China News Agency, Beijing, March 17. Comprehensive news: The National Health and Health Commission of China reported on the 17th that there were 1,317 new confirmed cases in mainland China on the 16th, including 91 imported cases and 1,226 local cases.
There were 1,310 new asymptomatic infections, including 104 imported cases and 1,206 local cases.
As of 24:00 on the 16th, there were 14,850 confirmed cases in mainland China, a total of 4,636 deaths, and a total of 123,773 confirmed cases.
There are currently 2,524 confirmed cases imported from abroad, with a total of 16,615 confirmed cases and no deaths.
The epidemic situation of nearly 400 medium and high-risk areas in mainland China is generally improving
On the 16th, there were 1,226 new local confirmed cases in mainland China, more than 1,000 cases for five consecutive days, but two consecutive days of decline.
New local confirmed cases are distributed in 20 provinces, of which Jilin Province still has the most cases with 742 cases, and another 10 provinces have reached double digits: 99 cases in Fujian, 83 cases in Guangdong, 62 cases in Liaoning, 48 cases in Tianjin, 38 cases in Hebei, and 36 cases in Shandong. There are 27 cases in Zhejiang, 26 in Shaanxi, 16 in Heilongjiang and 12 in Gansu.
There were 1,206 new asymptomatic infections that day, more than 1,000 cases for three consecutive days, involving 17 provinces.
Among them, Jilin (415 cases), Hebei (178 cases), and Shanghai (150 cases) exceeded 100 cases.
Five other provinces have more than 40 cases: 96 in Shandong, 94 in Liaoning, 70 in Guangdong, 67 in Jiangsu and 42 in Fujian.
The State Council's epidemic risk level inquiry applet shows that as of 15:00 on the 17th, there are 392 medium and high risk areas in mainland China.
Among them, 23 are high-risk areas, distributed in 10 provinces: 7 in Shandong, 4 in Tianjin, 2 each in Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shaanxi, and Gansu, and 1 each in Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, and Fujian.
There are 369 medium-risk areas, located in 19 provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia.
Although the increasing number of local cases in mainland China is still at a high level, it is generally in a downward trend, especially in Jilin, Shandong and Guangdong, where the current round of epidemics is more serious, the epidemic situation is improving.
Jilin's new local confirmed cases are the lowest in the past 5 days, Fujian and Quanzhou strengthen social control
Jilin Province added 742 new local confirmed cases on the 16th, the lowest number of local confirmed cases in the past five days.
On the same day, there were 415 new cases of local asymptomatic infections in the province.
Since March, Jilin Province has reported more than 11,000 local infections.
The current round of the epidemic in the province is the evolutionary branch of the Omicron variant BA.2, and 98% of the infected people are concentrated in Jilin and Changchun.
Jilin Province held a press conference on the 17th to announce that the province will further implement a full-staff screening plan to detect potential positive infections in a timely manner; strengthen the infrastructure construction and drug material reserves of designated hospitals to ensure centralized treatment needs; Do a good job of isolation, and at the same time prevent the spillover of the epidemic at the isolation point and cross-infection; do a good job in the elimination of key areas to eliminate the hidden danger of epidemic transmission.
On the 16th, Fujian Province added 99 local confirmed cases and 42 asymptomatic infections, mainly from Quanzhou City.
As of 8:00 on the 17th, Quanzhou has reported a total of 367 local cases (216 confirmed cases and 151 asymptomatic infections).
Quanzhou City held a press conference on the 17th, saying that the city quickly managed and controlled risk personnel to minimize the risk of the spread of the epidemic.
At the same time, social control was strengthened. Residential communities in counties (cities, districts) with epidemics implemented closed-loop control of entry and exit, and outsiders were not allowed to enter without approval. 33 expressway toll stations in the city were controlled.
8 people infected at a dinner party in Beijing Zhang Wenhong talks about the "three weapons" to fight the epidemic
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported on the 17th that from 16:00 on the 16th to 16:00 on the 17th, 7 new local confirmed cases and 1 asymptomatic infection were newly diagnosed in Beijing. A total of 60 local infections have been reported in this epidemic.
According to reports, there was a clustered outbreak caused by a dinner party in Beijing.
An infected person developed fever symptoms on March 7 and did not seek medical treatment. On the 10th, he had a dinner with 4 people in a roast duck restaurant.
So far, all 5 people in the group have been diagnosed, and 3 restaurant waiters have been infected.
Beijing officials said that according to the characteristics of the epidemic in Beijing, it is necessary to focus on key risk points such as schools, families and restaurants.
It is necessary to focus on the prevention and control of the epidemic in schools, and strengthen the investigation and control of confirmed cases and those who have the intersection of time and space trajectories.
It is necessary to strictly manage entry and return to Beijing, and implement epidemic prevention policies such as restricting entry and return to Beijing.
Shanghai added 8 local confirmed cases and 150 local asymptomatic infections on the 16th. As of 24:00 on the 16th, Shanghai currently has 103 local confirmed cases in hospital, and 1106 local asymptomatic infections are still under medical observation. example.
Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Shanghai Huashan Hospital, said on the 17th that adequate injection of vaccines, strong support of antiviral drugs and other drugs including traditional Chinese medicine, and very sufficient medical redundancy are the "three weapons for people to fight the epidemic in the future." ".
The situation of epidemic prevention and control in Shenzhen is improving, and the number of local confirmed cases in Shandong has been increasing for five consecutive days.
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province reported 91 new local cases on the 16th, including 71 confirmed cases and 20 asymptomatic infections.
Shenzhen officials said on the 17th that the nucleic acid testing of all employees in Shenzhen is progressing smoothly. Most of the cases were found in the closed control areas and centralized isolation points. In the single digits, some key areas have taken the lead in realizing the dynamic clearing of social aspects, and the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control in the city has become stable and controllable and continues to improve.
Shandong Province announced on the 17th that on the 16th, the province added 26 local confirmed cases, 96 asymptomatic infections, and 10 asymptomatic infections were transferred to the diagnosis.
The new cases that day were mainly from key groups in the isolation and control area, and the number of new local confirmed cases in the province dropped for 5 consecutive days.
Laixi City, Qingdao is the key area of this round of epidemic in Shandong Province.
Qingdao officials said on the 17th that as of 24:00 on the 16th, Qingdao Laixi had reported a total of 815 local confirmed cases and 932 asymptomatic infections in the current round of the epidemic. The total amount continued to decline, which indicated that the prevention and control measures in Laixi City were effective, and the overall situation of the epidemic continued to improve.
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