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China's tech hub Shenzhen to adopt tiered Covid measures on Monday

The city also announced a new round of Covid testing to stamp out the pandemic, after it reported 89 new locally transmitted Covid infections for Sept 3

Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs at a nucleic acid testing site at the Software Park in Nanshan district, following the coronavirus disease  outbreak in Shenzhen, Guangdong province
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Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs at a nucleic acid testing site at the Software Park in Nanshan district, following the coronavirus disease  outbreak in Shenzhen, Guangdong province (Photo: Reuters)

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China's southern tech hub of Shenzhen, which went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday for mass COVID-19 testing, said it will adopt tiered anti-virus restriction measures starting on Monday.

The city also announced a new round of COVID-19 testing, vowing to "marshal all available resources, mobilise all forces, and take all possible measures" to stamp out the pandemic, after Shenzhen reported 89 new locally transmitted COVID infections for Sept 3, compared with 87 a day earlier.

"Currently, the city's COVID situation is severe and complex. The number of new infections remains relatively high and community transmission risk still exists," Lin Hancheng, a

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