Shanghai daily Covid-19 infections halve to below 1500 cases
Source: Published:2022-05-12 Hist:
Shanghai’s daily Covid-19 infections halve to below 1,500 cases, raising hopes that the end may be in sight for city’s lockdownNew cases fell 50.7 per cent to an 18-day low of 1,487 infections in the past 24 hours, while the number of patients showing symptoms declined by 2.6 per cent to 228.
As many as 612,500 people in the city of 25 million residents have caught the disease since March 1, most of them asymptomatic.
New Covid-19 cases in Shanghai halved overnight, staying below five digits for the 13th straight day, as innumerable rounds of mass tests raised hopes that the current outbreak may be nearing its end, almost six weeks after sending China’s commercial hub into lockdown.
New cases fell 50.7 per cent to an 18-day low of 1,487 infections in the past 24 hours, while the number of patients showing symptoms declined by 2.6 per cent to 228, with seven deaths, according to data released on Wednesday.
