UpdatesonCOVID19casesinShenzhen
From: Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission
Updated: 2022-01-19 14:01
Shenzhen reported one local confirmed case and one imported asymptomatic case of COVID-19 yesterday.
The confirmed case involves a 32-year-old cleaner at a hotel where international flight crews stay. The female patient had been under closed-loop management – meaning she worked and lived in designated locations – for the last 14 days.
From Jan. 1 to 14, the patient’s daily routine nucleic acid test results were all negative. However, on Jan. 14, she switched shifts and went to a quarantine hotel for centralized medical observation where one nucleic acid test was required every two days.
On Saturday, her nucleic acid test was still negative, but when she took a nucleic acid test Monday, it yielded a positive preliminary result.
The patient’s latest test result, reviewed by the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) early yesterday morning, was also positive. She was diagnosed as a confirmed COVID case (common type) and has been sent to the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen for treatment.
The asymptomatic case, a Chinese national,flew to Shenzhen from Singapore on Jan. 16. The person was quarantined upon entry and has been sent to the emergency ward of the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen for treatment. The patient is currently in stable condition.