(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) For the first time in the urban area of Wuhan, the overall risk was reduced to a low risk for two consecutive weeks without new confirmed cases
China News Agency, Wuhan, April 18 (Reporter Xu Jinbo) The Hubei Province New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters released an updated city and county risk rating assessment on the 18th. Compared with the assessment on the 15th, the urban area of Wuhan has been reduced to a low risk for the first time There are no middle and high-risk cities and counties in the province.
Data map: Recently, a checkpoint was set up at the door of the community in the sunshine area in front of Nan'an Street Station in Wuchang District. Duty officers are taking anti-epidemic measures such as disinfection, code scanning registration and temperature measurement for vehicles and residents entering and leaving the community. The picture shows the property personnel do a good job in the registration of vehicle access. Wang Fangshe
According to the State Council's criteria for delineating the risk of a new coronavirus infection pneumonia joint prevention and control mechanism, experts from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control organized an assessment. As of 24:00 on the 17th, there were 76 low-risk cities and counties in the province, and no medium or high-risk cities . Among the 13 urban areas in Wuhan, all are low-risk areas, and there are no medium- and high-risk areas. This is also the first time that the urban area of Wuhan has been reduced to low-risk for the first time since Hubei Province issued an epidemic risk rating assessment.
At the same time, the reporter learned from Wuhan City ’s New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Command that the city ’s new “zero report” was confirmed on March 18 for the first time. There have been no new reports for two consecutive weeks (April 4 to 17) Newly diagnosed cases of coronary pneumonia; the city was “unblocked” from April 8 to 24:00 on the 17th, and the number of close contacts who were tracked changed to asymptomatic infections was 0, and the number of asymptomatic infections was confirmed to be 0.
In addition, from March 18 to now, Wuhan has conducted a nucleic acid test on 627,000 people. Among them, various medical institutions started re-examination and re-examination physical examinations from March 28, and a total of 359,000 nucleic acid tests were carried out, with an average positive rate of 0.08%. At present, there are 53 nucleic acid testing institutions and 211 nucleic acid testing points in the city, with an average daily detection capacity of 46,000 person times, which can meet the needs of citizens who are willing to perform thorough inspections.
As of 24:00 on April 17, the number of critically ill patients still receiving treatment in Wuhan has dropped from 1779 on March 18 to 9; the number of critically ill patients has dropped from 443 on March 18 to 18. (Finish)