(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The sequencing results of local cases in Xiamen, Zhangquan and Quanzhou are announced

　　China News Service, Fuzhou, March 15 (Reporter Long Min Zheng Jiangluo) The Fujian Provincial Health Commission reported on the 15th that from March 1 to 24:00 on March 14, Fujian Province reported a total of 51 imported positive infections, including confirmed cases. 38 cases and 13 asymptomatic infections.

A total of 44 local confirmed cases have been reported.

Among them: Quanzhou reported 41 cases and Xiamen reported 3 cases.

　　According to the information released by Quanzhou City on March 14, on March 12, the Fengze District Center for Disease Control and Prevention found 6 tubes of 1:10 mixed samples were positive in the nucleic acid test of the people who "should be tested" at the Quanxiu sampling point. A total of 60 people involved were tested for one person and one tube, and a total of 9 people were found to be positive in the initial nucleic acid screening, and the Quanzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention had a positive review result.

As of 21:00 on March 14, 1,096 people in close contact and 1,395 people in close contact have been investigated, and isolation and control measures have been implemented.

　　Zhang Yongyu, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Health and Health Commission, pointed out that a total of 2.33 million nucleic acid samples were collected in the city, of which 690,000 nucleic acid samples were collected for all staff in Fengze District, and all the results have been obtained.

The sequencing results of the nucleic acid sample of the case in Quanzhou showed that it belonged to the evolutionary branch of the Omicron variant (BA.2).

According to the analysis of the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, no highly homologous sequences could be found in the known sequences of the new coronavirus in China.

　　In terms of the epidemic situation in Xiamen, on the evening of March 11, Xiamen reported a positive nucleic acid test for a close contact from other provinces.

As of 24:00 on March 14, provincial and municipal experts had initially screened 148 cases in close contact and 548 in sub-close contact, all of which have been put under control.

The residential area of ​​the case was sealed and controlled, and 1,257 people were screened, and the nucleic acid results were all negative.

A total of 262 external environmental samples were collected from railway stations, subway stations, residential quarters, elevators, self-driving cars, etc., and the tests were all negative.

　　Zhang Yongyu pointed out that the nucleic acid sequencing results of the case in Xiamen showed that it belonged to the Omicron variant (BA.2), which was different from the cases in Longyan and Zhangzhou.

　　In terms of the epidemic situation in Zhangzhou, on March 11, Zhangzhou City reported that one case of asymptomatic infection was found in the routine nucleic acid testing and screening in schools.

As of 24:00 on March 14, 75 people were identified as close contacts, and 716 people were identified as second-close contacts.

Three rounds of nucleic acid tests have been carried out, and the results are all negative; the first round of nucleic acid tests for all employees in Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone was 262,200, and the second round of nucleic acid tests for all employees was 271,700, and the results were negative; external environment samples were collected. 175 of them were negative.

　　Zhang Yongyu said that the sequencing results of Xiamen CDC showed that it belonged to the Omicron variant (BA.1.1); compared with the sequence of the Longyan case Hong, there were 7 mutational site differences; compared with the Xiamen entry case database , no highly homologous sequences were found.

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