Per AP: China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou to build quarantine facilities for nearly 250,000 people to fight Covid.
Guangzhou has a population of 13 million people. In ealy october, it accounted for 40% of cases nationwide.
Guangzhou will add 246,407 beds, including 132,015 in hospital isolation wards and 114,392 for people who are infected but have no symptoms, the city government said.
Economists and health experts have said “zero COVID” might stay in place for up to another year because the government needs to vaccinate millions of elderly people before it can lift curbs that keep most foreign visitors out of China.