(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Shenzhen sampled 83,000 copies for nucleic acid testing and found no new cases
China News Service, Shenzhen, August 16 (Zheng Xiaohong and Zhu Zuying) Luo Lexuan, director of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, said at a press conference on the 16th that as of 6 o'clock on August 16, Shenzhen had collected 83,413 nucleic acid samples. Including Shenzhen Hema Xiansheng 21 supermarket stores and 2 warehouses with 5,553 employees. Except for the two asymptomatic infections discovered on August 14, no new positive cases have been found. Regarding the external environment and food of the Hema Fresh Supermarket, 1,426 external environmental samples and 1,125 food samples have been collected, and the current results are all negative.
Liu Zhiyong, the mayor of Luohu District, Shenzhen, said that it is expected to complete all nucleic acid tests in Luohu District Shuibei IBC Hema fresh store, IBC shopping mall, residential communities around IBC shopping malls, office buildings, and merchants within three days. It is reported that since July 24, citizens who have been to the Shuibei IBC Hema Fresh Store can go to three designated locations for free nucleic acid testing. The Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission has mobilized 400 key nursing staff and 15 inspection and testing technicians to assist Luohu District to carry out nucleic acid testing. At present, there are 40 institutions in Shenzhen that provide nucleic acid testing services to citizens, and 52 medical institutions have set up fever clinics.
It is understood that there are 64 testing institutions in Shenzhen that can carry out nucleic acid testing, and the daily nucleic acid testing capacity can reach more than 120,000 copies. On this basis, Shenzhen also reserves the technical capacity of 500,000 to 1 million daily inspections. In addition, there are a total of more than 600 public health professionals in Shenzhen who can carry out epidemiological investigations. According to the needs of the epidemic, training will continue to be carried out for sampling, testing, and flow adjustment personnel.
According to Li Zhong, director of the Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration, the supervision team of the bureau has inspected 21 Hema fresh food stores in 6 districts of the city since the 14th, and confirmed that the meat products on site are all pre-packaged foods and have not been opened for bulk sale; Trace the source of the frozen food sold in the Hema Fresh Water Shell IBC store on July 31, August 1, and August 2, find out the buyers in these three days, and come to the door for inspection and killing; Shenzhen Hema Xiansheng stores are temporarily closed and online sales are suspended; all supermarkets in the city have stopped providing dine-in food in all business premises.
As of 24:00 on August 15, Shenzhen had reported a total of 465 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia. 3 cases are currently in hospital. (Finish)