Original title: Shanghai newly confirmed 3 new cases of new coronary pneumonia in two places upgraded to medium-risk areas
China News Service, August 21 (Reporter Chen Jing) At a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai on the 21st, Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that he was responding to the 2 confirmed cases on the 20th. During the overnight investigation of close contacts who implemented centralized quarantine and observation, on the 21st, 3 cases of new coronary pneumonia virus nucleic acid test positive were found in Shanghai.
All 3 cases were diagnosed as confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia (mild) and have been transferred to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center for isolation and treatment. After research and decision by the Office of the Leading Group for Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic of Shanghai, the above-mentioned cases live in Qianhuiyuanyi Village, Lane 280, Qianhui Road, Zhuqiao Town, Pudong New Area, and Zhuheyuan North, Lane 1000, Qianhui Road, Zhuqiao Town, Pudong New Area. The district is classified as a medium-risk area, and the risk level of other areas in Shanghai remains unchanged.
Today, all 3 cases were operators of overseas cargo planes at Pudong International Airport. The two 45-year-old men in the case are colleagues of the confirmed case 2 on August 20; there is also a 45-year-old male case who is a close contact of one of the above-mentioned confirmed cases on the 21st. The above 3 cases were all vaccinated against the new crown vaccine.
A total of 5 confirmed cases involving Pudong Airport reported on the 20th and 21st have been isolated and treated at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. Wu Jinglei said that the local case confirmed on the 2nd was cured and discharged on the 20th.
It is reported that as of 10 o’clock today, a total of 120 close contacts in Shanghai have been investigated for the local epidemic in Pudong. All of them have been quarantined. Three of them have tested positive for nucleic acid, which are the cases 3, 4, and 5 mentioned above. The nucleic acid test results of the remaining 117 people were negative; a total of 729 people who were closely connected in this city were investigated, all of which have been quarantined, and the nucleic acid test results were all negative; a total of 74,879 people were screened in this city, of which 74,639 The human nucleic acid test result is negative, and the rest are being tested.
At present, the staff has completed the detection of 939 items and environmental samples in relevant places, of which 14 samples have a positive nucleic acid test result: 8 samples are environmental samples in the rooms of the airport’s centralized residential area, and 7 of these 8 samples are in one sample. In the room of the confirmed person, one was in the room of a close person; the remaining 6 positive samples were environmental samples from the home of a confirmed person. Except for the above-mentioned positive samples, the remaining test results were all negative.
Ning Guang, Dean of Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, said that Shanghai, as a super-large city, is also an important port city in China. With the intensive exchange of people and goods at home and abroad, the pressure of “external defense import and internal defense rebound” is particularly obvious. . He said that it is necessary to continue to focus on epidemic monitoring and risk assessment, and continue to promote vaccination. When there are no contraindications to vaccination, try to plant everything as necessary, strengthen the “human, material, and environmental protection” at the port, and implement medical treatment. Institutional epidemic prevention and control measures and requirements. (Finish)
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