On the morning of November 23, Shanghai held the 88th press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic to introduce the relevant situation of the city's epidemic prevention and control.

  Li Guohua, deputy head of Pudong New Area, introduced at the meeting that on November 22, Pudong New Area found two suspected cases of new coronary pneumonia when tracking and checking close contacts of confirmed cases.

One case is a colleague of Wu Moumou's confirmed case at the Western Freight Station of UPS Shanghai International Transit Center at Pudong Airport, and the other is the wife of a confirmed case Wang Mou at the Western Freight Station of UPS Shanghai International Transit Center at Pudong Airport.

The two persons mentioned above were tested by the municipal and district CDCs, and the results were all positive.

  Li Guohua said that after investigation, as of 8 o'clock on November 23, 55 close contacts of the confirmed cases Cao and Zhang had been traced. All quarantine and observation measures have been implemented and the first nucleic acid sampling has been completed. The test results are all Negative.

2,541 screening subjects have been checked, all nucleic acid samples have been completed, and the test results are all negative.

  Asked about the 5 newly confirmed cases in Shanghai since November 20, Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, revealed at the meeting that the 5 cases are all of the common type of new coronary pneumonia, and the overall situation is relatively stable.

  (Edited by Xu Yin, Kang Yuzhan, Zhou Jing)

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]