Shanghai Covid Cases Top 13,000 as Millions Locked Down
- Case surge shows challenge in returning to Covid Zero goal
- Vice Premier urges to quicken quarantine facility construction
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Shanghai reported more than 13,000 daily Covid-19 cases for the first time, as a sweeping lockdown of its 25 million residents and mass testing uncovered an extensive spread of the highly infectious omicron variant.
The outbreak in the Chinese financial hub pushed the national total total to 16,412 local infections for Monday, the highest one-day figure recorded in the world’s second-largest economy during the pandemic -- clouding its growth outlook and threatening to disrupt the global supply chain.