(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Shanghai: Multi-pronged efforts to curb the spread of the epidemic
China News Service, Shanghai, April 26 (Reporter Chen Jing) On the 26th, a press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai reported that on the 25th, Shanghai added 1,661 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 15,319 local cases of no Symptomatic infection.
18 confirmed cases and 199 local asymptomatic infections were found in nucleic acid screening of relevant risk groups.
Sun Xiaodong, deputy director of the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that although the epidemic situation is still fluctuating at a high level recently, the total number of new positive infections reported today has been further reduced from the number reported yesterday, reaching more than 2,000 cases, a decrease of 13%.
This is the sharpest decline since the epidemic began to decline.
More than 90% of the new positive infections were found during the period of closed control or centralized isolation.
Sun Xiaodong pointed out that the virus gene sequencing results of the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed that most of the new coronaviruses that caused this round of local epidemics were Omicron BA.2 and BA.2.2.
The main reason why the current epidemic continues to fluctuate at a high level is that some key areas and places such as old residential quarters in central urban areas, urban villages in urban-rural fringes, and large enterprises are difficult to control due to objective constraints. The relevant characteristics of the Chron variant strains are prone to cross-infection and clustered outbreaks.
Sun Xiaodong said that in response to the above difficulties, Shanghai has now carried out targeted tackling actions. By taking measures such as accelerating the transfer of close contacts, strengthening the screening of risk personnel, and cleaning and disinfecting the environment, a multi-pronged approach has been adopted to curb the spread of the epidemic.
Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, pointed out that Shanghai will strengthen transfer isolation, quickly transfer positive infected people for treatment, strengthen on-site flow investigation and investigation, and strive to achieve the transfer of all cases, clear daily settlement, and block the source of community infection.
Sun Xiaodong bluntly said that the occurrence and development of this wave of epidemics are completely in line with the characteristics of the Omicron mutants that humans have mastered, which is basically the same as that of other countries and regions at home and abroad. : The transmission speed is fast, the transmission power is strong, and the concealment is strong.
The expert explained: "In the early stage of this round of the epidemic, when we found positive infected people, the epidemic had actually spread hidden within a certain range, and then further gathered through wholesale markets, vegetable markets, collective units and other groups of people. The site spread rapidly until, within a relatively short period of time, there was further widespread community transmission leading to the current situation."
On the 25th, Shanghai added 52 local deaths.
Their average age is 83.1 years old, the youngest is 33 years old, and the oldest is 100 years old.
At present, there are 259 severe patients and 28 critically ill patients receiving treatment in designated medical institutions.
Zhao Dandan said that the 33-year-old death case was a male who died of sudden cardiac and respiratory arrest due to sudden cardiac and respiratory arrest, and was diagnosed as sudden cardiac death.
He has received 2 doses of the new coronary pneumonia virus vaccine.
The other 51 patients were complicated with multi-organ underlying diseases, and the causes of death were all underlying diseases.
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