China News Service, Suihua, January 14 (Reporter Jiang Hui Xie Peihua) At a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic held in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province on the evening of the 14th, Guo Yanru, deputy director of the Suihua Center for Disease Control, said that there is no proof at present The virus was introduced from Dalian.
Guo Yanru said that after sequencing the virus's genes, 12 cases in Wangkui County, Suihua have genomic mutations, which are highly homologous to the Dalian epidemic in December. At present, it cannot be proved that the virus was introduced from Dalian. The source of the virus is being traced.
Guo Yanru believes that the December 2020 epidemic in Dalian was also caused by bulk goods that were positive for new crown pneumonia on foreign freighters. The traceability of the virus is a long-term and complicated process that requires comprehensive research and judgment combined with epidemiology.
At present, Heilongjiang Province is organizing experts to continue to trace the source of this new crown pneumonia epidemic in conjunction with epidemiological investigations and laboratory testing.
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