China News Service, August 21 (Reporter Chen Jing) At a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai on the 21st, Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that he was responding to the 2 confirmed cases on the 20th. During the overnight investigation of close contacts who implemented centralized quarantine observation, on the 21st, 3 cases of new coronary pneumonia virus nucleic acid test positive were found in Shanghai.
All 3 cases were diagnosed as confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia (mild) and have been transferred to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center for isolation and treatment.
The office of the Leading Group for Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Shanghai has determined that the above-mentioned cases live in Qianhuiyuanyi Village, Lane 280, Qianhui Road, Zhuqiao Town, Pudong New Area, and Zhuheyuan North, Lane 1000, Qianhui Road, Zhuqiao Town, Pudong New Area. The district is classified as a medium-risk area, and the risk level of other areas in Shanghai remains unchanged.
Today, all three cases were operators of overseas cargo planes at Pudong International Airport.
The two 45-year-old males in the case are colleagues of the confirmed case 2 on August 20; there is also a 45-year-old male case who is a close contact of one of the above-mentioned confirmed cases on the 21st.
The three cases mentioned above were all vaccinated against the new crown vaccine.
A total of 5 confirmed cases involving Pudong Airport reported on the 20th and 21st have been treated in isolation at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center.
Wu Jinglei said that the local case confirmed on the 2nd was cured and discharged on the 20th.
It is reported that as of 10 o’clock today, a total of 120 close contacts in Shanghai have been investigated for this local epidemic in Pudong. All of them have been quarantined. Three of them have tested positive for nucleic acid, which is the above three cases, and the remaining 117 have been tested for nucleic acid. The result was negative; a total of 729 people who were closely connected in this city were investigated, all of which have been quarantined, and the nucleic acid test results were all negative; 74,879 people were screened in this city, of which 74,639 had a nucleic acid test result. Negative, the rest are being tested.
At present, the staff has completed the inspection of 939 items and environmental samples in relevant places, of which 14 samples have a positive nucleic acid test result: 8 samples are environmental samples in the rooms of the airport's centralized residential area, and 7 of these 8 samples are in one sample. In the room of the confirmed person, one was in the room of a close person; the remaining 6 positive samples were environmental samples from the home of a confirmed person.
Except for the above-mentioned positive samples, the remaining test results were all negative.
Ning Guang, Dean of Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, said that Shanghai, as a super large city, is also an important port city in China. With the intensive exchange of people and goods at home and abroad, the pressure of "external defense import and internal defense rebound" is particularly obvious. . He said that it is necessary to continue to focus on monitoring and risk assessment of the epidemic, continue to promote vaccination, and when there are no contraindications to vaccination, we should do everything possible, strengthen the "prevention of human, material and environment" at ports, and implement medical treatment. Institutional epidemic prevention and control measures and requirements. (End)