China News Service, Shanghai, April 30 (Reporter Chen Jing) At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held on the 30th, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that since the current round of the epidemic in Shanghai, the number of positive infections The number of positive infections has increased rapidly, and more than 570,000 positive infections have been reported so far.
On the 29th, Shanghai added 1,249 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 8,932 local asymptomatic infections.
Confirmed cases are either found in closed-loop isolation and control, or returned by local asymptomatic infections; local asymptomatic infections are all found in closed-loop isolation and control.
On the same day, 47 new local deaths were reported in Shanghai, with an average age of 82.4 years old. They had a variety of serious organ diseases or tumors, and the direct cause of death was an underlying disease.
As of 24:00 on April 29, 356 severe patients and 57 critically ill patients were treated in designated medical institutions.
Zhao Dandan said that "receiving as much as possible" for positive infections is the most effective way to cut off the source of infection as soon as possible, block community transmission, and control the spread of the epidemic.
Shanghai has made every effort to promote the construction of designated hospitals, expanding the admission capacity of 8 city-level designated hospitals, and building 32 regional designated hospitals with a capacity of 23,000 beds.
At the same time, Shanghai has continued to expand the treatment scale of Fangcang shelter hospitals, and renovated a number of public buildings with better facilities and equipment such as gymnasiums and exhibition centers as Fangcang shelter hospitals, which are used for centralized isolation and medical observation of asymptomatic infections and mild cases.
Zhao Dandan said that at present, there are about 300,000 open beds in the city and district makeshift hospitals.
According to statistics, in the past 6 days, 85,832 new positive cases were reported in Shanghai, and 131,030 were discharged from the hospital.
Zhao Dandan said that in the next step, Shanghai will make further research and judgments based on the development of the epidemic, and dynamically adjust the setting and operation of designated hospitals and makeshift hospitals according to the principles of classification and graded treatment, so that patients who need hospitalization can receive timely and effective medical treatment.
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