On March 8, the Information Office of the People's Government of Shaanxi Province held a press conference to introduce the epidemic prevention and control work in Shaanxi Province.
Ma Guanghui, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Health and Health Commission, said that the sequencing results of the first and second cases in this round of epidemic in Shaanxi Province showed that they were both the BA.2 evolutionary branch of the Omicron variant strain.
One of the 2 people dined with people from Shaanxi Province at Yuezhenxuan Restaurant and Xiaoyang Roast Meat Restaurant in Xi'an City. Since March 7, Xi'an, Baoji and Hanzhong have dined at the same table and restaurant as cases from other provinces. Personnel and service employees of the same barbecue restaurant have been diagnosed one after another, and further infected family members, showing a high degree of gathering in places and families, and the chain of transmission is clear.
(Gao Cheng Mei Ying Taki)
Responsible editor: [Ye Pan]