COVID-19 Outbreak Spreading in China’s Guangdong Province, Vaccine Shortages Reported

Official reports are indicating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, is spreading in Guangzhou after an initial case of local transmission was reported last week in the city of 15.3 million people. Meanwhile, infections have also appeared in the nearby megacity of Shenzhen in China’s southern coastal province of Guangdong.

The reports have triggered mass testings in the government district of Guangzhou, as more neighborhoods are assigned to be medium-risk areas, and residents rush to get vaccinated, causing a temporary vaccine shortage across the city. Officials have claimed that the source of this round of outbreak in the province is still unknown, while some netizens suspect that communist party officials are covering up the truth.

On May 27, local authorities reported nine more locally transmitted cases across two districts in Guangzhou city, all infected with the more deadly Indian variant of the virus. Eight are in Liwan District, where the first local case in the outbreak was reported—a 75-year-old woman surnamed Guo. The ninth case is in Haizhu District. They had all come into contact with Guo.

According to the official announcement, the cluster is related to a dim sum restaurant called “Another Dim Sum Place” in Liwan district, where Guo and some of the patients dined on the same morning.

Meanwhile, five cases have been reported in Shenzhen. The patients were all employees for the same company, and all were infected with the UK variant of the virus, according to official reports.

On May 26, authorities in Guangzhou upgraded the risk rating for the eastern Heyuan community in Liwan to a medium-risk area, and ordered all 1.23 million residents in Liwan district get tested within two days.

My understanding is that the vaccine has been administered to a majority of the population. We think it was the SinoVax.

How accepting are the residents?
She translated a CCP government ‘notice’ for us. Roughly translates, in part, to “we are scheduled to carry out mandatory testing for all residents in the district from May 26 and 27... Failure to participate in the testing will cause a lot of ‘inconvenience’ to your life”

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