China News Service, Shanghai, March 31 (Reporter Chen Jing) At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held on the 31st, Ma Chunlei, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and secretary-general of the municipal government, said that today, Pudong, The round of nucleic acid screening in Punan and adjacent areas is coming to an end. Based on the screening results, Shanghai will fully listen to the opinions of the national expert group, and scientifically and reasonably determine the control and unblocking plan.
From April 1, nucleic acid screening in Puxi will be fully launched.
Ma Chunlei said that this batch involves more people, reaching 16 million people, with a wider scope of control, involving 12 districts and more complex situations.
He pointed out: "We will make every effort to speed up nucleic acid screening."
Ma Chunlei said that since March this year, affected by multiple factors, the local epidemic situation in Shanghai has shown a rapid development trend, and the epidemic prevention and control is facing the most severe challenge since normalization.
In recent days, the number of infected people has continued to rise, and the epidemic has spread widely in Pudong and other areas. If strict control is not implemented, there will be potential risks of outbreaks. The epidemic situation is very complicated, and the task of prevention and control is extremely arduous.
Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that on the 30th, Shanghai added 355 new confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia (mild) and 5,298 asymptomatic infections.
329 confirmed cases and 821 asymptomatic infections were found in the screening of relevant risk groups.
Ma Chunlei pointed out: "In the face of the highly contagious and hidden Omicron mutant strain, we have insufficient knowledge; we are not sufficiently prepared for the substantial increase in the number of infected people; at the same time, some prevention and control measures have been implemented. It is not in place, the implementation is not in place, and the living security of the people in some closed and controlled areas is not thoughtful enough. We sincerely accept everyone's criticism and are working hard to improve."
It is reported that Shanghai is carrying out a new round of nucleic acid screening in two batches with the Huangpu River as the boundary.
On the basis of the previous rounds of nucleic acid screening work, since March 28, a new round of nucleic acid screening work in Pudong, Punan and adjacent areas has been carried out rapidly, and the overall social situation has been stable.
Ma Chunlei pointed out that in response to the problems in the previous rounds of nucleic acid screening, Shanghai has strengthened the command mechanism, and newly established 6 special work classes, including the construction of isolation and treatment places, the guarantee of living materials, and the response to people's demands.
Shanghai is optimizing the organization of nucleic acid testing, strictly preventing crowd gathering and cross-infection, and including "prone to missed" groups into territorial management, striving to do all the tests that should be done.
At the same time, Shanghai is constantly speeding up the transfer and isolation of infected people, minimizing the time that infected people stay in the community as much as possible, and striving to manage and isolate them.
In addition, Shanghai is also strengthening the reserves of various capacity resources such as nucleic acid testing, isolation housing, medical treatment beds, new therapeutic drugs and antigen detection reagents.
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