Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, April 20 (Reporters Yuan Quan, Hu Jiefei) At the Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference held on the 20th, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission stated that the epidemic has shown a downward trend in recent days. The number of streets and towns reporting more than 100 positive infections has decreased for 3 consecutive days, the spread of the epidemic in the community has been effectively curbed, and Jinshan District and Chongming District have achieved the goal of zero social coverage on the first day.
According to reports, the epidemic situation in 5 districts including Pudong, Minhang, Songjiang, Qingpu and Putuo has shown a continuous downward trend in the past 3 days; the epidemic situation in 6 districts including Xuhui, Yangpu, Hongkou, Changning, Baoshan and Jiading is generally in a state of platform fluctuation; the epidemic situation in Huangpu District is still The epidemic situation in Jing’an District has slowed down; the epidemic situation in Fengxian, Jinshan and Chongming continues to be low.
On April 19, Shanghai dynamically adjusted the “three districts” according to the results of the periodic screening, and designated 16,650 closed and controlled areas, involving 11.878 million people, a decrease of more than 4 million people compared with the first delineation before; There are 13,304 control areas, involving 4.48 million people, an increase of more than 2 million people; 28,075 prevention areas, involving 7.856 million people, an increase of more than 2 million people.
On the 19th, 7 new local deaths were reported in Shanghai, including 2 people under the age of 60, combined with advanced lung cancer, pleural effusion, and acute coronary syndrome. 5 people over 70 years old with underlying diseases such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, hypertension (very high risk), diabetes, uremia, cerebral infarction, and advanced pancreatic tumor. Two of them have been vaccinated against the new coronary pneumonia virus, and the rest have not been vaccinated. The above-mentioned 7 people’s condition worsened after admission, and they died after the rescue failed. The direct cause of death was all caused by the underlying disease.