China News Service, Shanghai, May 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, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that Shanghai must be strict and pay close attention to it. Epidemic prevention and control, earnestly do epidemiological investigations, and quickly carry out emergency response work: it is necessary to highlight the word "fast", the word "quasi", and the word "management".
Zhao Dandan said that Shanghai is currently in the stage of consolidating the achievements of the clearing. Although the social level has been cleared, the risk of finding positive infections among the risk groups still exists, and the pressure to "reduce new growth and prevent rebound" is still great.
On the 17th, Shanghai added 96 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 759 local asymptomatic infections.
As of 24:00 on the 17th, there were 218 severe patients and 63 critically ill patients receiving treatment in designated medical institutions.
On the 17th, 3 new local deaths were reported, with an average age of 69.7 years.
Three patients had malignant tumors or severe acute and chronic underlying diseases.
Zhao Dandan said that once there is a positive infection in society, the relevant departments must adhere to the fast system, coordinate and coordinate the "city-district-community" three-level transfer team, conduct epidemiological investigations as soon as possible after receiving the report, and strictly implement " 2+4+24" work requirements, that is, the flow adjustment team arrives at the site within 2 hours, completes the core information of the flow adjustment within 4 hours, and initially investigates the basic situation and completes the flow adjustment report within 24 hours.
Relying on the emergency command system for epidemiological investigation, Shanghai will give full play to the role of the "three public (work)" collaborative working mechanism of public health, public security, and industry and information technology. Combined with on-site investigation and big data information, comprehensive analysis, scientific research and judgment, and investigation of activity trajectories, Lock down risk groups, reasonably determine close contacts and close contacts, so that "everyone should be checked and judged, and no one should be missed."
Shanghai will strictly implement various management and control measures, first of all to "transfer as much as possible", and to contact the city and district transfer departments as soon as possible after the positive infection is found. Complete the transfer of positive infected persons.
Zhao Dandan said that for close contacts who have been checked and determined, "should be isolated as much as possible and quickly isolated" to block the risk of transmission to the greatest extent; for important places or key areas involved, risk investigation and control should be carried out in a timely manner; at the same time; , combined with environmental testing, laboratory virus gene sequencing, etc., to do a good job in tracing the source of the epidemic.
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