(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The number of infected cases in Linyi, Shandong began to decline and the social face was cleared
China News Service, Linyi, July 12 (Li Mingrui) "At present, the social aspect of Linyi City has been cleared, and no new positive infections have been found in medium and high-risk areas. The key personnel quarantined have not been found to have positive infections of unknown origin, and the chain of transmission is basically clear." Zhang Xiaoli, chief expert on infectious disease prevention and control in Linyi City, Shandong Province, reported at the city's epidemic prevention and control news conference on the 12th that since July 6, , the number of positive infections in the city began to decline on July 11 after five consecutive days of fluctuating increases.
This round of local epidemic in Linyi City began on July 6 when an asymptomatic infection was found among the regular nucleic acid testing population in Lanshan District.
The infected persons are employees of individual packaging wholesale and retail households.
Zhang Xiaoli said that Linyi controlled the epidemic to a minimum in a short period of time and did not cause the epidemic to spill over.
"At present, the social transmission chain in Linyi City is basically blocked, and the epidemic prevention and control situation is stable and improving. According to the transmission characteristics of the Omicron strain, the number of new positive infections will continue to decline in the future."
Centralized isolation medical observation is the main measure to cut off the transmission route of the epidemic.
To this end, Linyi City has set up 317 centralized isolation points and 69,144 rooms in the city, including 18 large-scale shelter isolation points and 17,394 rooms.
At the same time, all transfer personnel in the city have undergone nucleic acid testing, implemented secondary protection, and fixed a batch of special-purpose vehicles for transfer, and implemented closed-loop management and environmental disinfection throughout the process to eliminate the possibility of spillover from the source of infection.
In response to the fact that there are many students in the centralized isolation of the epidemic, Wu Guangjiang, director of the Linyi Education Bureau, introduced that the city has set up a "help package" special class.
Taking the class as a unit, 152 special service classes composed of class teachers and classroom teachers have been established. They communicate with students, answer questions and solve doubts by telephone and video every day, and carry out "all-round" psychological care and provide mental health education. The course guides students to do a good job of self-regulation.
It is reported that from 0:00 to 24:00 on July 11, 2 new local confirmed cases in Linyi City, all of which were mild, were found in centralized isolation points; 54 new local asymptomatic infections, including 53 cases in Lanling County, 1 case in the mountainous area was found in the centralized isolation point, and the above personnel have been transferred to the designated hospital for isolation observation and treatment.
Another 5 local asymptomatic infections turned into confirmed cases.
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