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Shanghai city official Ding Bo said on Saturday (May 14) the number of patients in quarantine hospitals dropped to 50,000, one-fifth of the peak recorded last month. (Photo by Reuters) - A + A SHANGHAI/BEIJING (May 14): Shanghai was tightening its Covid-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin to ease restrictions, while Beijing kept fighting its much smaller but persistent outbreak. China's commercial hub of 25 million hoped to come out of its painful six-week-old lockdown later this month. Authorities on Saturday (May 14) were...