(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hebei disease control experts talk about the source of the epidemic: the most difficult time in recent years

  China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 19 (Chen Lin and Li Xiaowei) Shi Jian, director of the Emergency Office of the Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention and an epidemiologist, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com on the evening of the 18th that according to the current traceability results, the state The experts took the lead to do a related traceability investigation, "this epidemic can be said to be the most difficult traceability in recent years."

Data map: On January 13, busy nucleic acid testing staff in the shelter of Jinyu Medical Laboratory Park, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia

  Shi Jian said that after the National and Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted genetic sequencing and comparison of multiple samples from this round of epidemics, the strains were different from those found in other domestic epidemics, and the correlation with previous local epidemics in my country was ruled out, or imported from abroad. .

It is inferred that the virus was introduced earlier than December 15, 2020. This work is currently under intense investigation and there is no final conclusion.

  Shi Jian said that by conducting an epidemiological analysis of the current cases in Hebei, the number of cases showed a rapid increase in the early stage of case discovery. On the one hand, it shows that other people had been infected when the first case was discovered. Living habits are related to the approaching new year.

  The latest data shows that from January 2 to 10:00 on the 19th, a total of 822 local confirmed cases and 371 asymptomatic infections were reported in Hebei province.

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