On the evening of August 10, the Information Office of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held a press conference on the new crown pneumonia epidemic and epidemic prevention and control work.
Ke Ming, director of the Urumqi Municipal Health and Health Commission, introduced at a press conference that as of 16:00 on August 10, there were no confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Urumqi, and a total of 38 asymptomatic infections had been reported.
In this outbreak in Urumqi, the results of the virus gene sequencing showed that it was a mutant strain of Omicron BA.5.2. This strain has stronger immune escape ability, stronger transmission power, and faster transmission speed, which led to the outbreak of the epidemic. Stealth is stronger.
It took only a few days from the discovery of the first positive case in Urumqi City to the detection of multiple positive persons one after another. The source of the virus was unknown and multiple chains were running in parallel, affecting many districts (counties) in the city. The situation of prevention and control was extremely complicated and severe. .
(Reporter Zhao Yamin)
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]