2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak

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COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai (2022)
Beds at Shanghai Expo Exhibition Hall during Shanghai 2022 COVID-19 pandemic
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Shanghai and other cities in China
Index case	February 28, 2022[1]
Date	February 28, 2022 – August 7, 2022[2] (5 months, 1 week and 3 days ago)
Confirmed cases	63,516[3][a] (as of July 21, 24:00)
Severe cases	318 + 52 "critical" (as of April 28, 24:00)
Recovered	26,411 + 317,060 asymptomatic (as of April 28 24:00)[b]
Deaths	337 (as of April 28, 24:00)
Government website
wsjkw.sh.gov.cn/yqfk2020/

A COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Shanghai, China began on February 28, 2022,^[1] and ended on August 7, 2022.^[2] The outbreak was caused by the Omicron variant and became the most widespread in Shanghai since the pandemic began two years prior.^[7] Authorities responded with mass COVID-19 testing and a strict lockdown of the city in an effort to uphold China's zero-COVID policy;^[8] the latter marked the largest one in the country since the lockdown of Hubei in early 2020.^[9] The outbreak caused substantial economic and social disruption across Shanghai with consequences felt elsewhere, and led to the spread of COVID-19 to other parts of China, including Beijing, Guangdong, and Hunan.

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