(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Chinese official: Inner Mongolia clustered epidemic has no connection with previous local epidemics triggered by overseas imports
China News Agency, Beijing, November 30 (Reporter Li Chun) Cui Gang, the second-level inspector of the CDC of the National Health Commission of China, said in Beijing on the 30th that the clustered epidemic in Inner Mongolia has nothing to do with previous local epidemics, but is the same. Epidemics caused by new sources of overseas imports.
On the same day, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council of China held a press conference to further improve the situation of new coronavirus vaccination.
Cui Gang introduced at the meeting that recently, a local cluster of epidemics occurred in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia.
As of 24:00 on November 29, a total of 42 cases of infection have been reported in this epidemic, spreading to 2 provinces and 3 cities.
Among them, 39 cases were in Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia, 2 cases were in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, and 1 case was Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang.
The results of viral genome sequencing showed that this epidemic was not related to previous local epidemics, and it was an epidemic caused by a new overseas import source.
“At present, there have been small clusters of cases in families, residential communities, and schools in Manzhouli, Hulunbuir. The community transmission risk of the local epidemic is high, and the investigation of outflow risk personnel is in progress.” Cui Gang said, after the outbreak. , The National Health Commission and the National Disease Control and Prevention Bureau earnestly implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and dispatched a working group to the local for guidance as soon as possible. At present, various disposal tasks are being carried out vigorously and orderly. The local emergency response has been initiated in time, and a flat We will improve the command system, implement prevention and control measures such as nucleic acid screening, flow traceability, medical treatment, community management and control, and risk personnel investigation, and strive to control the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible.
Regarding how to further strengthen the import of foreign defenses, Cui Gang said that the recent outbreaks of local clustered epidemics in China were all imported through port cities, which revealed that some port cities still have shortcomings in the prevention and control of epidemics.
In order to build a strong line of defense against external defense, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism, we must continue to adhere to the overall strategy of "external defense input, internal defense rebound", and further strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures, focusing on working mechanisms, monitoring and early warning, Strengthen efforts in four aspects of "human" defense and "material" defense: First, improve the prevention and control mechanism of port cities; second, improve the epidemic monitoring and early warning system; third, strictly manage entry personnel and high-risk personnel at the port; fourth, strengthen the cold Prevention and control of all links in the chain.
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