China News Service, Shanghai, March 17 (Reporter Chen Jing) The National Health and Medical Commission released the “New Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Plan (Trial Version 9)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Diagnosis and Treatment Plan”), which provides a new standard for discharge and treatment. The isolation management requirements were subsequently adjusted. Zhang Wenhong, head of the Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Medical Treatment Expert Team and director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital, said on the 17th that according to the “Diagnosis and Treatment Plan”, the isolation time of the people receiving treatment will be shortened, and the risk of prevention and control will not increase for the entire society. Designated hospitals can set aside more medical resources to treat critically ill patients.
At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held on the 17th, Zhang Wenhong pointed out that the hierarchical management method of the “Diagnosis and Treatment Plan” will improve the optimization of medical resources. He bluntly said that the update of the “Diagnosis and Treatment Plan” is a very strategic adjustment during the entire process of fighting the epidemic. The medical community is very much looking forward to these adjustments. The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission has convened a Shanghai expert group for discussions.
In Zhang Wenhong’s view, there should be three weapons to fight the epidemic in the future: first, there must be adequate vaccination; second, there must be effective antiviral drugs and other drugs, including traditional Chinese medicine, etc. Support; third, there must be very sufficient medical redundancy.
How to delineate key areas for grid screening in Shanghai? Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said on the same day that the key areas are based on the occurrence of cases and infected persons since the outbreak of the epidemic, as well as their aggregation and distribution characteristics in areas, units and groups of people, combined with consideration of population density in the area, social Characteristics, characteristics of economic activities and other comprehensive factors to determine. This time, in principle, streets (townships) are used as screening units to delineate the scope of key screening areas.
He pointed out that after completing the nucleic acid twice in 48 hours in this round, Shanghai will comprehensively study and judge the infection risk of the population in the screening area and whether there is a possibility of spreading and spread based on the screening results, and dynamically adjust the next step. Epidemic control measures.
According to the data of the National Health and Medical Commission, from 0:00 to 24:00 on March 16, 8 new local confirmed cases and 150 local asymptomatic infections were added in Shanghai. (end)