Shanghai official rules out need for COVID lockdown at the moment

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's financial hub of Shanghai is not under lockdown, and does not need one "at the moment" to minimise the disruption to people's daily lives from the COVID-19 outbreak, state television quoted a city government official as saying.

Although its cases are few by global standards, Shanghai is battling its worst flare-up of infections since China reined in, early in 2020, its first outbreak emerging from the central city of Wuhan.

(Reporting by Roxanne Liu and Ryan Woo; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)