(Yicai Global) April 5 -- Shanghai has launched a new round of city-wide Covid-19 nucleic acid testing yesterday to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

The megacity yesterday reported 268 new domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases and 13,086 asymptomatic infections, local health authorities said today. Over 25 million people have involved in the new round testing so far, it added.

Two volunteers at a community in southern Shanghai’s Minhang district are checking the residents’ list before starting the nucleic acid testing yesterday morning.

A volunteer wrote on the back of his protective suit that residents should keep two meters distance between each other while in line to take the Covid-19 test to avoid cross-infection.

A medical practitioner takes a nucleic acid sample from a resident.

Residents of a community in Shanghai’s Hongkou district line up two meters apart from each other to take the Covid-19 test yesterday. Medical workers and volunteers with white protective suits help to assure the process is carried out smoothly.

Two volunteers help an old lady with mobility problems to go take the nucleic acid test.

Editor: Futura Costaglione