SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai has brought virus transmission outside quarantined areas down to zero in two city districts and the city’s COVID-19 outbreak is seeing a downward trend, a city official said on Wednesday.
The number of people categorised in the city’s highest-risk “sealed areas”, on whom the most stringent movements curbs on placed, has reduced significantly, Shanghai health official Wu Qianyu said at a daily press conference.
(Reporting by Brenda Goh and Ella Cao; Editing by Tom Hogue)