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Some large cities in China have carried out strict measures to prevent and control the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province has effectively curbed transmission in a short period of time when the city was hit by a wave of the epidemic in March.

Lu Hongzhou, head of the city's virus control expert panel, recently shared Shenzhen's experience in a recent interview with The Intellectual, a mobile new media platform.

Here are some excerpts.