(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Guangzhou Epidemic Spread Index dropped from 5.7 to 1.7
China News Agency, Guangzhou, April 13 (Wang Hua and Zhang Hengyuan) On the 13th, 29 new local infections were reported in Guangzhou, but there was also good news. The relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control pointed out that the epidemic spread index has increased from the highest level. 5.7 dropped to 1.7, and the epidemic is generally controllable.
The Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission reported on the same day that from 15:00 on April 12 to 15:00 on the 13th, there were 29 new local infections of the new coronavirus in the city, including 21 confirmed cases and 8 asymptomatic infections.
The newly infected people are all related to the previously announced cases in Baiyun District or the places where the clustered outbreak occurred.
Since April 8, a total of 103 local infections of the new coronavirus have been reported in this round of epidemic in Guangzhou, and all of them are currently being treated in the Eighth Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou Medical University, and their condition is stable.
The city has carried out multiple rounds of nucleic acid screening for all staff, but recently, infection cases have been identified among non-close contact groups, reminding that the current epidemic still poses a risk of community transmission.
Chen Bin, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission, said that measures such as personnel movement and health management in the control area will be further refined.
Guangzhou CDC spokesperson Zhang Zhoubin said that according to the epidemiological investigation and nucleic acid screening, the city's epidemic situation is improving and controllable as a whole, mainly based on two judgments: from the perspective of discovery methods, among the 29 newly infected people , 28 people (96.6%) were found in centralized isolation points and control areas, only 1 person was found in prevention areas, and no new infections were found in areas outside prevention areas, control areas, and closed control areas; the epidemic spread index has increased from At the beginning of the epidemic, the highest level of 5.7 dropped to 1.7, that is, the number of people who could infect one infected person during an infectious period dropped from 5.7 to 1.7.
Zhang Zhoubin believes that the above two points show that since the outbreak of the epidemic in Guangzhou on April 8, various prevention and control measures have achieved good results. However, it has only been 5 days since the outbreak of the epidemic, and many measures and data need to be further consolidated and observed. The transmission index needs to fall below 1 and maintain an incubation period to be considered to have basically blocked the spread of the epidemic. Therefore, the next few days are still very critical.
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