(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Beijing has no new confirmed cases with cumulative nucleic acid detection of 11.88 million for 10 consecutive days
China News Service, Beijing, July 16 (Reporter Du Yan) From 0:00 to 24:00 on July 15, there were no new confirmed cases, suspected cases, and asymptomatic infections in Beijing, and 23 cases were discharged. This is the 10th consecutive day of no confirmed cases in Beijing since the epidemic of the new wholesale market on June 11.
The Beijing Municipal Health Commission said on July 16 that as of July 24 at 24:00, Beijing has reported a total of 335 confirmed cases since June 11 and 168 hospitalized and 167 discharged. 17 cases of asymptomatic infections still under medical observation.
As of July 15, there were no high-risk areas in Beijing, and there were four medium-risk areas, all in Fengtai District. The reporter found that in the past 20 days, Beijing's high- and medium-risk areas have been greatly reduced from 44 to 4 at most, from 11 to only 1 at most.
Shi Guoqing, deputy director of the emergency center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that at present, people in Beijing are less likely to be exposed to the new coronavirus. However, to fully realize that New Coronary Pneumonia is a new infectious disease, the understanding of many aspects of the virus needs to be further deepened. Therefore, after the risk level is reduced, personal preventive measures need to be strengthened accordingly.
During the epidemic prevention and control, Beijing quickly locked the Xinfadi wholesale market beef and mutton comprehensive trading hall as a high-risk point, and started the nucleic acid detection work as quickly as possible, especially for the Xinfadi wholesale market and other epidemic-related markets. Personnel, residents of the surrounding communities, and those who have been investigated by the big data in the Xinfadi wholesale market and relevant personnel in medium and high-risk streets and towns "should be thoroughly inspected." At the same time, it satisfies the public's "willing to check and check" needs.
Zhang Qiang, deputy leader of the Quarantine and Inspection Working Group of the Beijing New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Working Group, introduced that from June 11 to July 14, Beijing had a total of 11.9 million people sampled and 11.88 million people were tested, which exceeded the number of Beijing residents. half.
He said that in the epidemic, 197 cases of new coronary pneumonia were found through active screening by nucleic acid detection, accounting for 53.8% of the number of people infected with the virus. (Finish)