Shanghai’s COVID-19 tally falls to double-digits for the first time in 2 months
Shanghai reported 65 COVID-19 infections on Sunday, the municipal government announced on Monday.
This is the first time in two months that the daily tally of new infections in the city is a double-digit figure.
One new case was found outside controlled populations in Minhang district. A total of 53 close contacts and 28 secondary contacts have been identified and quarantined, and all have tested negative for the virus as of press time. No 165 Jianchuan Road, the compound where the case lives, has been classified as a medium-risk zone.
Zhao Dandan, deputy director of Shanghai Health Commission, pointed out at the news briefing on Monday that Shanghai has set up 15,000 nucleic acid test stations in preparation for the city's planned return to normalcy on June 1.
Four thousand of these stations are situated inside residential compounds, 6,000 inside companies, schools and construction sites, and 5,000 in public spaces. Some of these test stations have already started operations.
Zhao added that city has also trained and certified around 50,000 people as nucleic acid testers.
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