(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The number of community-transmitted infections in Jilin and Jilin will continue to increase rapidly in the short term
China News Service, Changchun, March 11 (Tan Weiqi) Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Health and Health Commission, introduced in Changchun on the 11th that the community spread of the epidemic in Jilin City and Jiutai District of Changchun City is in a period of rapid rise. Regional nucleic acid testing, and the number of infected people detected by screening in a short period of time will continue to increase rapidly.
On the same day, the Jilin Provincial Government Information Office held a press conference to introduce the situation of epidemic prevention and control.
As of 13:00 on March 11, Jilin Province has reported a total of 526 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and a total of 590 asymptomatic infections.
Zhang Yan introduced that through the analysis of the whole genome of the virus, the virus strain in Jilin Province this time is the evolutionary branch of the Omicron variant strain BA.2.
Combined with the analysis of the genome sequencing and the epidemiological investigation of the previously reported infected persons, it is preliminarily judged that the epidemic was imported into the province in late February and spread locally.
Zhang Yan introduced that the outbreak occurred at the beginning of the spring semester, and the increase in cross-regional flow of people further accelerated the spread of the epidemic. Clusters of epidemics occurred in some schools. The situation of community prevention and control and campus prevention and control is severe and complicated, and prevention and control are difficult. Big.
In addition, activities such as gatherings and markets in rural areas of the province have also accelerated the spread of the epidemic, and clustered epidemics have occurred in some rural areas.
Zhang Yan introduced that the clinical symptoms of the infected people in this epidemic are not obvious, mainly asymptomatic or showing mild symptoms, and the infected people are difficult to detect in the early stage.
Among the reported infections, asymptomatic infections accounted for 52.87%; among the confirmed cases, mainly mild cases.
After individual infected persons were infected with the virus, the new coronavirus was only detected after multiple nucleic acid tests.
Zhang Yan said that in response to the severe situation of the rapid spread of the epidemic and its wide spread, Jilin Province's social control, flow survey, coordinated investigation, testing, isolation and other measures should have a wider scope, faster speed, and more accurate measures, so as to effectively achieve " It should be isolated", "should be managed despite", resolutely block the spread of the epidemic, and achieve the goal of social dynamic clearing as soon as possible.
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