China News Service, May 16 (Xinhua) On the afternoon of the 16th, the State Council's joint defense and joint control mechanism held a press conference on medical assistance to Hubei and the restoration of normal medical treatment order. At the meeting, Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health and Health Commission and deputy director of the Propaganda Department, said that in the first half of May, a total of 39 newly confirmed local cases and 194 asymptomatic infections were reported nationwide, compared with the second half of April. Decreased by 46% and 62%. However, most of the newly confirmed local cases come from cluster epidemics, and asymptomatic infections are found in many places. It is necessary to strengthen patient treatment and epidemiological investigation, improve nucleic acid detection capabilities, and do screening, review, and isolation management of asymptomatic infections. To resolutely prevent the spread of the epidemic.