境外输入病例居高位，市卫健委：外防压力大 - 2022年01月14日

With the pandemic reaching the "peak risky period" globally, a record number of imported COVID-19 infection cases are being treated in Shanghai, the city's top coronavirus expert said.

The coronavirus wards of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, the city's major hospital for COVID-19 treatment, has received the largest number of patients from overseas since the pandemic began some two years ago.

"Shanghai is facing great pressure from the surging imported cases, as the world has entered the extremely high risky period of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr Zhang Wenhong, head of Shanghai's COVID-19 treatment team and director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases.