(Fighting against New Crown Pneumonia) Urumqi: The outbreak was caused by Kazakh immigration personnel
China News Agency, Urumqi, July 20. Urumqi official media released rumors on the 20th: Recently, the Urumqi new crown epidemic was circulated online because a woman entered Kazakhstan without nucleic acid detection and isolation measures. According to investigations by public security organs, the above information is rumors and has no basis. The public security organ has dealt with the lawful person Jin Moumou (female) who issued the rumor.
According to the rumor information, after verification by the relevant departments and epidemiological investigation and analysis by the disease control department, it was not found that the first evidence case of the new outbreak in Urumqi had a history of traveling abroad before the onset of the disease. According to epidemiological investigations, all confirmed cases and asymptomatic infected persons have no history of traveling abroad since this year. At present, the disease control department is performing gene sequencing on the newly-emerged virus, perfecting the trajectory of the relevant personnel, supplementing the information of the flow control database, and further searching for the source of infection.
According to the latest notification from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Health Commission, from 0:00 to 24:00 on July 19, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) reported 17 new cases of new coronary pneumonia, including 16 in Urumqi and 1 in Kashgar. Cases (the imported cases in Urumqi City); 9 new cases of asymptomatic infections, all in Urumqi City.
As of 24:00 on July 19, there are 47 confirmed cases (including 2 severe cases) in Xinjiang (including 2 severe cases), 46 cases in Urumqi and 1 case in Kashgar. There are 50 cases of asymptomatic infections in Urumqi. There are still 3016 people under medical observation. (Finish)