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Shaoxing company Zhende Medical helps transport medical supplies. [Photo by Fu Caiyi/zjol.com.cn]]

Companies in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province have been working overtime to support the city's fight against the latest COVID-19 outbreak, local media reported on Dec 20.

Local companies including Fuqing Medical Products Co, Zhende Medical, and Zhejiang Zhenyuan have organized volunteer teams led by Party members to aid the cause.

Shaoxing, the hardest-hit city in the province, reported 75 new cases and one asymptomatic carrier on Friday. It added the city's total number of confirmed cases to 329 plus two asymptomatic cases.

Wang Hesheng, vice-minister of the National Health Commission, said in Shangyu on Thursday night that large-scale nucleic acid testing is vital to pinpoint and contain the sources of infection and cut off the channels of transmission in Shaoxing, local media reported on Friday.

Meanwhile community infections and the spread of COVID-19 cases are expected to be fully recorded by Monday in Shangyu, said an official with the local health commission.