China News Service, May 9 (Xinhua) According to the "Shanghai Release" WeChat public account, at the press conference on Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control work held on the morning of May 9, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, introduced that yesterday, the Shanghai Municipal Committee . The daily meeting of the city government on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, which is held by the municipal government, emphasizes the need to strengthen the awareness of the problem, examine the work with a higher standard, find the problem in time, analyze the problem in depth, and solve the problem effectively.
The meeting deployed to further optimize the work of on-site flow adjustment and close connection determination. Scientific judgment cannot be simplified across the board; more efforts should be made in the traceability of flow adjustment, timely identify risk sources, and cut off community transmission; more patience and meticulous mass work should be done. , to understand the demands of the masses, grasp the actual situation, do everything possible to overcome difficulties, find ways to solve problems, and make greater efforts to win the defense of Shanghai.
Zhao Dandan introduced that on May 8, Shanghai added 322 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 3,625 asymptomatic infections.
Of the 322 local confirmed cases, 92 were found in closed-loop isolation and control, and 230 were asymptomatic infected patients and turned into confirmed cases.
Among the 3,625 local asymptomatic infections, 3,616 were found in closed-loop isolation and control, and 9 were found in the screening of relevant risk personnel.
Among the 9 cases of positive infection, 1 case was found in the screening in the control area, and 8 cases were found in the screening in the prevention area.
As of 24:00 on May 8, 415 severe patients and 80 critically ill patients had been treated in designated medical institutions.
On May 8, 11 new local deaths were reported, with an average age of 78.9 years.
11 patients had a variety of serious chronic underlying diseases and advanced tumors, including advanced liver cancer, gastric cancer, lymphoma, decompensated liver cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, acute coronary syndrome, cardiac insufficiency, Alzheimer's disease, Sequelae of cerebral infarction, sequelae of polio, diabetes, etc.
Of the 11 deaths, 2 had been vaccinated against the new crown, and the rest were not vaccinated against the new crown.
The immediate cause of death was the underlying disease or malignant tumor.
As of 9:00 on May 9: A total of 797,242 cases of close contacts in Shanghai have been investigated for this epidemic, all of which have been put under control.
Yesterday, 645 local confirmed cases in the city were discharged from hospital, and 8069 cases of asymptomatic infections were released from centralized isolation and medical observation.
Zhao Dandan also introduced that recently, Shanghai has carried out a combination of "antigen + nucleic acid" screening based on the division of the three zones.
According to the screening results, on May 8, the city was divided into 9,829 closed control areas, involving a population of 2.3 million; 18,281 control areas, involving a population of 3.62 million; and 46,464 prevention areas, involving a population of 17.37 million.