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, described how panic had set in among locals in his area now, compared to days earlier when the local outbreak was not too much of a concern, in an interview with the Chinese-language Epoch Times on June 5. Guangzhou is a port city in southern China’s Guangdong Province. Locals have cleaned vegetables and other staples off the shelves at local markets, Chen said, leaving him with few options when he went there. 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 the result of …