China News Service, Shenzhen, January 16 (Zhu Zuying) Lin Hancheng, a second-level inspector of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, said at a press conference held on the evening of the 16th that on January 16, two new cases of new coronary pneumonia were added in Shenzhen. Confirmed cases, one of which was genetically sequenced as an Omicron variant.
As of 21:00 on January 16, a total of 17 cases have been reported in this round of epidemic in Shenzhen.
Lin Hancheng said that at present, the Shenzhen CDC has completed the whole genome sequencing of the new coronavirus in case 16 and case 17.
Case 16 is the evolutionary branch of the delta variant strain AY.103, which is 100% homologous to the new coronavirus sequences from cases 1 to 8, and cases 11 to 15; the gene sequencing result of case 17 is the Omicron variant.
At the same time, among the 17 cases reported in Shenzhen, the first 16 cases belong to the same transmission chain, which is related to each other, and the chain is clear; Case 17 is a new independent epidemic, and the traceability of the epidemic is in progress.
According to reports, the new case 16, female, 24 years old, an employee of a company in Longgang District, Shenzhen, lives in Guangyayuan Village, Bantian Street, Longgang District. She is a colleague of Case 2. She was previously concentrated as a close contact on January 7. Isolation and observation, diagnosed as a confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia (common type).
New case 17, female, 21 years old, employee of a company in Longgang District, Shenzhen, mainly engaged in the receipt and delivery of overseas frozen chemical reagents. She lives in Lanyi Village, Longxin Community, Baolong Street, Longgang District. In the third round of active nucleic acid screening in Pingshan District, it was found that it was diagnosed as a confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia (mild).
After preliminary investigation, the main activities of the new cases involved the 12th floor of Jiaye Plaza, Longgang District, Macau Maiji Dabao (Pengda Road Store), Pengda Road Stone Mill Breakfast, and Wuhua Meatball Soup Noodle Store (Pengda Road Store) ), Pengda Road Breakfast Fast Food Congee Noodles, Pengda Road Daojiang Beef Restaurant; Pingshan District Hongling Community No. 1 Lane, Pingshan District Maternal and Child Health Hospital Fever Clinic, Linjia Tang Lao Mala Tang (Kengzi Store), Zhongxing Road Wen Tian Xian Cut fresh pork offal.
In addition, because the activity trajectory of Case 17 involved Shenzhen Pingshan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, in the early morning of the 16th, according to the requirements of emergency response regulations for epidemic prevention and control, the hospital cooperated with relevant urban departments to carry out emergency response, and implemented personnel screening and control and environmental sample sampling. and other prevention and control measures, and suspend outpatient and emergency medical services.
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