Shijiazhuang steps up anti-COVID measures

A large-scale transfer of thousands of people to centralized quarantine facilities is taking place in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, as the local government ramps up efforts to further strengthen its measures against the outbreak.

On Wednesday afternoon, a woman in her 50s strolled in a yard at a vocational school in Shijiazhuang holding a baby covered by a pink blanket, waiting to move into their quarantine facility.

The woman, from Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, the worst-hit region in the current COVID-19 outbreak in Hebei, had just been transferred to the facility.