China News Service, Urumqi, October 5 (La Xiaofei and Pan Qi) "The current round of the epidemic in Xinjiang has lasted for more than two months. According to the trend analysis of the source of infected people, the overall epidemic situation in the region was in a period of rapid increase before August 15. The main source is social discovery; with the strengthening of control measures, more infected people have gradually appeared in centralized isolation points, home isolation and high-risk areas, which is related to the strong infectivity of the virus, the rapid spread, and the short incubation period."

　　On the evening of the 5th, Xinjiang held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control.

At the meeting, Ni Mingjian, chief expert of the Xinjiang CDC, said when answering questions from reporters.

　　Ni Mingjian said that due to the large number of infected people in a short period of time, it has brought enormous pressure to local prevention and control resources, including nucleic acid testing resources, isolation resources, medical resources and community control resources.

After the hard work of the whole region, the epidemic was brought under control by the end of August, and the number of daily reported infections decreased.

At the beginning of September, the sources of newly infected people in key areas were mainly concentrated isolation points and high-risk areas, and the epidemic situation was in a stalemate.

Since mid-September, the epidemic has rebounded in some areas. Especially in the past two days, the epidemic has rebounded again in Urumqi City, Yining City in Ili Prefecture, Korla City in Ba Prefecture, and Gaochang District in Turpan City.

　　"The large rebound of the epidemic may be related to many factors."

Ni Mingjian said that first, the hidden source of infection in the community has not been completely eliminated, and a certain number of infected people still exist in an asymptomatic state, and they have begun to spread before detection.

There are also individual residents who evade nucleic acid testing or use other people's nucleic acid testing codes to take samples, accumulating certain risks.

Coupled with the increase in the flow of people, the risk of epidemic transmission has increased.

　　The second is that front-line workers in high-risk positions have been fighting for a long time and exposed to infections caused by increased opportunities.

There are also spreads caused by community residents chatting with each other and getting together during the nucleic acid sampling process, as well as the irregular operation of nucleic acid sampling and omissions in ensuring supply.

　　He said that the third is that some residents do not have adequate self-protection, wear masks irregularly or remove masks in public places and places where people gather, and fail to pay attention to the details of personal protection.

Fourth, after the resumption of production and work in various places, the gathering of people at work or in the workplace has also become a risk factor for the rebound of the epidemic.

　　"In general, there are many reasons for the rebound of the epidemic, and some factors may be superimposed on each other, making the prevention and control situation more complicated. This round of epidemic is the largest, longest, and most infected new crown virus epidemic in our region so far. It is extremely difficult to prevent and control, and the epidemic has not yet been fully controlled. Judging from the epidemic characteristics of the virus, the subsequent development of the epidemic is still uncertain, and more infected people may still be detected." Ni Mingjian said.

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