(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) 175,000 passengers in Hainan have returned smoothly, and Urumqi has returned to normal production and living order in an orderly manner
China News Agency, Beijing, August 23. Comprehensive news: China's National Health Commission announced on the 23rd that there were 382 new confirmed cases in mainland China on the 22nd, of which 74 were imported from abroad and 308 were local.
There were 1,513 new asymptomatic infections, including 73 imported cases and 1,440 local cases.
No new deaths were reported.
As of 24:00 on the 22nd, there are 8,391 confirmed cases in mainland China, a total of 5,226 deaths, and a total of 240,233 confirmed cases.
There are 712 confirmed cases imported from abroad, with a total of 22,075 confirmed cases and no deaths.
The positive situation of the epidemic situation in Hainan has been further consolidated, and 175,000 passengers have returned smoothly in the province
On the 22nd, 1,748 new local infections (confirmed + asymptomatic) were added in mainland China, which was lower than 2,000 for two consecutive days, and continued to decline from the previous day (1,824 cases), and the number of affected provinces was still 25.
Among them, 308 cases were confirmed locally, from 18 provinces: 205 cases in Hainan, 27 cases in Tibet, 23 cases in Chongqing, 13 cases in Shaanxi, and the other 14 provinces added single digits each.
There were 1,440 new cases of local asymptomatic infections that day, distributed in 22 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Among them, there were 520 cases in Hainan, 518 cases in Tibet, 173 cases in Xinjiang, 77 cases in Shaanxi, 54 cases in Qinghai, 23 cases in Gansu, 11 cases in Henan, and the other 15 provinces and the Corps each increased by single digits.
Hainan Province reported 676 new cases of local infections on the 22nd (49 cases of asymptomatic patients have been deducted from confirmed cases), a slight decrease from the previous day (685 cases), including 502 cases in Sanya City.
From August 1st to 22nd, Hainan Province has reported a total of 18,523 local infections, including 13,940 in Sanya.
Hainan Province reported on the 23rd that the number of newly infected people in the province has dropped for 5 consecutive days, and the Sanya epidemic has gradually been brought under control. Many epidemic-related cities (counties) have achieved social clearance, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control has been further consolidated. .
On August 22, 1,167 cases in the province were cured and discharged, far exceeding the number of new cases that day.
As of the 22nd, a total of 3,491 cases in Hainan Province have been cured and discharged from the current round of the epidemic.
According to reports, Hainan is promoting Haikou Meilan Airport to take the lead in opening commercial flights to ensure the rapid return of passengers stranded in Haikou and surrounding areas, and to resume commercial flight operations at Sanya Phoenix Airport.
Orderly opening of outlying islands via ports and wharfs will ensure the safe return of self-driving passengers, individual passengers and other stranded passengers.
As of 20:00 on the 22nd, Hainan has organized 175,000 passengers from across the province to return smoothly.
More than 6,000 cases were infected in this round of epidemic in Tibet, Urumqi returned to normal production and life orderly
On the 22nd, Tibet added 27 new local confirmed cases and 518 asymptomatic infections. A total of more than 6,000 local infections have been reported in this round of epidemic.
From 0:00 to 14:00 on the 23rd, Tibet reported 5 new local confirmed cases and 206 asymptomatic infections, more than half of which were from Lhasa (4+124).
It is reported that the current epidemic situation in Tibet is still in the developing stage, the virus spreads rapidly and the risk is high.
On the 22nd, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region added 4 new local confirmed cases and 173 asymptomatic infections, and the daily increase in local infections continued to decline.
According to reports, the current epidemic situation in Xinjiang is generally stable and improving. There is no epidemic in 61 counties and cities in the region. Among the affected areas, 6 prefectures and 20 counties and cities have no new positive infections for 7 consecutive days. , the epidemic prevention and control achieved phased results.
