(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Jilin Epidemic Situation Is Still Severe, Experts Answer Four Practical Questions
China News Service, Changchun, March 19 (Gao Longan and Li Dan) From 0-24 on March 18, Jilin Province added 1,674 new confirmed cases and 537 new asymptomatic infections.
On the 19th, the reporter sorted out the public concerns based on recent interviews and answers from relevant experts at the 40th press conference on Jilin Province's epidemic prevention and control work.
In Changchun, staff are delivering test samples.
Photo by Sun Yicong
1. What are the considerations for carrying out multiple rounds of nucleic acid testing for all employees in Jilin Province?
Yuan Zhixin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chief Physician of Jilin Provincial People's Hospital, introduced that the virus strain prevalent in this round of epidemic in Jilin Province is the Omicron variant, which has a large number of infected people, showing high viral load, fast transmission speed, and relatively high incidence. Due to the characteristics of concealment, strong infectivity, and difficulty in close inspection in close contact, it is necessary to carry out large-scale nucleic acid screening of all employees for many times to find out the risk of epidemic transmission at the social level as soon as possible, and to quickly "find out" positive infected persons as soon as possible.
Carrying out flow investigation and investigation around positive cases not only protects patients from becoming severe due to delayed detection, but also protects surrounding relatives and friends.
Second, the necessity of promoting antigen testing?
Tong Xueying, director of the Jilin Provincial Clinical Laboratory Center, said that antigen detection, as an important supplementary screening method for nucleic acid detection, has the biggest advantage of being convenient and fast.
Jilin Province is currently promoting the "antigen screening, nucleic acid diagnosis" detection mode, which can detect people in the acute infection stage in time.
Tong Xueying also emphasized that antigen detection cannot replace nucleic acid detection. It is fast and simple, but its sensitivity is not as good as nucleic acid detection.
If a community resident has a positive antigen test, they should report it to the community (village and town) where they live immediately.
3. How should the public protect themselves?
Chen Yukun, director of the infection control department of the First Hospital of Jilin University, said that the prevention and control of new coronary pneumonia should start with three aspects: controlling the source of infection, cutting off the route of transmission, and protecting susceptible people.
The first is prevention. Everyone must do personal protection and insist on wearing masks correctly.
The second is control. It is necessary to actively cooperate with nucleic acid testing and self-health monitoring. The new crown nucleic acid testing and the just-started antigen testing are effective means to detect infection.
The last is to reduce, reduce unnecessary going out, reduce the flow of people, and avoid going to places with poor ventilation. In the final analysis, staying at home is the best protection.
4. How can people who are quarantined, controlled and quarantined seek medical treatment?
Zhang Zhang, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Health and Health Commission, said that those who are closed, controlled, and quarantined really need to go out for medical treatment urgently, they should arrange a special car, provide a "point-to-point" pick-up service, and implement closed-loop management.
At the same time, it is necessary to make full use of the "Internet + medical service" method, effectively meet the needs of the masses for medical treatment through online diagnosis and treatment, promote scheduled diagnosis and treatment appointments, reduce the gathering of personnel in medical institutions, and reduce the risk of cross-infection.
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