It’s officially over. This week has seen the final two patients suffering from the Delta variant of COVID discharged from hospital in Nanjing. They join hundreds of others given the all clear to make Jiangsu Province now once again COVID free.
On Monday, 13 September, the last two locally-diagnosed patients in our city were discharged, meaning that all 235 cases have been cleared from the Nanjing Public Health Centre in Tangshan Town.
The final two patients, a mother and daughter, aged 39 and 7 respectively, have been transferred to Lishui District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for isolation observation, reports The Paper.
The mother was admitted to hospital on 31 July and the daughter on 2 September.
Over the course of the outbreak, some 23 medical teams from 19 provincial and municipal medical institutions, represented by more than 1,500 medical professionals, spent 50 days battling the outbreak. Their efforts were rewarded with victory in not one death occurring.
Some of the numbers emerging from other cities make for interesting reading too, as Nanjing turned out to be the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Elsewhere in Jiangsu, a total of 820 people contracted the Delta variant since the outbreak began at Nanjing Lukou International Airport.
The majority of these cases outwith Nanjing but still in Jiangsu were in Yangzhou, where 570 people were found to be COVID positive.
They were joined by 12 cases in Huai’an City in the centre of the Province and three in Suqian City that lies in Jiangsu’s far northwest.
Away from the Lukou outbreak, there are also six confirmed cases imported from abroad still being treated in hospitals, as well as two imported asymptomatic carriers under medical observation, reports the Global Times.
To date this year, Jiangsu has reported 1,592 confirmed infections, which included 140 imported cases, up to 13 September.
