Shanghai urges Covid-19 lockdown patience as case numbers drop for first time in 2 weeks TODAY


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SHANGHAI — Shanghai authorities on Thursday (March 31) appealed to residents to keep cooperating with tight curbs imposed to stop Covid-19 spreading, saying they recognised their frustrations as China's most populous city entered the fourth day of a two-stage lockdown. The plea for patience came as the Chinese financial hub, home to 26 million people, said its overall daily Covid caseload eased, for the first time in about two weeks, in an outbreak of the highly contagious Omicron variant that began about a month ago. It reported 5,298 locally transmitted new asymptomatic cases and 355 symptomatic cases for Wednesday, compared...