What is the overall situation of the current round of the epidemic in my country?

Why will it affect 27 provinces?

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  Since March, the number of newly confirmed local cases and asymptomatic infections in my country has continued to increase in a single day. According to data released by the National Health Commission, as of 24:00 on March 13, there were 8,531 local confirmed cases.

  What is the overall situation of the current round of the epidemic in my country?

  At present, what is the overall situation of the current round of the epidemic in my country?

What stage of development is it in?

Come and listen to the introduction of Lei Zhenglong, the first-level inspector of the deputy director of the National Health Commission's CDC.

  Lei Zhenglong, Deputy Director of the National Health and Medical Commission's Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention: Affected by the fourth wave of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the world, especially the high epidemic situation in my neighboring countries and regions, my country's overseas import pressure is increasing, and local aggregation The epidemic is characterized by many points, wide areas, and frequent occurrences.

From March 1 to 13, more than 10,000 infected people have been reported in the local epidemic, affecting 27 provinces across the country.

Recently, the epidemic situation in Jilin, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places is still developing, and the epidemic situation in some areas is rising rapidly, and the epidemic situation in Inner Mongolia is in the final stage.

Experts comprehensively judged that at present, my country's epidemic prevention and control as a whole, the general strategy of external defense against import, internal defense against rebound, and the general policy of "dynamic clearing" to deal with the Ommikron variant outbreak are completely effective, but the Ommikron mutation is completely effective. The characteristics of faster spread and strong concealment of strains require our prevention and control measures to be earlier, faster, stricter and more effective.

  Why did this round of epidemic spread to 27 provinces across the country?

  According to experts, from March 1 to 13, the local epidemic has reported more than 10,000 infected people, affecting 27 provinces across the country.

So why did this round of epidemics affect so many provinces?

  Wu Zunyou, chief expert of epidemiology at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Because of the strong contagion and concealment of Omicron, the symptoms are relatively mild and it is difficult to detect, which makes it more difficult for us to detect the earliest cases at the first time. This also caused the outbreak to occur at multiple points, multiple provinces, and multiple outbreaks at the same time.

  The national working group went to many places to guide the epidemic disposal work

  According to Lei Zhenglong, the first-level inspector of the National Health Commission's Disease Control Bureau, in response to the recent epidemic situation, the comprehensive group of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council quickly sent a national working group to Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Guangdong and other provinces have guided the handling of the epidemic, jointly analyzed and judged the epidemic situation, studied epidemic prevention and control measures, conducted daily inspections, put forward questions and suggestions in a timely manner, and urged local rectification and implementation.

  What is an antigen test?

Can self-test results replace nucleic acid results?

  In the past two days, "antigen detection" has attracted much attention.

On March 12, the State Food and Drug Administration issued a notice approving the official launch of five new coronavirus antigen self-test products.

Yesterday, the State Food and Drug Administration approved the registration application of 5 new crown antigen products.

Since then, a total of 10 new crown antigen self-test products have been officially launched.

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  So, what is an antigen test?

Can self-test results replace nucleic acid results?

The relevant person in charge of the National Health and Medical Commission said that due to the superposition of imported cases from overseas and local cases, the current domestic epidemic situation is showing a trend of local aggregation and multi-point distribution.

According to the characteristics of Omicron's transmission, the "antigen screening, nucleic acid diagnosis" monitoring mode is promoted, and residents can purchase tests by themselves, which is conducive to early detection and improves the sensitivity of monitoring and early warning.

  Li Jinming, deputy director of the National Health Commission's Clinical Laboratory Center: Because (cases) are scattered, how to control it?

Therefore, pushing out the antigen at this time is the most important application scenario. Although antigen detection is not as sensitive as nucleic acid, most of it can be detected when the virus concentration is relatively high.

  Experts say that antigen testing is fast and convenient.

The earlier an infected person is found, the less the virus spreads, the faster we can take preventive and control measures, and the faster we can finally achieve "dynamic zero".

  How to test for antigen self-test?

What are the steps?

  According to the "Basic Requirements and Procedures for New Coronavirus Antigen Self-Testing" issued by the National Health and Medical Commission, it is clear that the new coronavirus antigen self-testing is suitable for quarantine observers and community residents.