China Youth Daily client, Beijing, March 19th (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Liu Shixin) Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, announced today that from 16:00 on March 17th to 16:00 on March 19th, Beijing 3 new local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia. One of the infected persons was a probationary employee of a roast duck restaurant that had a clustered outbreak before, but neither the roast duck restaurant nor the case was reported as required, which greatly increased the risk of the spread of the epidemic.
There have been 60 infected people in this round of the epidemic in Beijing. Pang Xinghuo reported today the details of 3 new confirmed cases.
The infected person 61 lived in Fengtai District and returned to Beijing on March 16. He had been in contact with an asymptomatic infected person in another province on March 13.
Infected Person 62 is currently living at No. 3, Dongzhimen Neibei Street, Dongzhimen Street, Dongcheng District. On March 17, the infected person participated in the nucleic acid test of key populations at risk points organized by the local subdistrict. The report was positive on March 18, and the diagnosis was confirmed on the same day.
Pang Xinghuo specifically mentioned that the case worked in Yulexuan Roast Duck Restaurant as a probationary employee from March 12 to 14, and lived with the three confirmed cases in the store. The owner of Yulexuan Roast Duck Restaurant did not fully report all the people who had worked in the store, and the temporary staff did not scan the code in the store as required. Infected people also did not actively report, which greatly increased the risk of epidemic transmission.
Infected person 63 is currently living in Building 4, Yard 35, Shimen Xinju, Nanmofang Township, Chaoyang District, and is a close contact of infected persons 44 and 45. The infected persons 44 and 45 are a mother and daughter, and the children are studying at Hepingli No. 4 Primary School (East Campus) in Dongcheng District, Beijing.
Source: China Youth Daily client