On the evening of January 6, Xingtai City, Hebei Province held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic to release the latest news on the prevention and control of the epidemic.
Deng Suxue, deputy mayor of the Xingtai Municipal People’s Government, introduced that on January 4, Xingtai City transferred 87 professional transfer teams composed of 854 people and 29 professional inspection teams composed of 864 people to station in Nangong to carry out all-round work.
We have screened 1092 close contacts for confirmed cases, asymptomatic infections, and positive nucleic acid tests, and 929 second close contacts. All of them have undergone nucleic acid testing, and 921 reports have been issued.
As of 16:00 today (6th), all 362,819 resident populations in Nangong City have been sampled and tested. Among them, 360,647 people have been tested, and 2172 people are under testing.
Starting at 8 o'clock this morning, a professional team of 54,000 people in Xingtai City will implement nucleic acid testing for all employees and plan to complete the task in 3 days.
On January 3, the first batch of 3 confirmed patients’ nucleic acid samples were sent from the Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention for gene sequencing. According to the feedback this morning, the spread of the virus was highly similar to that of imported viruses in Europe. The source has an epidemiological connection, thus clarifying the epidemiological approach of this epidemic.
(CCTV reporter Qian Jiang Wang Shuinan)