Local hospital operating normally Shanghai confirms 2 new local cases
SHANGHAI reported two new locally transmitted confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the local health commission said yesterday.
A Changning District resident, who was looking after a relative, a patient at the Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center’s Xuhui branch, tested positive after closedloop management was imposed by the hospital on January 20, according to Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Health Commission. The hospital has suspended outpatient services after a COVID-19 case was found among its staff last Thursday.
Nucleic acid tests on staff and at places related to the case all returned negative.
Another locally transmitted case was a Huangpu District resident, who is the spouse of a COVID-19 patient who tested positive on Saturday, Wu said. The patient showed symptoms during quarantine and was diagnosed on Monday.
All close contacts of the two cases have been put under quarantine and observation at designated places. The places the patients had visited have been fully disinfected.
Shanghai has reported 15 COVID-19 cases in the past five days. All of them are being treated at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center.
A total of 380 close contacts have been quarantined. Nucleic acid test results on 371 of those contacts were negative while nine were positive.
More than 1,000 close contacts of those 380 people have also been put under central quarantine, all of them testing negative.