(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Guangdong Zhuhai and Shenzhen added 5 and 1 confirmed cases respectively
China News Agency, Guangzhou, January 18 (Reporter Wang Jian Deng Yuanwen) On the 18th, Zhuhai, Guangdong reported 5 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, and Shenzhen reported 1 new confirmed case.
On the 18th, the Zhuhai City Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference informed that the city added 5 confirmed cases from 0:00 on the 17th to 9:00 on the 18th, including 2 men and 3 women. The cases belong to the same transmission chain, and the transmission chain is clear.
The 5 newly confirmed cases were all detected among close contacts under centralized management. The main activity area in recent days was Nanping Town, Xiangzhou District. One of the confirmed cases was a 1-year-old boy.
As of 9:00 on the 18th, a total of 17 confirmed cases and 1 asymptomatic infection in this round of epidemic in Zhuhai City have been isolated and treated in designated hospitals.
The city has completed the second round of nucleic acid testing on the 17th, completing nucleic acid sampling of 2.7687 million person-times, and the test results are all negative.
Lin Hancheng, a second-level inspector of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, said at a press conference held on the evening of the 18th that on the 18th, Shenzhen found 1 case of new coronary pneumonia during the routine testing of staff in high-risk positions in the closed-loop management of international crew members in hotels. confirmed cases.
The new female case is 32 years old. She is a cleaning staff member of the international crew staying in the hotel. She has been under closed-loop management for the past 14 days. Many routine nucleic acid tests were negative. On the 17th, the nucleic acid test was initially positive. The CDC's review was also positive, and it has been transferred to the emergency hospital of Shenzhen Third People's Hospital for isolation and treatment, and was diagnosed as a confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia (common type).
Since the outbreak of the epidemic on January 7, Shenzhen has reported a total of 18 cases.
The previously reported confirmed cases in Meizhou and Zhongshan belong to the same transmission chain as the cases in Zhuhai.
According to a report from the Office of the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters in Meizhou City on the 18th, Wuhua County, where the epidemic occurred, completed the first round of nucleic acid testing from the 16th to the 17th. A total of 739,000 samples were collected, and the results were all negative.
From the 17th to the 18th, Zhongshan City carried out the second round of nucleic acid testing for all employees in the city in two batches.
As of 15:00 on the 18th, more than 2.31 million people had been sampled in the first batch of 11 towns and streets, including Tanzhou Town, Sanxiang Town, and Banfu Town, and the results were all negative.
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