China News Service, August 9. According to the WeChat public account of "Lhasa Release", on the morning of August 9, the first press conference in 2022 of the Leading Group for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Lhasa, Tibet was held.
Yan Zhouzhong, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Lhasa Municipal Health and Health Commission, introduced that from the analysis of the new coronary pneumonia cases and virus whole gene sequencing results reported since August 7, the current round of the epidemic in Lhasa has three characteristics: First, the infection of this epidemic The virus strain is Omicron BA.2.76.
Second, the results of epidemiological investigation and environmental sampling indicated that the epidemic was imported.
The third is family gatherings.
Yan Zhouzhong said that Omicron is not equivalent to "big flu", and its transmission is far greater than that of influenza and other variants of the new coronavirus.
The existing vaccines have a certain protective effect on the Omicron variant, and can play a good preventive effect on severe cases and death. The general public is requested to actively vaccinate against the new crown vaccine, especially the third booster vaccine.
In order to reduce the risk of infection and protect public health, citizens should reduce unnecessary going out and go to closed places. If they must go out, they should wear masks and maintain a social distance of more than one meter from others in public places. Long stay in crowded place.
Yan Zhouzhong mentioned that the general public is requested to conscientiously follow the requirements of the "Basic Code of Conduct for Citizens' Epidemic Prevention", and do a solid job of protection. They must participate in nucleic acid testing on time, and consciously abide by wearing masks when going out, scanning "Zang Yitong" in public places, and taking temperature. , inspection of nucleic acid test results and other epidemic prevention requirements.
Once symptoms such as fever occur, seek medical attention as soon as possible at a fever clinic and avoid public transportation.