(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Beijing adds another confirmed case outside Beijing, the source of infection is still unclear
China News Service, Beijing, October 21 (Reporter Du Yan) From 0:00 to 14:00 on October 21, Beijing added a new confirmed case of local new coronary pneumonia related to outside Beijing, the wife of the confirmed case on October 19.
This is what the reporter learned from the press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia in Beijing on the 21st.
From 0:00 to 13:00 on October 19, Beijing added a new confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia imported from outside Beijing.
On the 15th, the case took a train to Beijing, and was adjacent to a sleeping berth in the same carriage as the confirmed case Ai Moumou in Yinchuan, Ningxia.
Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced at the press conference that one new confirmed case from 0:00 to 14:00 on the 21st was the wife of the confirmed case on October 19, who lived in Fengtai District, Beijing.
As a close contact, she underwent intensive medical observation in isolation on October 19. On October 20, she felt throat discomfort and had no obvious symptoms such as cough or fever. The nucleic acid test result was positive.
On October 21, he was transferred to a designated hospital for isolation and treatment. A confirmed case was diagnosed that day, and the clinical classification was mild.
She pointed out that the whole genome sequencing results of the laboratory of Beijing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the strain was a delta mutant strain, which had low homology with the virus genomes of previous local and imported cases in Beijing, and was initially compared by experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis results show that the virus has high homology with the cases reported in Gansu, Shaanxi and other places recently, and belongs to the same transmission chain.
She said that since two tourists were found to have tested positive for nucleic acid in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province recently, many provinces such as Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Guizhou, Ningxia, Hebei and Beijing have reported multiple related cases. The source of the infection is still unclear and the spread is fast. , The situation is grim.
She reminded that those who came to (returned) to Beijing with the same itinerary as the announced confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia or with an abnormal health code (yellow code or red code) should actively report their itinerary to the community (village), unit, and hotel, and cooperate with various control measures. .
At the same time, citizens should increase their awareness of protection, do a good job of personal protection, and insist that they must not leave the country or go out of Beijing if they are not necessary.
Up to now, Beijing has identified 128 people in close contact with the epidemic, and relevant control measures have been taken.
Zhang Jie, deputy head of the People’s Government of Fengtai District, Beijing, stated that the district will continue to clean up key areas, pay attention to the demands of the people in the closed and controlled areas, and pay particular attention to dialysis patients, pregnant women, children, and the elderly. People and other special groups have medical needs, provide precise services, and provide various living guarantees for people in relevant areas.
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