Shanghai finds 6,000 new Covid-19 infections as financial hub’s caseload grows

Shanghai reported almost 6,000 new local Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, as the financial hub’s outbreak continued to spread. The municipality, which on Monday began a partial lockdown, announced 5,982 new local cases – its highest tally of this outbreak. They comprised 326 symptomatic and 5,656 asymptomatic infections. Authorities in the city of 25 million people said at the weekend that a two-phase lockdown would be enforced. It represented a U-turn days after officials rejected the idea of…

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