This epidemic in Hunan was imported by 3 tourists from other provinces who came to Zhangjiajie City

　　Today (4th) afternoon, Hunan Province held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control.

Chen Xiaochun, Party Secretary and Director of the Hunan Provincial Health Commission, Gao Lidong, Director and Deputy Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Hu Chengping, Head of the Hunan Senior Expert Team and Professor of the Department of Respiratory Critical Care, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, participated in the release of Hunan Epidemic Prevention and Control Related content.

　　The reporter learned from the press conference that after in-depth and meticulous case investigation, big data comparison, and virus gene sequencing in Hunan, most of the transmission chains of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections have been found in this round of the epidemic.

The current epidemic in Hunan was imported by three tourists from other provinces who came to Zhangjiajie City. These three tourists stopped at Nanjing Lukou Airport on July 17 and entered Zhangjiajie City that night. They traveled in Zhangjiajie City until July 23 and arrived in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. , And left Hunan Province on July 24.

These three tourists spread to local tour guides in Zhangjiajie City and tourists from Beijing, Chengdu and other places through shared breakfast in the hotel and gathering activities during the tour in Zhangjiajie City.

Tourists from Chengdu once again spread to many fellow passengers on a closed cruise ship in Changde City on July 24.

These tourists and tour guides, through close contact and gathering activities, triggered the spread in some provinces and cities in China and some cities and prefectures in Hunan Province.

The gene sequencing results showed that the new coronavirus infected by the local cases in Hunan Province belonged to the Delta variant strain, which has been confirmed by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to be highly homologous with the new coronavirus genome sequence of the local cases reported in Jiangsu Province recently.

(Main station reporter Zhang Wenlei, Li Yanjun and Lou Chao)