The Epidemic Command Center announced 17 local cases today, a record high for a single day in this wave of the epidemic. Among them, 14 were consumers who dined at Xidi on January 7 and 9, and employees of Xidi. The boyfriend of the nurse at Renai Hospital, the nurse at Yadong Hospital in New Beibei, and a patient who was screened positive in the hospital following a car accident had a Ct value of 32. In addition, there were 48 new cases of overseas immigration today; no new deaths were confirmed among the confirmed cases.
Epidemic commander Chen Shizhong said that in addition to the Xidi cluster case, 3 sporadic cases were added today. One was a nurse at Yadong Hospital. The people around the case were all negative following testing, and virus gene sequencing is currently being done. Because the case was not in a dedicated ward, gene sequencing was needed to clarify the source of infection.
The command center said that the new local cases today are 8 males and 9 females, aged between under 5 years old and in their 60s.
The command center explained that today’s new cases of immigration from abroad are 28 males and 20 females, aged between under 10 and over 50, from the United States (28 cases), the Philippines (2 cases), France, Ireland, and the Netherlands. , Costa Rica, Canada, Denmark and Germany (1 case each); the other 11 cases are under investigation. The entry date is from January 2 to January 16, today (2022).
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