(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Comprehensive news: 17 out-of-provincial related cases in Beijing epidemic occurred
China News Agency, Beijing, June 20: With the recent increase in newly confirmed cases, the number of confirmed cases in mainland China has exceeded 300 on the 19th. Beijing has added 22 more confirmed cases, and a total of 205 cases have been diagnosed over the past 9 days, and 17 cases have been affected in 5 provinces.
There are currently over 300 confirmed cases in the Mainland of China, and there are 17 cross-provincial related cases in Beijing epidemic
The National Health and Health Commission of China announced on the 20th that on the 19th, provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 27 newly confirmed cases, including 4 imported cases, 23 local cases, and a total of 1868 confirmed cases imported overseas. On the same day, 7 new cases of asymptomatic infections were added, no cases were converted to confirmed cases, and 108 cases of asymptomatic infections still under medical observation.
As of 24:00 on the 19th, there were 308 confirmed cases in mainland China, with a total of 78,410 cases of discharge and 4,634 deaths, and a total of 83,352 confirmed cases reported. A total of 1618 confirmed cases (1127 cases in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 45 cases in the Macao Special Administrative Region and 446 cases in Taiwan) were received.
Among the 4 newly confirmed imported cases on the 19th, Guangdong Province reported 3 cases, of which 2 cases were from Bangladesh and 1 case was from Indonesia; 1 case from Shanghai was imported from Canada.
Among the 23 newly added local cases, with the exception of 22 in Beijing, one case in Hebei was a close contact with a Beijing case. So far, there have been 17 cross-provincial infections in Beijing, including 11 in Hebei, 3 in Liaoning, 1 in Sichuan, 1 in Zhejiang, and 1 in Henan. Except for 1 in Henan who was asymptomatic, the remaining 16 were all Confirmed cases.
205 newly diagnosed cases in Beijing in 9 days are still at a critical juncture
Beijing announced on the 20th that on the 19th, 22 new cases were confirmed in Beijing, all of which are related to the market of the new place. The youngest patient is only 1 year old. As of 24:00 on the 19th, Beijing has added 205 newly confirmed cases since June 11, and 17 cases of asymptomatic infections are still being observed.
Xu Hejian, deputy minister of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, said on the 20th that the current epidemic situation in the capital is still grim and complex, and prevention and control are still at a critical juncture. The entire city also needs to mobilize urgently to win the tough battle of epidemic prevention and control in the new market.
According to Beijing, since the outbreak associated with the new market, Beijing has launched a comprehensive nucleic acid test. As of 6:00 on the 20th, the city has collected a total of 2.297 million samples. In addition, Beijing also dispatched 11 supervision groups to conduct on-site supervision of 20 medical institutions that screened out more cases, and interviewed 8 medical institutions and 5 district leaders in question.
The source of infection in "special" local cases in Tianjin remains a mystery
Tianjin City has recently notified of a "special" local confirmed case. The 22-year-old patient was a kitchen assistant in a hotel western restaurant. He reported that he had no history of going out 14 days before the onset of illness. It is undoubtedly similar to the case and the contact history of the confirmed case. Before this case appeared, Tianjin had no new local confirmed cases for 110 consecutive days.
According to news from Tianjin, as of 15:00 on June 19, Tianjin has searched for 1,137 suspected exposed people who covered the trajectory of the case. The completed nucleic acid test results were negative; the collected aquatic products such as salmon and cattle and sheep The test results of 49 meat samples were all negative; a total of 144 samples of 18 environmental samples from hotels and patient residences were collected, and the test results were also negative.
The relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Center for Disease Control stated that from the current situation of tracing the case, no source of infection has been found. However, Tianjin CDC has sent the virus to the Central Disease Control Virus Clinic and hopes that through the results of gene sequencing, it will be found that the virus infected in this case in Tianjin has a certain relationship with the virus genes of the existing cases in which area to find the case. The real source of infection.
Expert: 10 days later, the number of confirmed cases in the world may be over ten million
Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infection, Shanghai Huashan Hospital, posted on his personal Weibo on the 20th that according to the current prevention and control efforts in Beijing, the cluster epidemic associated with the new development market will be 2 weeks after the peak. Can be completely controlled. However, while Beijing's epidemic situation is accelerating, some high-epidemic countries are under pressure from the economy and gradually adopting a policy of comprehensive opening up, which will bring great uncertainty to the global epidemic situation. "The global epidemic situation is still rising, after 10 days (confirmed cases) will break 10 million."
Zhang Wenhong believes that the spread of the global epidemic will be at least until the end of this year or the first half of next year. Before that, China needs to maintain a cautious attitude and maintain the hard-won stability. On the basis of consolidating epidemic prevention work and strengthening the construction of the public health system, resolutely advancing economic recovery will be the "new normal" for a long period of time in the future. (Finish)