Shanghai’s Flareup Spreads as China Faces a New Covid Outbreak


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(Bloomberg) -- Covid-19 clusters have emerged in Shanghai and a neighboring city just as virus hotspots elsewhere in China recede, a sign the country’s fixation on continuing to eliminate all cases may become a protracted battle into the winter months. China detected four locally transmitted infections Friday in the financial hub of Shanghai and the northern province of Liaoning, according to the country’s National Health Commission. Three other cases, reportedly connected to the Shanghai infections, were found in Zhejiang’s provincial capital of Hangzhou and in a small city in Zhejiang, though none the infected developed symptoms. The new flareup comes...