At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held today (4th), Wu Ganyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, made a statement on the issue of “whether parents of infected children can accompany them”. respond. Wu Qianyu said that according to the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases” and the requirements for epidemic prevention and control, infected persons should be isolated from non-infected persons. According to the principle of classified treatment, Shanghai has made it clear that if the parent of the child is also a positive infected person, they can live in the children’s area to accompany and care for them, and receive observation and treatment together. For infected children, if their family members do not meet the conditions of accompaniment, and the children are younger than 7 years old, they will be treated at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. Other older children, adolescents, and younger children infected by their parents who meet the conditions of accompaniment will be isolated and treated at centralized treatment points, and a professional pediatric medical team will be deployed to ensure that children receive standardized and professional treatment and life care. (Reporter Guo Zhendan)
Source: CCTV