Shanghai cuts off community transmission of COVID-19
Xinhua |
Updated: 2022-05-17 10:18
Share
Share - WeChat
SHANGHAI -- China's Shanghai has cut off the community transmission of COVID-19 in all its 16 districts, a municipal official said Tuesday.
The megacity reported 77 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 746 local asymptomatic cases on Monday, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai municipal health commission, told a press conference.
All the new cases were from areas under quarantine or closed-off management, he said.
According to the official, the city registered one COVID-19-related death on Monday. The deceased was a 92-year-old woman with underlying diseases.
A total of 315 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospital after recovery on Monday and 2,872 asymptomatic cases were released from quarantine, Zhao said.
- China, Myanmar, Thailand hold ministerial-level meeting on telecom and cyberspace
- Prado in virtual reality
- Shantou education department suspends classes due to Typhoon Danas
- China's scientists make breakthrough on how H5N1 influenza occurred in the US
- Civil Aviation Administration of China announces a new extension of M503 flight route
- China's ecological civilization praised by Solomon Islands parliament
