There are 318 severe cases and 52 critical cases in Shanghai

Poster reporter Zhuang Binbin reported from Shanghai

On April 29, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, introduced at a press conference. On April 28, Shanghai New An increase of 52 local deaths. As of 24:00 on April 28, 318 severe patients and 52 critically ill patients had been treated in designated medical institutions.

Among the 52 new local deaths, the average age was 84.02 years. 52 patients with multiple organ serious underlying diseases, including esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, meningioma, melanoma and other advanced malignant tumors, postoperative cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction sequelae, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological diseases. System diseases, as well as coronary heart disease, severe cardiac insufficiency, arrhythmia, severe hypertension, diabetes, uremia, etc. None of them have been vaccinated against the new crown. The immediate cause of death is the underlying disease.

As of 9:00 on April 29: A total of 597,504 close contacts in Shanghai have been investigated for this epidemic, all of which have been put under control.

Yesterday, 2,480 local confirmed cases in the city were discharged from hospital, and 14,994 asymptomatic infected persons were released from centralized isolation and medical observation. They will return to their place of residence for health monitoring, and the community is requested to do a good job in picking them up.

Zhao Dandan introduced that recently, Shanghai announced the first batch of 534 normalized nucleic acid sampling points to facilitate nucleic acid testing for citizens. In order to reduce the burden on citizens and enterprises, from May 1 to June 30, the city’s normalized nucleic acid testing points will implement free nucleic acid testing. Please take the initiative to test according to the prevention and control requirements.