A subway in Shanghai is empty on the 20th due to a surge of corona19 patients in China.. Yonhap News
Due to the rapid spread of Corona 19 in China, the number of people infected with Corona 19 in Shanghai, the economic capital, is expected to exceed 10 million, according to estimates by a renowned local infectious disease expert.
According to the People’s Daily, the organ of the Communist Party of China, on the 31st, Zhang Wenhong, director of Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, said in a video interview with the social media account ‘Dajiangdong’, ” Shanghai has reached the peak of corona infections19 since 22. According to estimates, the current number of infected people is more than 10 million,” he said.
“Assuming that 0.5% of 10 million infected people are hospitalised, this means that 50,000 people have been hospitalized in recent weeks. Each large hospital is treating thousands of people.”
“Although the percentage of seriously ill patients among infected people is low, the number of infected people is absolutely high,” he said.
Zhang said that doctors and nurses from all medical facilities in Shanghai, from public health centers to large hospitals, have been brought in to treat patients infected with COVID-19 and are working hard to improve the treatment of seriously ill patients.
“We need to improve treatment across society, such as expanding treatment facilities and medical staff, providing oxygen therapy and antiviral drugs, providing standardized medical records, and ensuring many patients are treated within 72 hours of starting,” he said. the number of hospital beds: “Urgent patients must be treated within 24 hours,” she stressed.
