(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Beijing reports 11 of 12 local confirmed cases related to training in other provinces
China News Agency, Beijing, February 23 (Reporter Du Yan) From 11:00 on February 22 to 11:00 on February 23, Beijing added 8 new confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia.
As of 11:00 on February 23, Beijing had reported 12 local confirmed cases in this round of the epidemic, of which 11 were personnel and their families who participated in a training course of a company in other provinces, and 1 was a close contact of a confirmed case in Inner Mongolia.
This is what the reporter learned from the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia in Beijing held on the 23rd.
From 0:00 to 11:00 on February 22, Beijing added 4 new confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia, all of whom were staff members and their families who participated in a company training course in other provinces from February 17 to 20.
Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press conference on the 23rd that from 11:00 on February 22 to 11:00 on February 23, there were 8 new local confirmed cases in Beijing, of which 7 were participating in a company in other provinces. One of the training class personnel was a close contact of a confirmed case in Inner Mongolia.
The 12 cases involved Haidian District, Xicheng District, Fengtai District, Chaoyang District, Shunyi District, Tongzhou District and Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone in Beijing.
Liu Xiaofeng said that at present, epidemiological investigations and close contact tracing have been carried out, investigation of risk points has been carried out, and various types of risk personnel have been classified and controlled.
Those who intersect with the trajectory of the case's activities and those who receive a pop-up reminder from the health treasure should immediately report to the community and cooperate with the implementation of various prevention and control measures.
Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Government, pointed out at the meeting that the presence of imported cases in Beijing once again sounded the alarm, and the prevention and control of the epidemic must not be paralyzed.
Beijing must adhere to the general strategy of "preventing imports from abroad and preventing rebound from within", and scientifically and accurately conduct case investigations and risk personnel screening.
Relevant areas should quickly implement the sealing and control of risk points, nucleic acid testing and environmental sampling in accordance with the plan.
He emphasized that it is necessary to strictly implement the policy of entering and returning to Beijing, strictly control the entry and return of people from medium and high-risk areas, and strengthen remote screening for people in other areas. Only with a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours and a Beijing Health Treasure green code can enter Back to Beijing.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the normalized internal screening of the society, and continue to do a good job in nucleic acid testing and health monitoring of key industries, key groups, and people entering and returning to Beijing.
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