2 negative COVID test results in 48 hours required when leaving city

Residents in Shenzhen are advised not to leave the city unless necessary. From today, those who have to leave must present the negative results of two nucleic acid tests taken within 48 hours, the city’s COVID prevention and control headquarters office said last night.

At a press conference held earlier yesterday, local health officials urged residents to report their travel history if they have been to two locations in Futian District during specific time periods recently, as the city is making every effort to cut off the transmission chain of its latest COVID-19 outbreak.

The city has recently detected abnormal nucleic acid test results of several citizens who have visited the Huaxing dance art center on the fourth floor of Dongyuan Building at No. 7, Dongyuan Road in Futian District (福田区东园路7号东园大厦四楼华星舞蹈艺术中心).

In order to quickly contain the spread of COVID, people who visited the Huaxing dance art center from Friday to Tuesday, and those who visited the Luoji casserole porridge restaurant at No. 15, Dongyuan Road in Futian between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday should immediately call the district’s epidemiological investigation center through phone numbers 0755-61200818 or 0755-61200632, according to the press conference.

Li Zhidong, director of the General Office of the Futian District Government, said that the district had immediately initiated emergency response, temporarily shut down the Dongyuan Building where the art center is located, and carried out environmental monitoring and disinfection at the center and its surroundings.

In addition, Futian has urged those who have recently stayed in Nanyuan Subdistrict for more than one hour and are currently not in the area to undergo nucleic acid tests.

Lai Jianhua, director of the General Office of the Luohu District Government, also made an appeal at yesterday’s press conference.

“Citizens who have visited Huaxing dance art center from Friday to Tuesday are requested to report through phone number 18924659940,” Lai said.

Lin Hancheng, a senior health official from the municipal health commission, reiterated the importance of proper mask-wearing, as it is an effective way to block the transmission of the Omicron BA.5 mutant strain.

Separately, Nanshan District’s anti-COVID authority issued a notice yesterday afternoon, saying that citizens who have been the municipal motor vehicles management office (No. 128, Longjing Road, Taoyuan Subdistrict, Nanshan) between Monday and Tuesday must report to their communities.

Meanwhile, these citizens should fill in personal information, cooperate with their communities to undergo a seven-day home quarantine and take nucleic acid tests on the first, second, third, fifth and seventh day, respectively.

Longgang District’s anti-COVID authority also made an announcement yesterday calling for residents to receive daily nucleic acid tests for four days and avoid going out until the results of the first nucleic acid test come out negative if they’ve recently been to these specific places during certain time periods.

Additionally, Yantian District designated low-, medium- and high-risk areas for COVID-19 in Shatoujiao and Haishan subdistricts yesterday, while strengthening COVID control measures in low- and medium-risk areas as well as at Zhong-ying Street for four days from yesterday to Saturday.

Residents wait for buses at a bus stop on Shennan Road near Huaqiangbei on Monday. The city has two out-of-service bus routes while another 217 bus routes have skipped stops. Sun Yuchen

Metro Line 8’s Shatoujiao, Haishan and Yantian Port West stations have suspended services starting 10 a.m. yesterday until further notice, bringing the number of temporarily closed Metro stations to 32, according to Shenzhen Metro.

Metro passengers are able to transfer at nine of the stations including Buji, Grand Theater, Science Museum, Huaqiang North, Tongxinling, Huaxin, Hongling, Bagualing and Hongling North stations.

The city reported nine locally transmitted confirmed COVID cases and two asymptomatic infections from 12:01 a.m. to 12 p.m. yesterday.