China is sending tens of millions of people into lockdown after a fourfold jump in cases in a week.
ABC News' Britt Clennett explores how Hong Kong is being hit by the omicron variant after two years of low case numbers and deaths, and how the region is attempting to fight the surge.HONG KONG -- China is facing its worst COVID crisis since early 2020, when the world first witnessed an entire population locked down to contain the coronavirus in Wuhan and its surrounding province.
Although record case numbers are testing the resilience of China’s no-tolerance approach, there is no sign the country is willing to pivot to ‘living with the virus."Workers set up beds to convert an exhibition centre into a makeshift hospital, following the COVID-19 outbreak in Changchun, Jilin province, China on March 12, 2022.
As a result, Apple supplier Foxconn has shut two of its plants in the area and relocated production elsewhere. “It seems the lockdowns will be shorter this time with more tracking, which means a short disruption of work and production," Tang said."If it ends up lasting for weeks it’s another issue, including inflation risks.”
Shanghai-based virologist Zhang Wenhong called the flare-up “the most difficult moment in the past two years” of China’s efforts to stamp out the virus. Shanghai has so far avoided a full-scale lockdown.
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