Shanghai Covid cases top 26,000 as Guangzhou shuts schools


In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the first group of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 leave a makeshift hospital converted from Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Centre of International Sourcing in Shanghai on April 9, 2022. - AP

SHANGHAI (Bloomberg): Shanghai recorded more than 26,000 new Covid infections as China’s largest documented outbreak continues to spread despite an extended lockdown of the city’s 25 million people.

There were 26,087 infections reported in the Chinese financial hub on Sunday (April 10), an all-time high. About 95% of the cases were among people already under isolation, data from the municipal government shows. The tally has climbed from 9,006 cases on April 3.

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