<span style="color: #222222;">China's biggest city Shanghai on Tuesday reported nearly 4500 domestically transmitted infections, mostly asymptomatic, a new record amid this wave of Omicron outbreak since March in the city.<br />''<br />''The city reported a record nearly 2700 cases on Sunday. On Monday, it reported nearly 3,500 new cases. Shanghai initially attempted different strategies to avoid a complete lockdown but suddenly changed course from its previous piecemeal approach and again decided on Sunday night to put the entire city of 24 million in two-phase lockdown.<br />''<br />''The Shanghai Stock Exchange remains in operation. State media quoting economists reported, this new COVID19 wave in Shanghai could cut the city's GDP growth by 0.5 percent in the first and second quarters compared to a year ago.<br />''<br />''The total local infections of COVID19 in Shanghai have surged to 19,960 over 17 days since March 13 when the daily number of asymptomatic cases started to remain above 100.<br />''China's National Health Commission on Monday reported more than 6400 new COVID-19 cases with cases increasing substantially everyday giving China's COVID policy its toughest test since its first outbreak in Wuhan.</span><br />