(Combating New Coronary Pneumonia) Comprehensive News: Virus Isolated from Urine

China News Service, Beijing, February 22th. China National Health Commission notified on the 22nd that on the 21st, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps added 397 confirmed cases (366 cases in Hubei) and new deaths. 109 cases, 2393 new cases were cured and discharged.

Hubei Province added back the number of cases reduced on February 19 to confirmed cases. According to the corrected data, as of 24:00 on the 21st, there were 53,284 confirmed cases across the country, a total of 20,659 cured and discharged cases, a total of 2,345 deaths, and a total of 76,288 confirmed cases reported. A total of 104 confirmed cases were reported in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: 68 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 10 in the Macao Special Administrative Region, and 26 in Taiwan.

Accelerated digestion of no newly confirmed cases in 18 provinces

Except Hubei, there were 31 newly confirmed cases nationwide on the 21st, a significant decrease from the 20th (258 cases). There were no new confirmed cases in 18 provinces including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, and the three northeast provinces, of which Tibet and Qinghai had no new confirmed cases for 23 consecutive days and 16 consecutive days, respectively.

National Health and Medical Commission spokesman Mi Feng said on the 22nd that from the data, we can see that the number of confirmed cases across the country has shown a downward trend, indicating that medical treatment work has made positive progress across the country, and the confirmed cases are accelerating digestion.

Zhong Nanshan's team isolates virus from patients' urine

A press conference in Guangzhou on the 22nd revealed that following the isolation of the virus from fecal specimens of patients with New Coronary Pneumonia, on February 19, under the guidance of Zhong Nanshan, the expert of the academician team of Zhong Nanshan and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases Professor Zhao Jincun's team also isolated the new crown virus from a urine sample of a patient with new crown pneumonia. The sample was a urine specimen provided by the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University.

According to the official website of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the park, in conjunction with South China Agricultural University and Beijing Brain Center, found through analysis of whole genome data that a new coronavirus from the South China seafood market in Wuhan was introduced from other places.

"Coronary pneumonia" English name revised to "COVID-19" Patients were infectious two days before onset

The National Health Commission decided to revise the English name of "new coronavirus pneumonia" to "COVID-19", which is consistent with the name of the World Health Organization, and the Chinese name remains unchanged.

Previously, the National Health Commission had temporarily named "new coronavirus pneumonia" as "new coronavirus pneumonia", referred to as "new coronary pneumonia" and "NCP" ("Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia").

Xiang Nijuan, a researcher at the Emergency Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview on the evening of the 21st that the observed changes in the epidemic are that patients with new coronary pneumonia have been contagious two days before the onset of illness.

China's overall supply of daily necessities is abundant, China's position and role in the global industry chain will not change

At the press conference on the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council on the 22nd, Wu Chungeng, director of the Policy Research Office of the Ministry of Transport, said that the resumption of production and resumption of transportation in related industries is progressing in an orderly manner, and the country's passenger, logistics, and express delivery industries have continued to grow .

Wang Bin, deputy director of the Department of Market Operations of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the overall supply of the daily necessities market in the country has been abundant recently. Except for pork and beef prices, the prices of other categories have dropped significantly.

According to Wu Guoyi, director of the Department of Service and Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, as of February 21, 68 overseas Chinese-funded enterprises (associations) have donated medical supplies in shortage for China's anti-epidemic diseases and donations of more than 10 million yuan. As of February 20, China has imported more than 5 billion yuan of medical supplies through various trade methods.

Wu Guoyi said that the epidemic of the new crown pneumonia caused a short-term impact on China ’s foreign trade consumption, but in the long run, China ’s position and role in the global industrial chain will not change.

Wuhan requires cures still need to be quarantined for 14 days. Liaoning and other provinces downgraded emergency response to provincial level 3.

Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters issued a notice on the 22nd, requiring patients with New Crown pneumonia to be cured and discharged from hospitals, and they should go to designated places for unified rehabilitation and medical observation for 14 days. At the expiration of the observation period, the physical condition meets the conditions to release the quarantine.

From 9 o'clock on the 22nd, the emergency response level for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Liaoning Province was adjusted from a first-level emergency response to a provincial-level third-level emergency response. From 14:00 on the 21st, Gansu Province has also adjusted from a first-level emergency response to a provincial-level third-level emergency response.

After the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China have initiated first-level responses to major public health emergencies and implemented the most stringent prevention and control measures. (Finish)