INTERNATIONAL: China's financial hub of Shanghai on Monday ,March 21, has closed its Disney resort until further notice, as it reported a record daily surge in local COVID-19 infections with authorities scrambling to rein in the Omicron variant.

"Due to the current pandemic situation, Shanghai Disney Resort, including Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park will be temporarily closed from Monday, March 21, 2022,” it said in a statement.

Until recent weeks relatively unscathed by coronavirus, Shanghai reported 24 new domestically transmitted COVID cases with confirmed symptoms for Sunday,March 20 and 734 local asymptomatic infections, official data has showed on Monday.

It is the fourth consecutive day that Shanghai's local asymptomatic infections have increased.