Two top-tiered hospitals in Shanghai — Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center and Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine — have suspended outpatient services in their downtown branches on Thursday for COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control reasons after two suspected COVID-19 cases were reported on Wednesday and Thursday at the two hospitals.

A Global Times reporter found on Thursday morning that the cancer center had been cordoned off, and the entire area surrounding the Renji Hospital, including residential compounds, had been put into lockdown, with medical staffers from the local center for disease control and prevention and epidemiological investigation personal working on site. Photos: Yang Hui/GT