About 47,700 beds have been opened in several newly built temporary hospitals in Shanghai, and another 30,000 are being set up as the metropolis spares no effort to contain the latest resurgence of COVID-19.
A total of 62 temporary quarantine sites have been designated at hotels, stadiums, exhibition centers and training centers, said Gu Honghui, deputy secretary general of the municipal government.
Aerial view of a temporary hospital at the China Flower Expo Park in Chongming District in east China’s Shanghai, April 3, 2022. (Ding Ting/Xinhua)
Gu said new positive cases should be quarantined immediately and given proper treatment at designated facilities.
Shanghai reported 13,354 new confirmed locally transmitted and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of local cases in the metropolis to more than 73,000 during the latest outbreak that started in March.
All the wards of the largest temporary hospital in the metropolis, located in the new Shanghai International Expo Center, have been put into operation, with a capacity of nearly 15,000 people infected with COVID-19, according to the municipal government.
A total of 2,218 medical professionals from 11 medical teams, including one from Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, have been assigned to the hospital. The city’s first parent-child quarantine area has been operational since Monday evening, with the hospital admitting about 4,000 patients that day.
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