Chinanews.com, Beijing, August 1 (Reporter Du Yan) Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stated at a press conference held on August 1 that from 0:00 to 16:00 on August 1, Beijing added The two confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia associated with outside Beijing and one asymptomatic infection were all returned to Beijing from Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province and came from the same family.
Pang Xinghuo pointed out that the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted genetic sequencing of the virus in the confirmed cases announced on July 29, and the results showed that the virus was a mutant strain of Delta.
According to the comparison by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus in the case is highly homologous to the virus in the recent Nanjing epidemic and belongs to the same transmission chain.
Pang Xinghuo said that the family of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections reported this time actively reported the family’s travel history to the community where they were located before they arrived in Beijing. Community staff members would come to take samples for nucleic acid testing as soon as they got the information, which helped to control the epidemic in time. Time.
Here is a suggestion: Those returning to Beijing who have recently visited Nanjing, Zhangjiajie, Zhengzhou and other medium- and high-risk areas must take the initiative to report to their communities (village, neighborhood committees) and units.