China News Agency, Beijing, March 14. Comprehensive news: China's National Health Commission announced on the 14th that there were 1,437 new confirmed cases in mainland China on the 13th, including 100 imported cases and 1,337 local cases.

There were 906 new asymptomatic infections, including 118 imported cases and 788 local cases.

  As of 24:00 on the 13th, there are 8,531 confirmed cases in mainland China, a total of 4,636 deaths, and a total of 116,902 confirmed cases.

There are currently 2,610 confirmed cases imported from abroad, with a total of 16,337 confirmed cases and no deaths.

Local cases in mainland China remain high Zhang Wenhong: Don't be afraid

  On the 13th, there were 2,125 new local cases in mainland China (1,337 confirmed cases and 788 asymptomatic cases), a decrease of nearly 1,000 cases from the previous day (3,122 cases), but still at a high level.

  The new local confirmed cases on the day were distributed in 17 provinces. The top 10 were: Jilin 895, Shandong 92, Guangdong 79, Shaanxi 60, Hebei 51, Shanghai 41, Tianjin 40, Jiangsu 16, Gansu 12 cases and 10 cases in Fujian.

Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Beijing, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guangxi also have new local diagnoses.

  The new local asymptomatic infections came from 16 provinces, including Hebei (162 cases), Guangdong (151 cases), Jilin (131 cases), Shanghai (128 cases), and 97 cases in Shandong Province.

It is worth mentioning that there were 4 cases of local asymptomatic infection in Jiangxi Province, which is the first local infection in the province recently.

So far, in the past six days, the number of local cases in mainland China has expanded to 27 provinces.

  In the first 12 days of March, local cases in mainland China (confirmed cases + asymptomatic infections) increased significantly, from 119 on the 1st to 3,122 on the 12th.

Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, posted on his personal social media on the 14th that the epidemic is raging and "currently in the early stage of an exponential rise."

  But he said the virus was significantly less virulent this time around.

In addition, vaccination has greatly reduced the severe disease rate, and there have been no deaths so far.

Therefore, in the face of a sudden epidemic, the first thing to do is to eliminate fear.

He believes that this epidemic is "not so much a winter that has not passed, but a cold spring", and there is no need to be afraid.

There are still 3868 people who were initially screened positive in Jilin Province, and the epidemic situation in Laixi, Qingdao continues to improve

  Jilin Province announced on the 14th that from 0-14:00 on the same day, 144 new local confirmed cases and 9 local asymptomatic infections were added in Jilin Province.

As of 12:00 on the 14th, there were still 3,868 cases of people who were initially screened positive in Jilin Province. They are the people who were initially screened positive and awaiting clinical diagnosis in key areas of the recent epidemic.

  Jilin City is currently the area with the most cases in Jilin Province.

As of 24:00 on the 13th, Jilin City has reported a total of 1,478 local confirmed cases and 1,378 asymptomatic infections in this round of epidemic.

In view of the early medical resources and pressure of treatment in Jilin City, nearly 1,000 infected people in Jilin City have been transferred to designated hospitals in Siping, Liaoyuan, Meihekou and other places for treatment.

  In order to reduce the risk of epidemic spillover and transmission, Jilin Province has announced a ban on inter-provincial and inter-regional movement of people in the province.

  According to a report from Qingdao City on the 14th, from 12:00 on the 13th to 12:00 on the 14th, Qingdao Laixi added 29 local confirmed cases, and another 20 asymptomatic infections were converted into confirmed cases.

21 new cases of asymptomatic infection were added.

The number of new local confirmed and asymptomatic infections decreased by 36 and 42 respectively from the previous day.

As of 12:00 on the 14th, Lacey reported a total of 741 local confirmed cases and 926 asymptomatic infections in this round of epidemic.

  Qingdao officials said that at present, the number of new local cases in Laixi City continues to decrease, and the eighth round of nucleic acid testing has not detected positive infections in the prevention area, indicating that the epidemic prevention and control situation continues to improve.

2 primary school students in Beijing diagnosed with Shenzhen epidemic have high risk of community spread

  Beijing held a press conference on the 14th, saying that from 15:00 on the 13th to 16:00 on the 14th, 5 new cases were confirmed locally in Beijing, including 2 primary school students.

  According to the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the two student cases have two suspicious exposure histories: one is the possibility of introducing the virus to the family due to parents leaving Beijing; the other is that it is not ruled out that they were exposed to virus contamination while participating in off-campus offline training. the possibility of infection from the environment or from contact with an infected person.

  Beijing officials reiterated that they will not be in Beijing in the near future.

Emphasizing the need to attach great importance to school epidemic prevention, the city's off-campus training institutions suspend offline training.

  Shenzhen, Guangdong Province added 75 local confirmed cases and 11 asymptomatic infections on the 13th.

Shenzhen announced on the 14th that the number of cases in Shenzhen has fluctuated again in recent days, and there have been several small-scale clustered outbreaks in urban villages and factories, suggesting that there is a high risk of community spread.

With the deepening of nucleic acid screening of all employees in the city, the possibility that the number of positive cases will continue to increase cannot be ruled out.

  In order to curb the continued spread of the epidemic, Shenzhen has comprehensively upgraded prevention and control measures.

From March 14th to 20th, Shenzhen stopped all non-essential mobile activities, the city's public transportation and subways were suspended, the city's community communities, urban villages, and industrial parks implemented closed management, and the city's personnel were not required to leave Shenzhen.

The source of the epidemic in Hangzhou may be contaminated foreign items. Experts say that dinner parties are one of the main transmission methods of this round of epidemic.

  Hangzhou City reported on the 14th that from 8:00 on the 13th to 12:00 on the 14th, 6 new confirmed cases were reported in the city.

As of 12:00 on the 14th, a total of 52 local confirmed cases have been reported in the city, affecting 6 districts, including 48 in Yuhang District, mainly employees of a express transit station.

  According to reports, the Yuhang epidemic has the characteristics of multiple points, multiple sources, multiple occurrences, simultaneous interpretation of characters, wide coverage, and strong secrecy. All related cases belong to the same transmission chain, which is more likely to be caused by contamination in logistics enterprises. After the foreign goods caused the operator to be infected, the subsequent transmission was caused by human-to-human transmission.

After the contaminated express items were delivered to other express outlets, some subsequent couriers who were not in the logistics park were infected.

  Shaanxi Province added 60 local confirmed cases on the 13th. Since March 5, a total of 192 local confirmed cases have been reported in this round of the epidemic (109 in Baoji, 71 in Xi'an, 11 in Hanzhong, and 1 in Yangling), of which nearly two were in Baoji City. There are 76 new confirmed cases in Japan.

  Shaanxi disease control experts said that the Omicron BA2 subtype is highly contagious, spreads very fast, restaurants are relatively closed, people gather and stay for a long time, and masks cannot be worn during meals. Therefore, gatherings and restaurants have become the current round. It is one of the main ways and places of transmission of the epidemic.

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