(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The Shijiazhuang epidemic has the characteristics of high incidence and family clustering

  China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 6 (Li Qian and Li Xiaowei) A press conference on epidemic prevention and control was held in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province on the evening of the 5th. It was announced that the current epidemic in Shijiazhuang was characterized by high incidence and family clustering.

Starting on the 6th, all-staff nucleic acid testing will be launched in Shijiazhuang city.

  According to Wang Jianfeng, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Government and spokesperson for the Municipal Government, from January 2 to 4, Shijiazhuang reported a total of 14 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 40 cases of asymptomatic infection, all of which were treated in designated municipal hospitals. .

There were no critical cases and no deaths.

  Wang Jianfeng said that as of 24:00 on the 4th, Shijiazhuang has completed 52,784 nucleic acid tests.

Starting on the 6th, full-scale nucleic acid testing will be launched throughout the city of Shijiazhuang to ensure early detection, early reporting, early isolation, and early treatment, and the rapid cut off of the epidemic.

  Lu Fei, director of the Shijiazhuang City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that this Shijiazhuang epidemic has the characteristics of high incidence and family clustering. There have been a large number of cases in a short period of time, bringing unprecedented challenges.

At present, the traceability work is being further strengthened, and throat swab samples of confirmed cases have been collected and sent to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for whole genome sequencing.

  On the evening of the 5th, the Shijiazhuang City Education Bureau issued a message requesting that the city’s primary and secondary schools and kindergartens suspend offline courses.

Starting on the 6th, all teachers and students of day schools (kindergartens) will not return to school temporarily; all boarding schools will be fully closed management, day students in semi-boarding schools will not return to school temporarily, and boarding students will be fully closed management.

  From 04:00 on January 4, Hebei added 14 new confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia and 30 new local asymptomatic infections.

Among them, 11 new local cases were reported in Shijiazhuang (2 cases of asymptomatic infection were converted to confirmed cases), and 30 new local asymptomatic infections were all reported in Shijiazhuang.

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