(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Chinese Officials: Continue to strengthen the handling of local clusters

  China News Service, Beijing, November 5th (Reporter Li Chun) Hu Xiang, the second-level inspector of the Department of Communication and Prevention of China's National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in Beijing on November 5th that the National Health Commission and the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention will continue to guide local Faster production and faster handling, and continued to strengthen the handling of local clustered epidemics.

  The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the same day on the scientific and accurate prevention and control of the epidemic.

Hu Xiang introduced the recent development of the epidemic nationwide at the meeting.

  Hu Xiang said that in recent days, the number of new positive infections reported daily across the country has fluctuated. Affected by the increase in cross-provincial and cross-regional epidemics, new and old epidemics in many places are superimposed and intertwined. Clustered epidemics have occurred in Urumqi, Hohhot, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Fuzhou, Lanzhou and other provincial capitals, and the epidemic has rebounded in some areas.

  Hu Xiang pointed out that at present, the epidemic prevention and control actions in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia have achieved initial results. The local outbreaks in Guangdong, Fujian, Heilongjiang, Hebei, and Henan are gradually stabilizing, and the epidemics in other provinces are scattered in many places, and the national epidemic situation is generally under control.

However, it should be pointed out that as China continues to face multiple pressures from the import of overseas new coronary pneumonia epidemics, the spread of local epidemics, and the high incidence of seasonal diseases such as influenza in autumn and winter, the risk of new coronary pneumonia cluster epidemics still exists, and there are new coronary pneumonia epidemics and influenza epidemics. Possibility of superposition.

  Hu Xiang said that the National Health and Medical Commission and the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention will continue to guide all regions, adhere to the general strategy of "foreign import, internal defense rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic clearing", and scientifically, accurately and strictly implement various measures for epidemic prevention and control. We will continue to strengthen the handling of local clustered epidemics with fast control.

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