Anti-epidemic staff work at a lockdown community in Luohu district, Shenzhen on January 12, 2022. Photo: VCG

Beginning Wednesday, postal and express courier companies in Luohu District, Shenzhen city, South China's Guangdong Province, will suspend door-to door delivery of inbound parcels, in order to control recent resurgence of coronavirus cases there, an announcement released by Shenzhen Disease Prevention and Control Center said on Wednesday.

According to the announcement, the district has set up nine centralized pick-up points for disinfecting inbound parcels. Recipients are requested to go to the designated points, according to postal courier enterprises.

The government encourages residents to commission on-site staff to unpack and disinfect the parcels. If there are special circumstances that require individuals to handle their own parcel, recipients should take precautionary measures and health monitoring, according to local government regulations.

Luohu is the first district in Shenzhen to suspend door-to-door service of inbound parcels in 2022, in a bid to prevent imported COVID-19 cases from spreading.

On January 9, Shenzhen reported a confirmed COVID-19 patient who worked in Luohu district and lived at Longgang region. Later, some communities in Luohu announced a lockdown.

Since January 31, 16 confirmed cases have been reported in Shenzhen, which has spread to nine cities in Guangdong, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Central China's Hunan Province.

Baise city, Guangxi, announced a lockdown of the entire city starting on Monday after 98 people tested positive for COVID-19 in preliminary screening done on Sunday. The city detected the first confirmed case on Saturday on a patient who returned to the city from Shenzhen.

As of Tuesday, no new confirmed cases were identified in Shenzhen.

Global Times