China News Service, Guangzhou, December 9th (Reporter Cai Minjie) Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said online on the 9th that the infection of the Omicron strain (BA.4/5, BF7) is not terrible, and 99% of infected people can be infected in Complete recovery within 7 to 10 days.
Prevention of infection still needs to be implemented, but excessive "prevention" will cause greater secondary harm to the economy or society, and the next focus of prevention and control should be on the prevention and control of severe diseases.
On the same day, Zhong Nanshan gave a speech on the theme of "New Crown (Omicron) Epidemic Trends and Response" at the Chinese Medical Association Respiratory Disease Annual Conference-2022 23rd National Respiratory Disease Academic Conference online.
Zhong Nanshan said that the second wave of the Omekeron virus outbreak across the country is characterized by strong transmissibility.
Compared with the Delta strain, the risk of COVID-19 sequelae caused by the Omecroron strain is significantly lower.
The focus of prevention and control policies should be shifted to the prevention and control of severe diseases, and further optimization and implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures ("New Ten Measures") should be implemented.
At the same time, he strongly called for accelerating the booster vaccination of vaccines, especially heterogeneous vaccines, and accelerating the development and approval of drugs, nasal spray (or aerosol) vaccines or antibodies.
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