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Shanghai Disney Resort to close as China battles Covid outbreak

China is fighting its biggest wave of locally transmitted Covid cases since it contained the initial outbreak centred on Wuhan in 2020.

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This photo taken on Oct 31, 2021 shows medical personnel preparing to test visitors for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Disneyland in Shanghai. Shanghai has shut schools and launched a city-wide testing programme that has seen dozens of residential compounds sealed off for at least 48 hours. Photo: AFP
This photo taken on Oct 31, 2021 shows medical personnel preparing to test visitors for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Disneyland in Shanghai. Shanghai has shut schools and launched a city-wide testing programme that has seen dozens of residential compounds sealed off for at least 48 hours. Photo: AFP

China’s financial hub of Shanghai reported on Monday a record daily surge in local Covid-19 infections as authorities scrambled to test residents and rein in the Omicron variant, while the Disney resort closed until further notice.

Shanghai reported 24 new domestically transmitted Covid cases with confirmed symptoms for Sunday and another 734 local asymptomatic infections, official data showed on Monday.

It is the fourth consecutive day of increase in Shanghai’s local asymptomatic infections.

Although its tally of infections is tiny by global standards, Shanghai has quickly followed China’s policy of “dynamic clearance”, shutting schools and testing residential compounds in the effort to limit the spread of the virus.

The Shanghai Disney Resort will close from Monday until further notice, officials said on Sunday, citing the Covid-19 situation.

Including Shanghai infections, mainland China reported a total of 1,947 new locally transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms on Sunday, data from the National Health Commission showed, up from 1,656 a day earlier.

The number of new local asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, stood at 2,384 up from 2,177 a day earlier. The death toll was unchanged at 4,638, with no new deaths.

By Sunday, mainland China had reported 132,226 cases with confirmed symptoms, both among locals and arrivals from outside.

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