(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) 28 infected people have been found in this round of epidemic in Tianjin or related to contaminated imported cold chain food
China News Agency, Tianjin, May 16 (Yang Ziyang, Sun Lingling) Tianjin officials announced on the evening of the 16th that a total of 28 cases of new coronavirus infections have been found in this round of local epidemics in the city, and they are initially considered to be related to contaminated imported cold chain food.
Gu Qing, deputy secretary-general of the Tianjin Municipal Government and director of the Municipal Health Commission, introduced at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control on the 16th that as of 18:00 on May 16, a total of 28 cases of new coronavirus infection had been found in this round of local epidemics in the city, of which , 18 cases in Beichen District and 10 cases in Dongli District have been transferred to designated hospitals in time for isolation and treatment.
Some cases in Dongli District and Beichen District have a history of working in cold storage in Jinzhong Street, Dongli District, and it is initially considered that this round of local epidemic is related to contaminated imported cold chain food.
After the outbreak, Tianjin quickly assembled a city-level epidemiological and traceability team to dispatch to the epidemic-related areas to carry out emergency response.
As of 18:00 on May 16, 105 close contacts were traced, 154 secondary close contacts, and 62 other risk personnel, all of which have completed centralized isolation.
Other investigation and testing work is still in progress.
A total of 488 items and environmental samples were collected from relevant places. Except for 23 positive samples from the residence and working environment of infected persons, all other samples were negative, especially those stored in the cold storage on Admiralty Street, Dongli District. Positives were detected in imported cold chain food packaging and environmental samples.
All epidemic-related places are subject to terminal disinfection.
On May 16, the Tianjin CDC analyzed the whole genome sequence of the virus in the relevant case samples, which belonged to the Omicron variant strain (VOC/Omicron, BA.2 evolutionary branch), which was closely related to the recent local cases in Tianjin and other provinces. The sequences of local cases imported from Tianjin are all of different origins.
Epidemiological investigations show that some cases in Dongli District and Beichen District have a history of working in cold storage in Jinzhong Street, Dongli District. It is preliminarily considered that this round of local epidemic is related to contaminated imported cold chain food.
Tianjin officials said that at present, the current round of the epidemic is in the developing stage, the epidemic situation was detected in a timely manner, and the epidemic risk was generally controllable.
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