On May 17, Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong added 1 new case of positive infection of the new coronavirus among the close contacts in centralized isolation, which is a close contact of the positive case on May 15.

The relevant information is reported as follows:

  The case, female, 44 years old, is engaged in self-employed trade and lives in Dali Town, Nanhai District.

On May 15, Case 1 was included in centralized isolation after the nucleic acid test was positive.

The nucleic acid test was negative on May 15 and 16, and the nucleic acid test was positive on May 17. Combined with epidemiological investigations, clinical manifestations, and laboratory tests, it was determined that they were asymptomatic infections, that is, closed-loop transfer to a dedicated isolation place for medical observation.

  Since May 15, Foshan City has launched regional nucleic acid screening. As of 22:00 on May 17, a total of 10.364 million person-times have been sampled, and 6.632 million person-times have been tested, all of which are negative, and the remaining results are pending.

  Everyone is responsible for epidemic prevention and control. Citizens are requested to take the initiative to cooperate with necessary nucleic acid testing and other epidemic prevention and control measures.

If you find that you have been assigned a yellow code or a red code, please be sure to report to the community where you live immediately.

Under the circumstance of self-protection, the yellow code personnel will go to the nearby yellow code testing area to complete 2 inspections in 3 days, and the yellow code will be lifted; the red code personnel will cooperate with the community to implement control work according to the epidemic prevention and control measures.

  Nanhai District Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters

  May 17, 2022

  (Headquarters reporter Chen Xuting)