(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Chinese official: Heilongjiang's epidemic was caused by a new imported virus
China News Agency, Beijing, October 30 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) Wu Liang, deputy director of the CDC of the National Health Commission of China, said in Beijing on the 30th that the current round of new crown pneumonia has many spots and faces. Guangzhou, the line is long, Heihe, Heilongjiang, this round of epidemic situation has developed rapidly since the report on October 27, it is an epidemic caused by a new imported virus.
The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference on the same day to introduce the situation regarding further efforts in epidemic prevention and control and vaccination.
National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng said that as of 24:00 on October 29, 14 provinces across the country had reported new local confirmed cases or asymptomatic infections in the past 14 days. The current epidemic situation is still developing rapidly. Prevention and control The situation is severe and complex.
In response to the current development trend of the epidemic, Wu Liangyou said that since October 25, Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia, has not found any more cases of spillover from other places for 4 consecutive days, and the spread of the epidemic has been effectively controlled.
Recently, new cases in the local area were mainly found in centralized isolation points. The effectiveness of various prevention and control measures in the early stage has begun to show. The spread of the epidemic in the community has been basically contained. The next step will continue to strengthen risk area control and nucleic acid testing to thoroughly control the epidemic as soon as possible.
"There are no new cases in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and other provinces for more than 4 consecutive days. The epidemic situation in these areas is under effective control. The epidemic situation in Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Qinghai, Ningxia and other provinces is basically stable." Wu Liangyou said. The recent cases in Gansu Province were mainly found from centralized isolation points. In some areas, sporadic cases were found in community screening. The next step will be to speed up the investigation of the source of infection and the control of the source of infection, and cut off the chain of community transmission as soon as possible.
He also pointed out that the Heihe River epidemic in Heilongjiang has been developing rapidly since its report on October 27. According to the results of current circulating and virus sequencing, this epidemic is not related to the recent local epidemics in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and other provinces. It is a new imported virus abroad. Caused by the epidemic.
"Currently, new cases are mainly found through screening of all employees and active medical treatment, suggesting that community transmission has occurred in the local area, and there is a risk of spreading and spilling."
Wu Liangyou said that as the weather turns cold and the epidemic situation in neighboring countries intensifies, the country, especially in port areas, should further strictly implement normalized epidemic prevention and control measures, strengthen screening and closed-loop management of high-risk populations, strengthen epidemic monitoring, and take timely and decisive measures. Measures to prevent multiple outbreaks.
According to reports, the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism has sent a working group to Heihe, Heilongjiang to guide and support local emergency response work such as investigations of risk populations, nucleic acid testing, and flow control traceability.
As of October 29, a total of 226.2226 million doses of new crown virus vaccine have been reported across the country, and the number of people who have completed the entire vaccination is 1.07.0386 million.
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