China News Service, Xi'an, March 8 (Yang Yingqi) "Judging from the current situation of epidemiology, in this epidemic, except for the confirmed case 1 from Shaanxi Province, which was found by self-testing, and case 2, except for the passengers on the same flight of case 1, there were 12 other cases. The cases are all close contacts and sub-close contacts of confirmed cases after returning to Shaanxi from outside the province, and one case overlaps with time and space. These 13 cases belong to the same transmission chain, and the transmission chain is clear." Lv Yongpeng, deputy director of Xi'an Municipal Health and Health Commission said on the 8th.
On the afternoon of the same day, the Information Office of the Xi'an Municipal Government held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic to report the latest situation of the city's epidemic prevention and control work.
From 8:00 on March 7 to 8:00 on March 8, Xi'an reported 9 new local confirmed cases, all of which have been closed-loop transferred to designated medical institutions for isolation and treatment, and their condition is stable.
The city has a total of 15 confirmed cases since March 5.
At present, Xi'an is fully in-depth to trace the source of flow regulation.
On the 7th, the city's flow investigation team increased from 32 to 100, and the recent activity trajectories of all cases were analyzed in detail. As of 12:00 on the 8th, there were 4,519 local confirmed cases in close contact with Category B and 8,638 people in Category C. .
The remaining close contacts are being traced in depth, and letters of assistance have been issued to those who have left the city.
At the same time, Xi'an quickly sealed and controlled high-risk places and carried out sterilization.
Temporary control measures will be taken for relevant places with higher risks, and terminal sterilization will be carried out simultaneously.
The city temporarily controlled 201 high-risk places with a total of 85,889 people.
1,641 high-risk places have been sterilized and disinfected, with an accumulative sterilization area of 4,205,400 square meters.
Lv Yongpeng said that because the Omicron variant is more contagious, spreads faster, and spreads more insidiously, the symptoms of infection are not typical and lack specific manifestations, making it difficult to detect at the first time, and more likely to be scattered or concentrated at multiple points. outbreak.
According to the analysis and judgment of the expert group, on the 8th, the city will continue to carry out a new round of expanded nucleic acid screening. For some key areas and risk points, multiple rounds of nucleic acid screening will be carried out according to the judgment of experts, so as to do their best to block the risk of epidemic transmission.
According to Chen Jianfeng, deputy director of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Commerce, shopping malls and supermarkets have high personnel density and high mobility, and are key areas for epidemic prevention and control.
In response to the current situation of epidemic prevention and control, Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Commerce has strengthened the monitoring of market operation and the operation scheduling of key supply enterprises.
Monitoring on the 7th showed that the daily purchase volume and transaction volume of the six key vegetable wholesale markets were stable at 12,000 tons.
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