China News Service, August 5th. Jiao Yahui, Inspector of the Medical Administration and Hospital Administration of the National Health Commission, introduced today that since mid-to-late July, cluster epidemics have occurred in Urumqi, Xinjiang and Dalian, Liaoning. The National Health Commission and the relevant departments of the joint prevention and control mechanism in Xinjiang and Liaoning moved quickly to take effective measures to quickly control the development of the epidemic. At present, the rapid development of the epidemic situation in the two places has been effectively controlled. Now prevention, control and treatment, including traceability, are in an orderly progress.
The State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the State Council’s policies on August 5 to introduce the improvement of new coronavirus detection capabilities. A reporter asked at the meeting: Recently, Xinjiang and Dalian have experienced cluster epidemics. What is the current situation of the epidemic? What specific measures has the country taken in terms of epidemic control?
Jiao Yahui introduced that since mid-to-late July, cluster epidemics have occurred in Urumqi, Xinjiang and Dalian, Liaoning. From 0:00 on July 16 to 24:00 on August 4, Xinjiang has reported a total of 670 confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia, 164 asymptomatic infections, 52 cured and discharged confirmed cases, and 42 asymptomatic infections released from medical observation. There are 618 confirmed cases and 122 asymptomatic infections. Liaoning has reported a total of 90 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, 28 asymptomatic infections, 3 asymptomatic infections removed from medical observation, 90 confirmed cases and 25 asymptomatic infections.
Jiao Yahui said that the two epidemics have the following characteristics in common:
First, the development progress was relatively rapid in the early stage of the epidemic. Since the first case was reported in Urumqi, Xinjiang on July 16, the first incubation period was within the first 14 days, and the number of infected people quickly increased to more than 550. Since the first case was reported in Dalian, Liaoning, the number of infections quickly exceeded 100 in less than 10 days.
Second, mainly young and middle-aged infected persons. The average age of the cases in Xinjiang is 35 years, and the average age of cases in Dalian is 41 years. They are mainly young and middle-aged, which determines that they have a third characteristic, which is that these cases are mainly mild and common. Therefore, the overall condition is not very serious, and some cases have been discharged from the hospital within two weeks.
Jiao Yahui pointed out that the National Health Commission, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, worked quickly with relevant departments of the joint prevention and control mechanism in Xinjiang and Liaoning to take effective measures to quickly control the development of the epidemic. The main tasks are as follows:
First, dispatch the epidemic prevention and control working group led by ministerial comrades to the two places as soon as possible, and at the same time draw strong professional technical forces from relevant provinces across the country to support the two places in carrying out epidemic prevention and control work. The National Health Commission has dispatched working groups, expert groups, prevention and control groups, and treatment groups. These groups include clinical, on-site flow control, laboratory testing, food safety risk assessment, and organization and management of large-scale nucleic acid testing. A total of 119 comrades with rich experience helped carry out related work in the two places. In addition, 21 nucleic acid testing teams were set up from 12 provinces across the country, with a total of more than 400 people, carrying equipment, reagents, and consumables to Xinjiang to support their nucleic acid testing work.
Second, quickly carry out epidemiological investigations and quickly discover potential sources of infection. These intermediary personnel, together with relevant professional and technical personnel, use big data and other technical means to conduct in-depth and detailed epidemiological investigations, quickly discover possible key populations, and take effective isolation and observation measures for these people. In both places, the National Health Commission has conducted centralized medical observations on the direct and indirect close contacts who tested positive for nucleic acid. This is conducive to controlling the source of infection in the first time, cutting off the route of transmission, and restraining the spread of the epidemic.
Third, organize two places to quickly improve nucleic acid detection capabilities, and try to find these infected people and cases. After the outbreak, the National Health Commission guided the two places to first strengthen the organization and mobilization of local testing forces, and try their best to improve the local nucleic acid testing capabilities. In addition, mobile testing forces were dispatched from national organizations to support nucleic acid testing in the two places. After the outbreak of the epidemic in Urumqi, the nucleic acid testing capacity in a short period of time has increased from less than 20,000 copies per day to more than 700,000 copies per day. Now, nucleic acid tests for more than 6 million people have been completed, which has been achieved for key populations. Full coverage. The nucleic acid detection capacity in Dalian has also increased from less than 10,000 tests per day to more than 1 million nucleic acid tests per day in a short period of time. Now, nucleic acid testing has been completed for more than 6.9 million people. It should be said that the urban permanent population has basically been covered.
Fourth, strictly implement the "four mornings" and "four concentrations" medical treatment principles, and do everything possible to improve the effectiveness of medical treatment. On the one hand, guide the two places to do a good job in the deployment of designated hospitals and medical forces. Both places vacated a designated hospital in the first time, and carried out reforms in accordance with the requirements of respiratory infectious diseases, and transformed common diseases. Area and critically ill area. In these wards, all relevant infection cases are admitted to designated hospitals to ensure that all cases should be collected and treated. In addition, the restructuring system of medical and nursing forces is transferred from the hospital with strong comprehensive strength to the ward to take over these patients, so as to maximize the effect of medical treatment. At the same time, the strongest intensive care experts were dispatched from across the country to guide critical care in Urumqi and Dalian respectively, and implemented "one case, one policy" for these hospitalized cases. According to the principle of moving forward, traditional Chinese medicine Intervention and full participation to prevent mild cases from becoming severe, while adopting multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of severe cases, strengthening clinical care, and early adopting respiratory support treatment and other effective comprehensive treatment measures. From Hubei, Beijing, Heilongjiang, Jilin and other related provinces, 116,000 milliliters of convalescent patient plasma was allocated to the two places to strengthen the treatment of patients, especially critically ill patients, and 250 immunoglobulins. It should be said that in these treatments, the application of these comprehensive methods has achieved very good results. According to our statistics, as of August 4, among the 55 critically ill patients in the two hospitals, 24 severely ill patients have been converted to mild and normal types, and 2 cases have been discharged. Therefore, the treatment effect is very good.
Jiao Yahui said that through these comprehensive measures, the rapid development of the epidemic situation in the two places has been effectively controlled. Now prevention, control and treatment, including traceability, are progressing in an orderly process.