Shanghai adds two new cases of COVID-19

Two new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported in Shanghai on Monday, bringing the tally in the city to 15, the municipal government said on Tuesday morning.

One of the new cases is the spouse of a confirmed patient identified on Saturday and lives in downtown Huangpu district. The case has been placed under hotel quarantine.

The other is a resident of Changning district and has been staying in a hospital that has implemented closed-loop management since last Wednesday.

Two hospitals in Shanghai have since last Wednesday been operating under closed-loop management after two logistics workers tested positive for COVID-19. The hospitals are the Shanghai Cancer Center Affiliated with Fudan University in Xuhui district and the west branch of Renji Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School in Huangpu district.

All the individuals who had contact with confirmed cases have been placed under quarantine. All the public venues that they had been to over the previous two weeks, including a residential neighborhood and two traditional Chinese medicine medical institutions, have been disinfected, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission said.

The municipal government also announced on Tuesday morning that the two campuses of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University in Huangpu and Yangpu districts have resumed normal operations after some substandard nucleic acid test results of their staff finally came back negative.