(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The epidemic in Beijing has a social aspect to hide the risk of transmission and strictly prevent imports from outside Beijing to trigger new transmission chains
China News Agency, Beijing, November 17 (Reporter Chen Hang) The current epidemic situation in Beijing is showing a development trend, and the risk of hidden transmission from the social side still exists.
From 0:00 to 15:00 on the 17th, there were 218 new local cases of new coronary pneumonia virus infection in Beijing, including 195 cases of isolation observers and 23 cases of social screening personnel.
Beijing requires further optimization of remote control measures to strictly prevent new transmission chains caused by imports from outside Beijing.
This is what the reporter learned from the press conference on Beijing's epidemic prevention and control work held on the 17th.
Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that recently, multiple clusters of epidemics in Beijing have involved crowded places such as catering establishments, schools, urban villages, and construction sites. It is necessary to adhere to scientific and precise, fast and efficient handling of clusters of epidemics.
It is necessary to strengthen the risk investigation of crowded places and do a good job in the management of epidemic prevention in the region.
Xu Hejian, spokesperson of the Beijing Municipal Government, said that at present, there are intertwined clusters of epidemics and sporadic cases in Beijing. The social cases involve many districts. The number of imported cases outside Beijing and abroad continues to increase. The epidemic situation is still on the rise, and the prevention and control situation is severe and complicated.
From 0:00 to 24:00 on the 16th, there were 172 new local confirmed cases and 262 asymptomatic infections in Beijing (including 11 asymptomatic infections transferred to confirmed cases).
Among them, 347 cases were isolation observers and 76 cases were social screening personnel.
Xu Hejian pointed out that it is necessary to take decisive measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the society, comprehensively and quickly investigate risk points, target risk groups, pay special attention to schools, hospitals, nursing homes, urban villages, construction sites and other special amplifier points, and further optimize remote control measures. Strictly prevent new transmission chains caused by imports from outside Beijing.
According to Zhao Weidong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the market for daily necessities such as grain, oil, meat, eggs, and vegetables in Beijing has a balanced supply and demand, stable operation, and good order.
Winter vegetables, grain, oil, meat and eggs and other daily necessities have been fully stockpiled by the government. According to market supply and demand, they can be put on the market in time to increase the supply of goods.
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