China News Service, Taiyuan, April 24 (Reporter Lu Qiguo) "We are all students. We came to Taiyuan on February 8 to participate in the training of 'promotion from college'. Since the end of March, we have been taking online classes at home since the end of March, and we have never left Taiyuan, let alone from Shanghai. I came back." In response to the online statement on April 23 that an asymptomatic infected person in Dongsheng Homestead, Wanbailin District, Taiyuan City, returned from Shanghai and concealed his itinerary, a close contact who lived in the same room as the infected person on the evening of the 23rd This is the response in a telephone interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com.

  On the evening of the 23rd, the Office of the Leading Group for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Taiyuan City issued a notice (No. 57, 2022) saying that on the 23rd, the Wanbailin District of the city reported a case of a positive result of the preliminary screening of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test. City experts consulted and diagnosed asymptomatic infection.

  Before the official announcement on the 23rd, online rumors that the infected person was diagnosed after returning to Taiyuan from Shanghai had spread on many social platforms.

  On the evening of the 23rd, a reporter from Chinanews.com contacted Li, who shared a house with the reported asymptomatic infected person.

Li told reporters that he and the reported asymptomatic infected person were college classmates.

Before the Spring Festival this year, they shared a house in Dongsheng Jiayuan and studied at a "specialized promotion" training institution in Taiyuan.

  On February 8, after receiving the notification from the tutoring institution that the class was about to start, Li and another classmate Guo took the G3144 high-speed train from Gaoping East High-speed Railway Station to Taiyuan.

The reported asymptomatic infected people also arrived in Taiyuan on the same day, and everyone stayed in the Dongsheng Homestead again.

  As for why the reported asymptomatic infected people went to the China Railway 12th Bureau Hospital to receive nucleic acid testing on their own, Li explained: On April 18, they participated in the third round of nucleic acid testing organized by Wanberlin District, and the results were all negative.

With the orderly lifting of temporary traffic restrictions in Wanbolin District on April 19, they are ready to return to their hometowns.

  "According to the management and control requirements of returning people, we need to do a nucleic acid test again." For this reason, at around 14:00 on the 22nd, Li and the reported asymptomatic infected person arrived at the China Railway 12th Bureau, which is closer to the rental home of Dongsheng. Hospitals accept nucleic acid tests.

At about 4 o'clock on the 23rd, the latter received a phone call saying that he was diagnosed as a positive infection.

  "Early this morning (April 23), I saw someone in the WeChat exchange group saying that we came back from Shanghai." Li Mou said that he and the reported asymptomatic infected person didn't care at all at that time, "We didn't care at all. If you haven't been to Shanghai, is there anyone who believes such an unreliable guess?"

  However, there are more and more versions of the rumors.

Some people on the Internet say that the reported asymptomatic infected person was discovered during the "14+7" quarantine period after returning to Taiyuan from Shanghai. After returning to Taiyuan from Shanghai, I changed my SIM card and ran around everywhere.

  From 12:00 to 16:00 on the 23rd, Li received more than a dozen strange calls.

"Most of the people calling us are blaming us," Li said.

  For the accusation of the strange caller, Li patiently explained to the other party.

"After listening to the explanation, the other party can basically understand." But what distressed Li and his classmates was that after the official announcement was released, there were still many people questioning and accusing them on the Internet.

  A reporter from Chinanews.com noticed that the notice issued by the Taiyuan New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group Office also confirmed Li's statement.

The announcement stated: "On February 8, I will come to join (Note: "join" is the abbreviation of Taiyuan) to participate in the training for college promotion, and start online classes at home at the end of March."

  At present, the reported asymptomatic infected person is receiving treatment, and the 4 students in the shared house are all under centralized isolation for medical observation.

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