the southern chinese manufacturing hub guangzhou is the latest to see lockdowns amid a surge in covid cases adding to financial pressure that has disrupted global supply chains and sharply slowed growth in the worlds secondlargest economy the associated press reported residents in districts encompassing almost 5 million people have been ordered to stay home at least through sunday with one member of each family allowed out once per day to purchase necessities local authorities said wednesday the order came after the densely populated city of 13 million reported more than 2500 new cases over the previous 24 hours in the us known cases of covid are climbing again for the first time in a few months the daily average for new cases stood at 39578 on tuesday according to a new york times tracker up 5 versus two weeks ago the daily average for hospitalizations was up 3 at 27713 while the daily average for deaths is down 14 to 308 globally the confirmed case tally rose above 6335 million on wednesday according to data aggregated by johns hopkins while the death toll is above 660 million with the us leading the world with 978 million cases and 1072943 deaths