China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 10 (Li Xiaowei) On the afternoon of the 10th, the third press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hebei Province was held in Shijiazhuang.
According to the director of the Emergency Office of Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Chief Technician Jian Jian, the epidemiological investigation of all discovered cases has been completed, and households in key areas have been screened. A total of more than 1.3 million people have been investigated in Shijiazhuang, and close contacts have been identified. There are more than 11,000 people and more than 5,800 close contacts of close contacts.
Xingtai City has tracked and controlled more than 2,000 close contacts, and more than 1,300 close contacts of close contacts.
According to Shi Jian, the distribution of cases in this epidemic presents a high degree of spatial clustering. The infected persons are mainly from rural areas and the infected persons are generally older. In order to quickly and effectively control the epidemic and avoid the spread of the epidemic, Hebei has organized provincial and municipal diseases. More than 200 flow control team members from the control center assisted the epidemic prevention and control in Gaocheng District. The National Health Commission also dispatched a team of experts from the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to arrive in Shijiazhuang one after another starting from January 3 to guide the work on the spot.
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