China has reported more local symptomatic Covid-19 cases so far this year than it recorded in all of 2021, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant triggers outbreaks from Shanghai to Shenzhen.

Mainland China reported 1,337 new domestically transmitted Covid cases with confirmed symptoms yesterday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said.

That brought the total this year to more than 9,000, compared with 8,378 in 2021,according to Reuters calculations. In the past week, new Covid cases have been reported in Beijing and the financial hub of Shanghai - China's most populous cities - as well as in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang along the coast.

While the number of infections is small compared with caseloads elsewhere in the world, the rapid rate of increase has activated China's dynamic zero Covid policy, which mandates that infections are quickly identified and contained.

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