China News Service, August 20 (Reporter Chen Jing) Shanghai held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on the 20th.

Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, revealed that on the 20th, the Pudong New Area CDC reported abnormal results of routine nucleic acid tests for 2 personnel working in the overseas cargo aircraft operation area of ​​Pudong Airport. After review by the municipal and district CDCs, their nucleic acid tests The result is positive.

　　Combining clinical and imaging findings and laboratory nucleic acid test results, the two were diagnosed as a new coronary pneumonia (mild) case after consultation with an expert group, and they have been transferred to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center for isolation and treatment.

　　According to the current epidemiological investigation, the two confirmed cases have no history of traveling and living in the past two weeks, and no connection between the case and the epidemic in other parts of the country has been found for the time being.

The disease control department here is stepping up to carry out gene sequencing.

　　It is reported that Case 1 is a foreign aviation mechanical engineer serving an overseas cargo plane at Pudong Airport. He is a male, Ethiopian national, 44 years old.

The home address is Longhuayuan Community, Lane 1049, Chuanhuan South Road, Chuansha New Town, Pudong New Area.

This case has been vaccinated with the new crown vaccine all the way, and the previous routine nucleic acid test results were all negative.

　　Case 2 is a 45-year-old male worker in the operation area of ​​an overseas cargo plane at Pudong Airport.

Now lives in Jinjiang Inn Donghai Town, the centralized management point of the airport.

This case has also been vaccinated with the new crown vaccine throughout, and the previous routine nucleic acid test results were all negative.

　　Wu Jinglei said that according to the current epidemiological investigation, the two confirmed cases had no history of traveling and living in the past two weeks, and no connection between the case and the epidemic in other parts of the country has been found for the time being.

The disease control department is stepping up to carry out gene sequencing.

　　As of 18:00 on August 20, Shanghai had investigated 47 close contacts of these two cases in the city, and centralized quarantine had been implemented.

Nucleic acid test results were all negative; 271 people who were closely connected in this city have been checked, and all have been quarantined, and nucleic acid test results have been negative; 40097 people have been checked in Shanghai, all of whom have been sampled. Among them, 8151 human nucleic acid test results are negative, and the rest are being tested.

According to reports, samples have been taken of items and environments in places related to cases, and 327 samples have been tested, all of which were negative.

　　The Office of the Leading Group for Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Shanghai has decided to list Longhuayuan Community at No. 1049 Chuanhuan South Road, Chuansha New Town, Pudong New Area, and Jinjiang Inn (Donghai Town Store), No. 798 Yanchao Road, Pudong New Area. For medium-risk areas, the risk levels of other areas in Shanghai remain unchanged.

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