At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held on April 19, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission announced that on April 18, Shanghai had actually added 19,442 new positive infections. On the same day, 1,211 local confirmed cases in Shanghai were discharged from hospital, 22,075 cases of asymptomatic infections were released from centralized isolation and medical observation, and a total of 23,286 cases were discharged from the hospital, exceeding the number of new positive infections that day.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Weibo