More than 8,000 cases of a mosquito-borne virus have been reported in China , leading authorities to take preventative steps similar to those implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic .

The outbreak of chikungunya has focused largely on Foshan, a city of 10 million in China’s southern Guangdong province, near Hong Kong .

The disease causes fever and joint pain, with the young, older people and those with pre-existing medical conditions most at risk.

Chinese health officials have adopted a series of measures to contain the spread, threatening fines for people who fail to disperse standing water and even deploying drones to hunt down insect breeding grounds.

What is chikungunya?

Chikungunya is a disease caused by a virus of the same name, first identified in Tanzania in 1952.

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