Shanghai to ease lockdown after latest mass testing

 China's largest city of Shanghai will soon begin lifting lockdown in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of COVID-19 testing.  The fresh round of testing comes as the city reported about 23,000 cases on Saturday, most of them asymptomatic.

Shanghai, with a population of 26 million, have been under lockdown since March 28. The city has built over 100 makeshift hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients with over 160,000 beds. China is facing one of its worst local outbreaks since the pandemic began.

It is one of the only countries sticking to a "zero COVID" policy, taking drastic measures such as lockdowns and mass testing to identify and isolate every single case.