Despite China’s dynamic zero-covid policy, the country is struggling to contain the recent coronavirus flare-ups. China’s financial hub of Shanghai city is entirely under lockdown after the authorities last Monday imposed a two-stage lockdown.

Shanghai reported 8,581 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and 425 symptomatic cases on April 3. That compared with 7,788 new asymptomatic cases and 438 new cases with symptoms reported a day earlier.

China's armed forces PLA has sent a health and logistics team consisting of over 2,000 people to Shanghai on Sunday evening to support covid prevention and control work.

Adding to China’s misery, the state media reported a case infected with a new subtype of the omicron variant after the country recorded 13,000 new infections.

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