COVID-19 community transmission risk effectively contained in Shanghai
2022-05-02 10:08:58 source：CGTN
May 1, 2022
The risk of COVID-19 community transmission in Shanghai has been effectively contained, Gu Honghui, head of Shanghai's COVID-19 response team, said at a press conference on Sunday.
Shanghai's daily local infections peaked on April 13 with 27,605 cases and have been going down since, Gu said, adding that the reproduction rate is declining, with the Rt number dropping from 2.27 to 0.67.
Rt means the effective, time-varying reproduction number of COVID-19. The number has remained below one for 15 consecutive days, Gu said.
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