SHENZHEN: Authorities in China’s southern city of Shenzhen temporarily closed the world’s largest electronics market of Huaqiangbei and suspended support at 24 subway stations in a bet to curb an outbreak of COVID-19 on Monday (Aug 29).
Three key structures of the sprawling region, comprised of thousands of stalls selling microchips, telephone parts, and other parts to manufacturers, will stay closed until Sep 2 .
Local community officials confirmed Monday’s closure to Reuters, while three people working there mentioned building managers got told them to work at home.
The same established Shenzhen channels known as a halt in order to subway services in 24 stations in the central districts of Futian and Luohu.
On Mon, the tech hub of 18 million people reported nine symptomatic and 2 asymptomatic cases from testing the previous day time.