Shanghai Hits a New High in Daily Covid Cases

What’s new: Shanghai hit a new high in its local Covid-19 cases on Friday, as the municipality battles its worst-ever outbreak which authorities said is a result of the highly infectious and hard-to-identify omicron BA.2 subvariant.

On Friday, the Asian financial hub reported 38 confirmed local infections and 2,231 asymptomatic cases. More than half of the cases were found in those already in quarantine.