Urumqi said on the evening of the 22nd that the number of new cases in the city has dropped significantly for 9 consecutive days, and the phased results of epidemic prevention and control have gradually been consolidated.
The city of Urumqi has decided that from 8:00 on the 23rd, social prevention and control measures will be implemented dynamically and gradually, and the normal production and living order will be gradually and orderly restored.
Officials from Urumqi City stated that the city’s current round of epidemic virus Omicron BA.5.2 variant strains spread quickly, with complicated routes and multiple chains and obvious aggregation characteristics. In addition, the city’s population density is high and there are many gathering places. Recently, there are still sporadic reports of infected people in the centralized control area and static management area, and the risk of epidemic prevention and control has not been completely ruled out.
The two epidemics in Chongqing have the risk of social transmission, and the whole city of Zhuozhou in Hebei implements closure and control management
Chongqing reported on the 23rd that on the 22nd, the city added 23 local confirmed cases and 8 asymptomatic infections.
Since the "8.03" epidemic, 15 local epidemics have occurred in Chongqing in a row, linking 5 sources and 8 chains.
Among them, the "8.16" Shapingba epidemic and the "8.22" Jiulongpo epidemic still have risks of social transmission.
Overall, the current development of the epidemic in Chongqing has not yet bottomed out, facing greater uncertainty, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control is severe and complicated.
According to reports, on the 24th, Chongqing will carry out nucleic acid screening in the central urban area.
From 0:00 on the 24th, all citizens' health codes in the central urban area will be converted to "orange codes", and the window will be automatically eliminated after a nucleic acid sampling is completed.
Those who have not undergone nucleic acid testing are not allowed to have meals together from the next day, not to participate in conferences and business activities, and not to go to crowded and confined public places.
Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province announced on the 23rd that when the city conducted nucleic acid screening on key groups that day, it found 8 cases of people who were initially screened positive, and all of them have been transferred to the Fangcang shelter hospital for centralized isolation.
Zhuozhou immediately launched an emergency response mechanism for epidemic prevention and control.
In order to stop the spread of the epidemic, Zhuozhou implemented a lockdown and control management of the whole city, and the whole area remained silent.
All personnel carry out nucleic acid sampling in an orderly manner to ensure that no one household or one person is missed.
8 new high-risk areas in Shangluo, Shaanxi, 85 people infected with imported epidemics from other provinces in Gansu
On the 22nd, Shaanxi Province added 13 local confirmed cases and 77 asymptomatic infections.
As of 24:00 on the 22nd, Shaanxi Province currently has 179 local confirmed cases in hospital and 276 local asymptomatic infections under isolation medical observation.
According to a recent report, there are two transmission chains in this round of epidemic in Shaanxi Province. One is the imported epidemic from other provinces since August 10, which has been basically controlled.
One is the "8.15" epidemic that started in Xi'an, and has now spread to many places in the province. The detected virus of the infected person is highly homologous to the virus strain found in a domestic province, but the source of the infection is not yet clear, and the epidemic situation is still not clear. in development.
As the key area of this round of epidemic in Shaanxi Province, Shangluo City added 4 local confirmed cases and 58 asymptomatic infections on the 22nd.
Shangluo City issued a notice saying that since 0:00 on the 23rd, the city has added 7 high-risk areas and 1 medium-risk area to high-risk areas.
Gansu Province notified on the 23rd that 23 new cases of asymptomatic infections were added on the 22nd, involving Lanzhou, Linxia, Zhangye, Qingyang and other cities and prefectures. Detection and centralized isolation point discovery.
Gansu Province was the most severely affected province in mainland China in July, with nearly 4,500 local infections reported in this outbreak.
However, since the 6th of this month, a local epidemic has occurred again in Gansu Province, and the infected people are mainly returnees from the province and their associated infections.
As of 24:00 on the 22nd, Gansu's "08.06" imported epidemic from other provinces has reported 6 local confirmed cases and 79 asymptomatic infections.
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