Shanghai continues strict Covid-19 measures despite falling cases

HONG KONG — Shanghai health authorities have unveiled an aggressive new Covid-19 containment plan despite a steady decline in the number of new cases, indicating China’s financial capital is still a long way from claiming victory over the country’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic to explain the pandemic.

Shanghai will add more quarantine hospital beds and move all Covid-19 positive patients and their close contacts to quarantine centers, according to a nine-point action plan announced just before midnight on Thursday. The plan called for treating both Covid-19 patients and close contacts with traditional Chinese medicine without specifying other treatments.