(Yicai Global) May 16 -- Shanghai has closed five of the city’s 10 major makeshift Covid-19 hospitals, as daily infection rates drop. Some 68 district-level temporary transfer stations have also been shut.

Shanghai reported 69 new Covid-19 cases and 869 asymptomatic infections yesterday, according to figures the local health authority released today. It was the first day since the beginning of the outbreak that daily infections fell below 1,000.

Shanghai Tongji Hospital staff wave goodbye to the last patients discharged from Tianhua Road Makeshift Hospital in the city’s Jinshan district on May 13.

Liang Aibin, head of Tianhua Road Makeshift Hospital and vice president of Tongji Hospital, seals the perimeter door of the temporary facility.

The bus carrying the last group of patients to leave Tianhua Road Makeshift Hospital gets disinfected.

A room in a school that had been converted into a provisional hospital gets disinfected on May 10.

Li Wenxiu (left), head of Hainan province’s medical aid team in Shanghai, and a staff member from Jiading District Health Commission affix a seal on the entrance of a makeshift hospital on May 4.

Editors: Dou Shicong, Futura Costaglione