On August 16, the Information Office of the People's Government of Jiangsu Province held the second press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Yangzhou to inform the relevant situation of the epidemic prevention and control.
Zhao Qinghong, the deputy mayor of Yangzhou, notified that as of 24:00 on August 15, a total of 247 confirmed cases in Yangzhou were treated at Yangzhou Third People's Hospital, and 295 confirmed cases were treated at Tangshan District of Nanjing Second Hospital.
At present, all patients are under full treatment, and a total of 10 people have been discharged from the hospital.
On July 27, after the first case of new coronary pneumonia was found to be positive in Yangzhou, the Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government deployed overnight and closed the main urban area on July 28.
On July 31, Yangzhou issued a notice to further strengthen the prevention and control of the epidemic, focusing on tightly building the "three protection circles" of the community, the main urban area, and the whole city.
Since August 1, various announcements have been issued successively, detailing strict residents' access control measures.
At present, Yangzhou nucleic acid detection targets are becoming more and more accurate, and it has become a screening of key areas and key populations.
On August 16, the main urban area of Yangzhou continued to conduct nucleic acid testing in key areas.
This is the third nucleic acid test in key areas of the main urban area after seven rounds of nucleic acid testing in the main urban area.
As of 24:00 on August 15th, 6 positive cases were detected that day, of which 5 cases were from quarantined persons and 1 case was screened in a closed and controlled community.
(Reporter Cui Jiaming, Ge Yong, Produced by Ge Yong)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]