(Combating New Coronary Pneumonia) Looking at the epidemic from changes in data: Hubei's number of hospitalized cases dropped to less than 2000
China News Service, Beijing, March 30 (Guo Chaokai) The latest official data shows that on March 29, Hubei's hospitalized cases fell to below 2000 for the first time. At present, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world has exceeded 720,000, and the number of deaths has exceeded 34,000. There are 11 countries with a total of 10,000 confirmed cases.
As of 24:00 on March 29, according to reports from 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 2,396 confirmed cases (including 633 severe cases) and 3,304 deaths; the total cured cases were discharged from the country. A total of 75,770 cases were reported, with a total of 81,470 confirmed cases. The proportion of cured patients who were discharged from hospital continued to rise, reaching 93%.
There were 31 newly confirmed cases nationwide on the 29th, of which 30 were imported cases and 1 was a local case (1 in Gansu). As of 24:00 on March 29, China had reported a total of 723 confirmed imported cases, 93 discharged cases cured, and 630 confirmed imported cases.
China National Health Committee spokesman and deputy director of the Department of Publicity Mi Feng said on the 30th that there have been sporadic reports of cases since March 18, when there were no new confirmed cases in mainland China, which suggests the need to implement and prevent them. Various measures to rebound the epidemic, do a good job of community prevention and control, and continue to consolidate the periodical results. According to the latest WHO report, more than 60,000 new cases were diagnosed worldwide on the same day on March 29, and the cumulative rate of confirmed cases has increased by more than 10% for 7 consecutive days. The pressure to prevent importation continues to increase. Full chain prevention and control from home to home.
Strict prevention of overseas imports has become the focus of epidemic prevention and control. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said on the 30th that the total number of international passenger flights to the three major aviation hubs in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou has been reduced from 554 in the previous week to the current 61; combined with the new notice of the Civil Aviation Administration, the flight load factor is required The requirement does not exceed 75%. According to this calculation, from March 29 to April 4, the number of passengers entering through air ports is expected to drop from 25,000 to about 4,000 daily.
From a local point of view, from 09:00 to 24:00 on March 29, Hubei Province, the most severe epidemic, had 0 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and no imported cases. The number of suspected cases in Hubei is 0, and 1733 cases are treated in hospital.
According to data reported in successive days, Hubei ’s newly confirmed cases were “returned to zero” for the first time on March 18, with one new case on the 23rd and “return to zero” on the 24th. On the 29th, Hubei ’s new confirmed cases were the sixth consecutive day. 0, which is the 13th consecutive day to keep the number of existing suspected cases to 0, and it is the first time that the number of cases treated in the hospital has dropped below 2000.
Looking overseas, the global epidemic is still not optimistic. According to the real-time data released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 16:30, March 30, Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of global new coronary pneumonia reached 72,401, breaking the 720,000 mark; the cumulative number of deaths worldwide reached 34,026. .
As of 16:30 on the 30th in Beijing, the total number of confirmed cases in the United States has exceeded 140,000, reaching 143,055. On the 29th local time, US President Trump announced at a White House Rose Garden press conference that the 15-day “social distance epidemic prevention recommendation” promulgated two weeks ago was extended to April 30. Trump said that the United States will usher in a new inflection point in the mortality rate of new coronary pneumonia in two weeks, and the overall situation is expected to improve in early June.
In addition to China, there have been as many as 10 countries diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia worldwide: the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Iran, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Europe has become the “severely affected area” of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, with 8 countries with a cumulative diagnosis of more than 10,000 cases. (Finish)