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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Liz Lee and Bernard Orr

China's Guangzhou brings back mass testing to fight city's worst COVID outbreak

A trader moves goods through the Guotai Business City trading centre in Guangzhou's Sanyuanli district, following the ease of restrictions on trade buildings in the city, after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Guangdong province, China June 17, 2020. REUTERS/David Kirton/Files

Millions of residents of China's southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou were told on Wednesday to get tested for COVID-19, as infections topped two thousand for two days running in the city's worst outbreak so far.

As local cases across China reached their highest level since April 30, authorities announced on social media that five districts representing more than half Guangzhou's population of almost 19 million would need to undergo mass testing.

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