HONG KONG -- After midnight on Sept. 18, hundreds of residents of China's southwestern city of Guiyang were dressed in protective hazmat suits and loaded onto multiple buses. They were told they had to be quarantined elsewhere as the facilities within the city were full.
A medical worker in Shanghai's Lujiazui financial district, just after the city's lockdown was lifted in early June. China's anti-COVID measures remain among the world's strictest. © Reuters
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