Dalian, Liaoning, reported 100 cases of infection in 10 days, 85 cases were associated with seafood companies

(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Dalian, Liaoning, reported 100 cases of infection in 10 days, 85 cases of cases related to seafood companies

　　China News Service, Dalian, July 31 (Reporter Yang Yi) Zhao Lian, deputy director of the Dalian Municipal Health Commission, Liaoning Province, reported at the Dalian epidemic prevention and control press conference on July 31 that since July 21, Dalian has accumulated 100 cases of new coronary pneumonia infections were reported, including 68 confirmed cases and 32 asymptomatic infections.

　　After a lapse of 111 days, Dalian reported a new local confirmed case on July 21. The patient was an employee of Dalian Kaiyang Seafood Company. In 10 days, in addition to further spreading in the local area, the epidemic has now spread to 5 provinces (cities) in China. A total of 15 cases were imported into Anshan City and Tieling City in Liaoning Province, Siping City, Changchun City and Baicheng City in Jilin Province. Hegang City and Suihua City in Heilongjiang Province, Fuzhou City in Fujian Province and Changping District in Beijing.

　　According to the analysis of the source of cases, a total of 85 infected cases are directly or indirectly related to Dalian Kaiyang Seafood Company; and among the 15 imported cases mentioned above, they are all employees of Kaiyang Company or related cases.

　　Meng Jun, deputy director of the Dalian Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the epidemic has constituted an outbreak in Kaiyang, and has constituted a cluster of epidemics in families, places of residence, co-diners, and co-riders. In view of the severe local epidemic prevention and control situation, Dalian officials announced the implementation of free nucleic acid testing for all citizens on July 26. Up to now, the nucleic acid sampling in the main urban area of ​​Dalian has been completed, and a total of 3.892 million nucleic acid tests have been completed.

　　Meng Jun said that after close contacts were checked, more asymptomatic infections were found after the national nucleic acid test, and subsequent newly confirmed cases were transformed from asymptomatic infections. Due to the progress of screening work, unrelated cases began to increase, but the overall situation stabilized. (Finish)