[Commentary] On the evening of April 19, the Press Office of Mudanjiang City Government in Heilongjiang Province held a press conference to inform Mudanjiang City about the two additional confirmed cases on April 18. After investigation, the two new cases were the relationship between husband and wife. His wife was treated in a designated hospital for liver disease and her husband accompanied him. On April 5th, due to the admission of confirmed cases imported from designated hospitals, he was transferred to a secondary hospital in Mudanjiang for inpatient treatment, and his relatives drove their couples to a secondary hospital in a private car.

  [Same period] Wu Ye, Deputy Director of Mudanjiang City Health Committee of Heilongjiang Province

  Through screening the nucleic acid of close contacts, 3 positive testers were found, 2 of them were the medical staff of the second-level hospital, and 1 was the family of the patient. From the time of onset, the time of the first case was the same as the last case in our city Local new coronary pneumonia cases, the interval of which exceeds the incubation period, is unlikely to be transmitted from the local community. According to the comprehensive analysis of the national and provincial epidemiological expert groups, this is a new coronary pneumonia epidemic related to an imported case.

  [Explanation] It is understood that after the recent occurrence of related cases in Mudanjiang City, on April 18, the Mudanjiang City epidemic prevention and control work leading group held an emergency meeting. Liu Yanfeng, director of the Office of the Mudanjiang City Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, said that Mudanjiang will further implement control measures for key locations, key units and key populations.

  [Same period] Liu Yanfeng, Director of the Office of the Mudanjiang City Epidemic Prevention and Control Command

  Further strengthen group prevention and group control, joint prevention and joint control, do a good job in the prevention of key places, key units and key populations according to the time and the situation, take the gathering of strict prevention personnel as the top priority of the current prevention of the spread of the epidemic, and orderly control and control liquidity , Strictly prevent gathering, and strictly manage public gathering activities such as restaurant dinners and square dances in accordance with regulations.

  [Commentary] As of 24:00 on April 18, 2 newly confirmed cases and 3 newly added asymptomatic infections in Mudanjiang City, 76 close contacts were tracked, and all have been subjected to medical isolation observation.

  Reporter Fan Yingjie Wei Lai from Heilongjiang Mudanjiang

Editor in charge: [Wang Yu]