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Shanghai ahead of the curve in dealing with new outbreak
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Shanghai’s COVID-19 outbreak remains at the “quite early stage” with a clear transmission chain under precise big data tracking, the city’s top coronavirus expert has said.
All the new positive cases were found during screening for close contacts of an imported case. The number is very limited, said Dr Zhang Wenhong, head of Shanghai’s COVID-19 treatment team and director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases.
“We’ve run ahead of the virus and created an ideal close-loop,” he said in an interview with CCTV.
Shanghai has reported two locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and six local asymptomatic cases since Thursday. They are related to an imported asymptomatic COVID-19 case reported in the city last Tuesday.
The genetic sequencing has confirmed the new cases were infected with the Omicron variant, which is more transmissible than the previously dominant Delta variant, the National Health Commission said.
Zhang said the new round of outbreak in Shanghai came about because the imported case failed to obey the rules on home quarantine.
The imported case is a Chinese who was studying in the United States. The person arrived at Pudong International Airport on December 21.
Amid a new wave in the global pandemic caused by the Omicron variant, Shanghai has reported 350-plus imported cases since January 1, or some 25 cases a day on average, according to data from the Shanghai Health Commission.
Zhang said Shanghai will have to keep facing a high risk of imported cases for another half a year.
The milk tea shop on 228 Yuyuan Road, elevated to a medium-level risk area on Thursday, is said to be the smallest medium-risk area in China.
Zhang said it is because the outbreak remains at the very early stage with a clear transmission chain. The city’s precise prevention and big data tracking found most residents in the neighboring communities have not entered the milk tea store.
“I am still confident that the pandemic will end by the end of 2022.”
"It will be the last cold winter caused by the pandemic,” Zhang said. “Every family and lovers will be able to reunite when the Spring Festival of 2023 comes around.”
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