(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Five family members and a colleague in Guangzhou who were asymptomatically infected
China News Agency, Guangzhou, April 28 (Cai Minjie) The Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission said on the 28th that there were 7 new cases of asymptomatic new coronavirus infections on April 27 from 0:00 to 24:00, of which 5 were reported on the 26th One case of a family member of an asymptomatic infected person is a close colleague.
The six newly-increased asymptomatic infected persons are all resident in Xintang Town, Guangzhou City. The five family members and one close contact colleague of an infected person reported in Xintang Town on the 26th. The Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission stated that the relevant population of all the key places involved in the above 6 cases of asymptomatic infections has been expanded and a total of 4,876 samples have been sampled. The nucleic acid tests are negative. All close contacts have been sent to designated locations for quarantine medical observation.
In addition, there was also a case of asymptomatic infection reported on the 27th, which often lives in Jiexia Street, Tangxia Street, Guangzhou City. On April 20, as a close contact of an infected person, a concentrated isolation medical observation was performed, and on April 27, the nucleic acid test was positive.
The Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission said that recently, disease control experts continued to evaluate and analyze the outbreak and found that the newly discovered cases have a higher proportion of asymptomatic infections, but the transmission of asymptomatic infections is limited. Compared with confirmed cases, Its infectivity is relatively weak. Through active investigation, "early detection, early isolation, and early blocking" can be achieved to minimize the possibility of infection.
Tang Xiaoping, director of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission, previously stated that Guangzhou ’s current isolation medical management for asymptomatic infections is strictly implemented according to the standards for diagnosed patients: once found, it will be sent to a designated hospital for centralized medical isolation, and two samples of nucleic acid must be reached If the test is negative, and the quarantine observation is continued for 14 days, the quarantine can be lifted. On the other hand, after finding an asymptomatic infected person, the CDC immediately carried out epidemiological investigation, close contact tracing, disinfection of activity venues, etc. (Finish)