China News Service, Urumqi, August 10 (Reporter Wang Xiaojun) The reporter learned from the press conference on the new crown pneumonia epidemic and epidemic prevention and control held in Xinjiang on the evening of the 10th that as of 16:00 on August 10, there were no confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in Urumqi. A total of 38 cases of asymptomatic infection have been reported.
"In this epidemic, the source of the virus is unknown, and multiple chains are running in parallel, affecting many districts (counties) in the city."
Ke Ming, director of the Urumqi Municipal Health Commission, said at a press conference that in the current outbreak in Urumqi, the virus gene sequencing results showed that it was a mutant strain of Omicron BA.5.2. Strong transmission power and faster transmission speed make the outbreak more invisible.
It took only a few days from the discovery of the first positive case in Urumqi to the successive detection of multiple positive persons. The source of the virus was unknown and multiple chains were running in parallel, affecting many districts (counties) in the city.
Yesterday, there were 27 new cases of asymptomatic infections in a single day, and the situation of prevention and control is extremely complicated and severe.
Ke Ming said that after the outbreak of the epidemic, Urumqi immediately launched an emergency plan, shifting from normal prevention and control to emergency response. The city and district (county) headquarters jointly fought, flattened command and dispatch, and vigorously promoted the emergency response to the epidemic. .
According to his introduction, Urumu's entire city's transfer teams at all levels acted quickly, accurately scouting out closely-connected personnel, managing and controlling while transferring, and fully closed the loop to prevent the spillover and spread of the epidemic.
Timely and scientifically delineated 28 high- and medium-risk areas, implemented community-based prevention and control measures, and implemented control measures such as “staying at home and providing door-to-door services” in high-risk areas, and “people not leaving the area and picking things at different peaks” in medium-risk areas. And adopt the "strict control + warm service" model to timely solve the worries of people who are isolated at home.
Adhere to "early collection and late release", take the measures of "do not collect nucleic acid, leave the community", and send border inspection while collecting, to ensure full coverage of nucleic acid testing and no omissions.
Strictly carry out environmental monitoring and disinfection of places where asymptomatic infected persons move tracks.
To suspend the holding of gathering activities, urge large-scale supermarkets, transportation stations, farmers' markets and other crowded places to strictly implement measures such as "temperature measurement + wearing masks + scanning code verification", and strengthen the management of key places.
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