Healthcare workers transfer the body of a deceased patient into a mortuary at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong on March 8. Bloomberg News Shanghai suspended in-person classes for all students up to middle school from Saturday, as the highly infectious omicron variant drives a Covid-19 outbreak at a scale not seen since the start of the pandemic in Wuhan. The nation’s daily caseload exceeded 1,000 for the first time in two years , ballooning from just over 300 cases a day in less than a week, and presenting a significant challenge to China’s zero-tolerance approach to the virus. Premier Li Keqiang said China would “continue to work to make our response more scientific and targeted.” Meanwhile, Hong Kong reported more than 29,000 new Covid cases on Friday, including 18,888 confirmed by nucleic acid test. That’s the lowest total since late-February, though the launch this week of a […]