Shanghai using antigen testing to screen Covid-19 infections


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Shanghai has launched a new round of city-wide screening using both nucleic acid and antigen testing amid its latest efforts to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. The move announced on Saturday comes at a time when the city seeks to tame a surge in Covid-19 cases, Xinhua news agency reported. On Friday, the city reported 38 local confirmed Covid-19 cases and 2,231 asymptomatic carriers. Health authorities started using differentiated screening tactics in all the sub-districts and townships according to their risk levels to find all infections and stop the transmission in communities, said Wu Jinglei, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Health...