(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Disease Control Expert: The epidemic situation in certain areas of Jilin Province is still spreading, and strict prevention and control are strictly enforced

  China News Service, Changchun, March 13th (Sun Boyan, Tan Weiqi) Zhao Qinglong, director of the Emergency Office of the Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced in Changchun on the 13th that the epidemic situation is still spreading in some areas, and the transmission of the Omicron variant is highly secretive, and more development is needed. Only through rounds of nucleic acid testing can we find out the background of the epidemic as soon as possible and quickly cut off the chain of transmission.

  On the same day, the Jilin Provincial Government Information Office held the 34th press conference on Jilin Province's epidemic prevention and control work to introduce the latest situation of the province's epidemic prevention and control work.

  As of 24:00 on March 12, Jilin Province has reported a total of 2,052 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia.

According to clinical classification: 2025 cases of light type and 27 cases of common type; according to the regional distribution: 1024 cases in Jilin City, 961 cases in Changchun City (654 cases are in Jiutai District), 65 cases in Yanbian Prefecture, Songyuan City, Siping City each 1 case.

Jilin Province has reported a total of 1,527 asymptomatic infections of the new coronavirus, including 1,275 in Jilin, 205 in Changchun (131 in Jiutai District), 36 in Yanbian, 6 in Meihekou, 3 in Siping, and 3 in Liaoyuan. City and Songyuan City each have 1 case.

  Zhao Qinglong believes that Jilin Province should strictly carry out prevention and control work.

After the infected person is found, the three public (workers) cooperate to quickly determine the risk area and personnel, accurately and scientifically delineate the medium and high risk areas, and seal the control area. The implementation of "people do not stay out of the area, gathering is strictly prohibited".

The close contacts and the close contacts should be turned as far as possible, and they should be separated as far as possible to completely block the community transmission, and to achieve social zero in the shortest time.

  Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Health Commission and head of the epidemic prevention and control team of the Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group Office, introduced that Jilin City has completed 6 rounds of nucleic acid testing for all employees, and Jiutai District of Changchun City has completed 3 rounds of nucleic acid testing. Other urban areas in the city have also completed 2 rounds of nucleic acid testing. Through the early large-scale nucleic acid testing, hidden potential infections in the community were discovered.

  Zhang Yan introduced that at present, Jilin City and Changchun City are successively carrying out a new round of nucleic acid testing for all employees, to further find out the bottom line of the epidemic, and race against time to push the social surface to zero.

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