Asian stocks ended broadly lower on Monday as upbeat U.S. jobs data rekindled worries over aggressive policy tightening and parts of China's financial hub faced more rounds of mass testing to fight rising COID-19 infections.
Shanghai reported its first case of the highly infectious BA.5 omicron sub-variant on Sunday and warned of "very high" risks, raising fears about more lockdowns.
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