(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Increment, speeding up, and adapting, from the three key words to see China's further vaccinations against the new coronavirus
China News Service, Beijing, November 30th. Topic: Increment, acceleration, and adaptability. Looking at China from three key words to further improve the new crown virus vaccination
China News Agency reporter Li Chun
According to official data, more than 1.1 billion people in China have completed the full course of vaccinations against the new coronavirus, and the cumulative number of doses reported and the number of people who completed the full course of vaccinations have been increasing.
At present, China is speeding up the vaccination of the elderly and people between the ages of 3 and 17, and promoting the strengthening of immunization for key populations.
On the other hand, for Omi Keron mutant strains, China has also done a number of preliminary technical reserves and research on vaccine technology routes.
On November 30, at the Community Health Service Center of Yannan Street, Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, children stayed for observation after being vaccinated against the new crown.
At present, the new crown vaccination work for people aged 3 to 11 years in Lanzhou is being carried out in an orderly manner.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Gao Zhan
The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council of China held a press conference on the 30th to introduce the situation regarding further vaccinations against the new coronavirus.
The reporter sorted out three key words.
Increment: Over 1.1 billion people in China have completed the entire vaccination
As of November 29, China has reported a total of 2.499.813 million doses of new crown virus vaccine. The number of people who completed the entire vaccination process exceeded 1.1 billion, reaching 1110.506 million.
The spokesperson of the National Health Commission Mi Feng said at the press conference that the number of new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide is still increasing. With the spread of countries and regions, China's foreign defense import pressure continues to increase.
Mi Feng said that since November, most of the new local confirmed cases in China have been concentrated in border and port cities.
It is necessary to adhere to the overall strategy of "prevention of external defense and internal defense against rebound" and unswervingly, to minimize the impact of the epidemic on the economy and society.
It is necessary to speed up the vaccination of the elderly and people aged 3 to 17 years, and promote the strengthening of immunization of key populations.
On November 13, medical staff were vaccinating children with the new crown vaccine.
On the same day, Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing launched a special vaccination session for children aged 3-11 years old.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tian Yuhao
Cui Gang, the second-level inspector of the CDC of the National Health Commission, also pointed out that the recent outbreaks of local clusters in China were all imported through port cities, revealing that some port cities still have shortcomings in the prevention and control of epidemics.
He said that in order to build a strong line of defense against external defense, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the State Council's joint defense and joint control mechanism, we must continue to adhere to the overall strategy of "external defense input and internal defense rebound" to further strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures.
The focus is to strengthen work in four aspects: working mechanism, monitoring and early warning, "human" defense, and "material" defense.
Speed up: accelerate the promotion of vaccination for the elderly
According to the press conference, as of November 29, the number of people over 60 years of age who have been vaccinated against the new coronavirus in China has reached 21.17 million, of which 20.6317,000 have been vaccinated.
Zheng Zhongwei, head of the Vaccine R&D Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Research Team of the State Council and director of the Science and Technology Development Center of the National Health Commission, pointed out that most elderly people have basic diseases. From the current global situation, once infected, severe illnesses and deaths occur. The risk is much higher than that of young people and children.
At present, the average age of death of new crown patients in various countries is over 70 years old.
"Since the spread of the epidemic in Guangdong and Jiangsu, we have also done some data analysis. The risk of severe illness after being vaccinated with the new coronary pneumonia vaccine in the elderly is significantly lower than that of the unvaccinated elderly. More than 90% of severely infected people have not been vaccinated. Yes." Zheng Zhongwei said.
On the other hand, the total number of people over 60 in China is 264 million.
Zheng Zhongwei said that there are still about 20%, or about 50 million elderly people who have not been vaccinated against the new coronavirus, which is equivalent to the population of a medium-sized country.
If the vaccination work for this population of more than 50 million is not promoted quickly, once the control is relaxed, the absolute number of severe illnesses and deaths will be unacceptable, and medical resources will inevitably be severely run on, causing major social problems.
He pointed out that speeding up the vaccination of the elderly is of great significance to the elderly themselves, to their families, and to society.
"Only by comprehensively increasing the vaccination rate of the elderly with the new coronavirus vaccine in my country, can it be possible to gain the initiative and time for my country's epidemic prevention and control."
Response: Make preparations for the preliminary technical reserves of vaccines against new variant strains
The Omi Keron variant of the new crown virus continues to attract attention.
As of November 30, South Africa, Botswana, Israel, Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Hong Kong and other places have monitored the prevalence or import of the mutant strain.
On November 1, citizens in the small and small Ximen business districts of Tianshan District, Urumqi, Xinjiang, were vaccinated against the new crown on a mobile vaccination vehicle.
According to reports, the city's first mobile vaccination vehicle has been officially opened to provide people with new crown vaccination services.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xin
Qian Zhaohui, a researcher at the Institute of Pathogenic Biology of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said that according to the recent circulating data reported in South Africa, the Omi Keron variant has a very fast spreading rate, but whether it will surpass Delta and become the new major epidemic strain, based on The current data is still difficult to judge, "but it deserves great attention."
Talking about whether it is necessary to carry out related vaccine research and development and technical reserves for the Omi Keron variant, Xu Wenbo, director of the Viral Disease Prevention and Control Institute of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that there are many spike (S) proteins in the Omi Keron variant. An important amino acid mutation, these amino acid mutations have been found in Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and other variants related to immune escape.
However, it is unclear whether the superposition of these mutation sites will further lead to immune escape.
He also introduced that China has already prepared the preliminary technical reserves and research on multiple technical routes including inactivated vaccines, protein vaccines, and carrier vaccines for the Omi Keron variant, and related preliminary designs for some companies have already begun.
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