(Shanghai War Epidemic Record) Three new deaths in Shanghai were directly caused by underlying diseases
China News Service, Shanghai, April 18 (Reporter Chen Jing) At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held on the 18th, Wu Qianyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that on the 17th, Shanghai added a new 2,417 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 19,831 local asymptomatic infections, with 3 new deaths.
The dead cases are all elderly people, two women and one man, aged 89 and 91. They had severe underlying diseases such as acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, hypertension, and cerebral infarction sequelae, and none of them had been vaccinated against the new coronary pneumonia virus.
After they were admitted to the hospital, their condition worsened, and the rescue failed and they died. The direct cause of death was caused by the underlying disease.
Wu Qianyu introduced that at present, there are 16 severe patients receiving treatment in designated medical institutions.
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