On August 3, Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control.

At the meeting, Jiang Fachun, chief expert of the Qingdao Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the results of the epidemiological survey showed that the gene sequencing results of a local confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia (light) found in Jiaozhou City on the 2nd showed that it was the new coronavirus Omicron variant BA. .2.2.1, determine that the variant strain is highly homologous to the new coronavirus strain found in the epidemic area in other provinces where the confirmed case once lived.

  According to Zhao Jianlei, director of the Jiaozhou Municipal Health Bureau, the case was found in the nucleic acid test of people who returned to Jiaozhou in centralized isolation from other provinces.

After investigation, the nucleic acid test results of the case were negative for three consecutive days from July 30 to August 1.

On the morning of August 2, the close contact of a positive person from another province was determined to be a close contact of a positive person from another province. They were transported by a special vehicle to a centralized isolation point for centralized isolation medical observation, and the nucleic acid test result carried out immediately was positive.

  Guo Xiaozhong, deputy mayor of the Jiaozhou Municipal People's Government, said that at present, the case is being treated in isolation in a designated hospital.

The hospital actively carried out related treatment work in accordance with the treatment plan of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Currently, the patient's condition is stable.

(Yue Ziyan made by Hu Yaojie)

Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]