Nucleic acid testing in Urumqi has sampled more than 1.03 million people

　　Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, July 22 (Reporters Li Zhihao and Pan Ying) Urumqi is speeding up the full coverage of free nucleic acid testing. As of 24:00 on July 21, the city has sampled 1,037,548 people.

　　At a press conference held by the Information Office of the People’s Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on the 22nd, Shang Yulan, deputy secretary-general of the People’s Government of Urumqi, stated that there are currently 24 nucleic acid testing institutions involved in the testing. As of 24:00 on July 21, A total of 1037548 samples have been sampled in the city. With the strong support of 10 medical teams from brother provinces, the daily nucleic acid testing capacity of Urumqi City is expected to reach 600,000 copies on July 22.

　　Rui Baoling, director of the Urumqi Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the general public in Urumqi stayed at home, reducing the chance of personnel movement and cross-infection, and basically controlling the risk of clustered epidemics.

　　Rui Baoling said that with the further increase in nucleic acid testing, some cases and asymptomatic infections may be screened out. From the perspective of epidemic prevention and control, the discovery of these cases is beneficial to us, because it shows that the source of infection was discovered in time, and the close contacts related to them were included in medical observation in time, so that we can win this in the shortest time. A solid foundation was laid for the fight against the epidemic.

　　The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Health Commission reported that as of 24:00 on July 21, there were 64 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Xinjiang (including the Corps) (including 1 critically ill, 3 severely ill, and 1 severely ill converted to normal type), Urumqi There are 62 cases in the city, 1 case in Kashgar (imported cases in Urumqi), and 1 case in the Corps; 69 cases of asymptomatic infections are currently in Urumqi; 3162 people are still under medical observation.