(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The Guangzhou New Coronary Epidemic Situation: There is no evidence to prove the occurrence of physical transmission
China News Service, Guangzhou, June 4 (Wang Hua and Wang Shuya) The head of the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated at a press conference on the 4th that the current round of the epidemic is mainly characterized by local clusters and family clusters. There is no evidence to prove the occurrence of human-to-human transmission. .
Zhang Zhoubin, deputy director of the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that most of the reported cases are close contacts of previous cases, especially family close contacts and frequent social contacts; the cases found in the large-scale investigation also have multiple key locations with previous cases. Intersection, such as morning tea shops, small restaurants and other places with no air circulation.
He believes that these two points show that human-to-human transmission has caused the spread of the epidemic, especially the spread caused by indirect face-to-face contact.
The Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention carried out environmental monitoring in key places in the 9 districts of the city. Among the 2,620 environmental specimens involved in the epidemic, most of the positive specimens were in patients' homes (93.5%, 86/92); while other routine environmental monitoring in the city Of the 3024 specimens collected, no positive environmental specimens were found.
Zhang Zhoubin pointed out that this also shows that there is no physical transmission from person to person. The current focus of prevention and control lies in the management and investigation of close contact, sub-close contact, key populations, and key areas.
It is reported that from May 21 to June 3 at 24:00, a total of 77 domestic infections were reported in this round of the epidemic in Guangzhou, including 64 confirmed cases and 13 asymptomatic infections.
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