(Yicai Global) March 14 -- Another 169 cases of Covid-19 were detected in Shanghai yesterday, the most ever in one day, as China's most populated city grapples with a new outbreak that started earlier this month.

Forty-one of these are confirmed locally transmitted cases and the other 128 are asymptomatic, according to the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, which calculates over a 24-hour period from midnight the day before to midnight that day.

The count includes two asymptomatic cases which turned into confirmed cases and 122 people who developed Covid-19 while in quarantine, the commission said. The rest were identified while testing high-risk groups.

The city government is calling on people not to travel unless absolutely necessary and has suspended some long-distance bus services. Everyone who comes to Shanghai must test negative within 48-hours before arrival.

Testing extends late into the night at a residential community in Shanghai’s Songjiang district.

Residents line up to be tested at a residential community along West Zhongshan Road in Xuhui district which was plunged into lockdown yesterday.

Chaos at Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital after it suspends outpatient and emergency services at its Lingang and Xiaoyangshan branches after cases of Covid-19 were discovered inside. The hospital is now carrying out screening and disinfection. No timetable has been set yet for its reopening.

Some patients on low-risk floors are discharged from Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital. They have tested negative and will stay in self-isolation at home and remain under medical observation.

Editor: Kim Taylor