SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s financial hub of Shanghai reported a record 5,656 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and 326 symptomatic cases for March 29, the city government said on its official WeChat account on Wednesday.
That compared with 4,381 new asymptomatic cases and 96 new cases with symptoms reported a day earlier.
Shanghai on Sunday announced a two-stage lockdown of the city of 26 million people to carry out COVID-19 testing.
(Reporting by Brenda Goh and Wang Jing; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
