Beijing<\/a> might be able to start winding down \u201czero COVID” in mid-2023 but needs to vaccinate tens of millions of elderly people before controls on foreign visitors coming into China end.<\/p>\nNationwide, people who want to enter supermarkets and other public buildings are required to show negative results of a virus test taken as often as once a day. That allows authorities to spot infections in people with no symptoms.<\/p>\n
Guangzhou, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Hong Kong, shut down schools and bus and subway service across much of the city as case numbers rose over the past week. Flights to the Chinese capital, Beijing, and other major cities have been canceled.<\/p>\n
In the southwest, the industrial city of Chongqing closed schools in its Beibei district, which has 840,000 people. Residents were barred from leaving a series of apartment compounds in its Yubei district but the city gave no indication how many were affected.<\/p>\n
Public frustration and complaints that some people are left without access to food or medicine have boiled over into protests and clashes with local officials in some areas.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, mass testing also was being carried out Saturday in eight districts with a total of 6.6 million people in the central city of Zhengzhou.<\/p>\n
Access to an industrial zone of Zhengzhou that is home to the world\u2019s biggest iPhone factory was suspended last week following outbreaks. Apple Inc. warned deliveries of its new iPhone 14 model would be delayed.<\/p>\n
Despite efforts to ease damage to the world\u2019s second-largest economy, forecasters say business and consumer activity is weakening after growth rebounded to 3.9% over a year earlier in the three months ending in September from the first half\u2019s 2.2%.<\/p>\n
Economists have cut their forecast of China\u2019s annual economic growth to as low as 3%, which would be among the lowest in decades.<\/p>\n
President Xi Jinping\u2019s government has refused to import foreign vaccines and defied requests to release more information about the source of the virus, which was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019.<\/p>\n
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