Staff members pack free meals for residents at a residential area under temporary lockdown due to resurgence of COVID-19 in Chengguan district of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu province, Oct 25, 2021. (FAN PEISHEN / XINHUA)
LANZHOU – A total of 34 residential compounds in northwest China's Gansu province had been put under closed-off management as of Thursday due to the emergence of COVID-19 cases, local authorities said Friday.
The communities are scattered in the cities of Lanzhou, Zhangye, Jiayuguan and Longnan, said Liang Chaoyang, deputy head of Gansu's COVID-19 prevention and control leading group office.
Residents in areas under closed-off management should be under strict home quarantine and stay indoors.
The province had collected more than 26 million samples in mass nucleic acid testing by Thursday to screen COVID-19 infections.
Nearly 548,600 volunteers have joined the fight against the epidemic.
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From Oct 18 to 28, Gansu had logged 75 local confirmed cases in the latest COVID-19 resurgence.