Foshan authorities implement new controls to track cases, while Fujian cities ask people returning from Guangdong to monitor symptoms.

Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong visits Foshan in Guangdong province as number of cases of mosquito-borne disease nears 5,000.

Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong calls on manufacturing hub in southern Guangdong province to strictly follow ‘port health quarantine measures’.

The uptick in cases have prompted measures that are being compared to those taken during the pandemic.

Foshan authorities implement new controls to track cases, while Fujian cities ask people returning from Guangdong to monitor symptoms.

The authorities are inspecting homes, tracking purchases of fever medicines and deploying drones as they urge people to join an eradication campaign that echoes Covid measures.

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