BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s eastern financial hub Shanghai reported 20 new COVID-19 deaths on May 2, down from 32 a day earlier, the local government said on Tuesday.
The city reported 5,395 new local asymptomatic coronavirus cases on May 2, versus 6,606 a day earlier, the authority said in a statement.
Confirmed symptomatic cases stood at 274, sharply down from 727 in the previous day, it said.
(Reporting by Hallie Gu, Jenny Wang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Tom Hogue)
