More than two years after ending pandemic emergency procedures, China has revived some Covid-era health controls in the southern Guangdong province to prevent the spread of a painful mosquito-borne viral disease.
Recording the identities of people buying commonly used medicines, reinstating mass testing, requiring travel history reports and undertaking community-level disinfection are among measures put in place to check chikungunya, after a city in the industrial hub reported a rare but massive outbreak of the virus this summer.