A Chinese official has warned that the risk of another outbreak of the outbreak of the Corona virus (Covid-19) is still going strong, while the National Health Committee announced that the Chinese mainland has reported five new confirmed cases of the virus, including three in the Jilin region that the authorities have classified as High risk due to outbreak.
In detail, the Chinese government's medical advisor, Zhong Nanshan, warned that the risk of another wave of the Coruna epidemic is still very strong, and he told CNN news that "the majority of Chinese at the present time are still susceptible to infection because of a deficiency "We are facing a great challenge, and the situation is not better than other countries today, I think."
Zhong said that the authorities in Wuhan did not report the infections in a transparent manner at the beginning of the outbreak, and Zhong, who was part of a team of experts sent to Wuhan to investigate the spread of the virus, said that "the local authorities did not want to disclose the truth at the time."
He added: "I did not believe this result (the number of injuries announced), so I kept asking and then they had to give me the actual number." He expressed his belief that all data since January 23 are correct, and he warned that the "ideal" vaccine for the epidemic that the WHO refers The fact that it may not disappear at all will take "years".
Chung acknowledged that the number of cases was not fully announced at first in Wuhan, but said the government had learned lessons from the SARS epidemic 17 years ago.
Health authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the Coruna virus originated, said that the city had conducted 223,675 DNA tests on Monday, which is nearly twice the number of tests the previous day.
On May 14, Wuhan began a campaign of tests to track people who carry the virus without showing symptoms, after confirming at the beginning of last week about the first group of cases of "Covid-19" since the lifting of restrictions on general isolation on the eighth of last April.
The number of tests carried out on May 16 in the city with a population of 11 million is more than 186400 tests taken on May 14 and 15, and it was also the highest since the Wuhan Health Commission began publishing data on February 21, and Wuhan tests are conducted on the basis of voluntary.
For its part, the National Health Committee of China announced yesterday that the Chinese mainland recorded five confirmed new cases of "Covid-19" disease caused by the Corona virus, yesterday, down from eight cases the day before.
Two of the five cases were for two people from abroad, while three cases were recorded in the northeastern Jilin Province.
The total number of mainland cases was 82,947, while the number of deaths reached 4,634.
The three cases of local transmission of the disease are linked to an area in Jilin city that Chinese officials have classified as highly risky due to the outbreak.
According to the official website of that region on the application of "Weechat", the authorities imposed strict measures to contain the disease, including allowing only one person from each family to go out to buy daily necessities.
People have been instructed not to leave the city, and anyone who wishes to leave will be required to submit a test result proving that he did not have the disease no later than 48 hours ago. Jilin is the second largest city in the region of the same name, and is located on the border with North Korea and Russia. The province has suspended passenger train services since last Wednesday.
The health committee said the number of recorded cases without symptoms in China had fallen to 12 from 13 the previous day.
Chinese government's medical advisor:
"The epidemic may not go away at all, and the ideal vaccine will take years."
"Most citizens still have susceptibility to infection because of HIV."
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A test conducted by Wuhan city within one day, to track down the virus carriers.