SINGAPORE—The U.S. State Department ordered the departure of all nonemergency U.S. Consulate staff and their families from Shanghai as the city’s health authorities announced more than 23,000 new daily infections.
The “ordered departure,” which came just days after the State Department had given the green light for employees to leave voluntarily, “means that we are now mandating that certain employees depart Shanghai rather than making this decision voluntary,” a U.S. Embassy spokesman said in a statement Tuesday.
