(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Yangzhou has reported a total of 272 local confirmed cases, 17 severe cases and 4 critical cases

  China News Service, Yangzhou, August 7 (Reporter Cui Jiaming and Zhu Xiaoying) On the morning of the 7th, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province held the ninth press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

Wang Jinsong, deputy director of the Yangzhou Municipal Health Commission, introduced that from 0-24 o'clock on August 6, 52 new cases of new coronary pneumonia in Yangzhou were newly diagnosed.

At present, Yangzhou City has reported a total of 272 local confirmed cases (including 74 cases of mild cases, 177 cases of ordinary cases, 17 cases of severe cases, and 4 cases of critical cases).

  Statistics show that, at present, Yangzhou's daily new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and the cumulative number of reported local confirmed cases have exceeded Nanjing.

  Up to now, Yangzhou has 1 high-risk area and 70 medium-risk areas.

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