Cases across Guangdong Province...

• 9,431 confirmed cases in throughout the province

• Guangzhou 9,244

• Shenzhen 12

• Zhuhai 10
  

• Foshan 30

• Shaoguan 2

• Huizhou 4

• Zhongshan 1

• Jiangmen 3

• Yangjiang 5,

• Zhanjiang 30

• Zhaoqing 35

• Qingyuan 3

• Yunfu 1

• Meizhou 2

• Dongguan 32

• Chaozhou 1

• Jieyang 16 

240,000 beds prepared in Guangzhou...

Guangzhou reported 9,244 new cases of COVID-19 this morning, Friday, November 18, a jump of 483 from yesterday's 8,761.

All of the symptomatic cases (255) were in some form of quarantine. Only 16 of the 8,989 were found outside of quarantine (low-risk areas and community screening). 

In response to the ongoing outbreak, the city has upped its makeshift hospital and centralized quarantine zones quota, with a whopping 246,407 beds planned for the isolation and medical observation of asymptomatic cases, Global Times reports. 

According to the Guangzhou Municipal Government, 67,399 beds have been finished so far.

China COVID hot spots...

Looking to get out of Guangdong?

Below is a list of COVID-19 cases by region as reported yesterday, locally transmitted and asymptomatic combined – you may wish to avoid those nearer the top!

• 9,431 Guangdong

• 4,666 Chongqing

• 1,287 Inner Mongolia

• 501 Sichuan

• 1,687 Henan

• 466 Beijing

• 658 Shaanxi 

• 411 Shanxi

• 168 Yunnan

• 965 Xinjiang

• 142 Jiangsu

• 39 Guizhou

• 50 Zhejiang

• 322 Heilongjiang

• 23 Fujian 

• 148 Shandong

• 575 Qinghai

• 1568 Gansu

• 29 Shanghai

• 16 Tibet

• 97 Tianjin

• 132 Hunan

• 328 Hebei

• 147 Hubei

• 9 Hainan

• 24 Liaoning

• 52 Anhui

• 56 Guangxi

• 72 Jilin

• 28 Ningxia

• 15 Jiangxi

The total cases recorded in China yesterday was 25,129 up 1,997 from the previous day's 23,132.

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