China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 23 (Pei Guorong) At 15:00 on January 23, Hebei Province held the eighth news conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
The director of the Emergency Office of the Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention and an epidemiologist Jian Jian said that the recent decrease in the number of cases and the control of the scope indicate that the epidemic has been effectively contained and the overall situation of the epidemic is optimistic.
However, there are still people in close contact who are in the longest incubation period. Therefore, the current epidemic situation is still in a critical period of strict prevention and death. It is not ruled out that there will be continued cases in the coming days.
Shi Jian said that the results of this nucleic acid test showed three characteristics: First, it was still highly aggregated.
The majority of the positive infections detected in Shijiazhuang City are still in Gaocheng District, accounting for 72% of the total number of positive infections.
Second, the scope of infection has not been further expanded. The positive infections detected in this nucleic acid screening are mainly from centralized isolation medical observation sites.
Third, there are still positive detections in some medium-risk areas. The next step should be to further strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures to resolutely prevent the epidemic from rebounding.
Judging from the total case reports, the first case was reported on January 2. The number of reported cases continued to increase from the 3rd to the 5th, the number of reported cases reached a peak on the 6th, and the number of reported cases fell briefly from the 7th to the 15th and fluctuated at a high level. From the 16th to the 21st, the number of reported cases decreased for 7 consecutive days.
In terms of regional distribution, the first case was reported in Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang on January 2, the first case was reported in Nangong City, Xingtai on January 3, and the first case was reported in Gu'an, Langfang on January 11.
As of January 17, the Japanese epidemic had affected 14 counties in Shijiazhuang, 2 counties in Xingtai, 1 county in Langfang, and 8 counties in Shijiazhuang.
After January 18, the infection range of the cases gradually narrowed, and the spread of new cases every day in the past three days was lower than 6 counties.
As of January 22, Shijiazhuang had no new cases reported in counties for 7 consecutive days.
Among the 14 counties with reported cases, Xingtang County has no new cases for 16 consecutive days, Luquan District has no new cases for 14 consecutive days, and 10 townships in 8 counties including Zhengding County, Zhao County and Luancheng District There have been no new cases reported in Hejie Street for more than 14 consecutive days.
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