As COVID-19 outbreaks continue to worsen in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, there are signs that the local situation is much worse than Chinese authorities have admitted. Chen Xi (a pseudonym), a resident in Guangzhou’s Panyu district, says panic has set in among residents in his neighborhood of Guangzhou, a port city in southern China’s Guangdong Province. He said that’s a major change from just days ago when the local outbreak wasn’t thought to be much of a concern, he told the Chinese-language Epoch Times in an interview on June 5. Locals have emptied the shelves at local markets of vegetables and other staples, Chen said, which left him with few options. He added that all residents in his district were tested for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, on June 4. Chen said he was told not to leave his residential district until …