Shanghai records three new confirmed cases

Three new COVID-19 confirmed cases were reported in Shanghai on Friday, bringing the total of accumulated local infections over the past two days to nine following nearly two months of zero new infections, according to the city government.

The first and the second cases reported on Friday were parents of a confirmed case on the previous day. The couple residing in north Shanghai's Baoshan district were found through tracing the close contacts of the confirmed patients on Thursday, the municipal government said on Saturday morning.

The third new case was a friend of a confirmed case reported on Thursday and lived at a hotel in downtown Huangpu district. The individual was also identified through tracing the close contacts of the confirmed cases.

Altogether 75 close contacts of the three new cases in Shanghai have been identified and placed under hotel quarantine. All the public venues, including restaurants, convenient stores, piano practicing rooms, residential neighborhoods, and a food market that they had been to over the previous two weeks have been disinfected.

The six cases reported on Thursday were two hospital workers, two hotel workers, a resident at the same hotel, and a relative of one of them.

"Relevant epidemiological investigations and tracing of the source of infection for the wave of cases this time are underway," Fu Chen, director of the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Friday.