(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Since March, China has reported more than 170,000 local infections
China News Service, Beijing, April 6 (Reporter Li Chun) Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the National Health Commission's CDC and first-level inspector, said in Beijing on the 6th that from March 1 to April 5, the cumulative A total of 176,455 local infections have been reported, affecting 29 provinces. The epidemic is generally characterized by a wide range of epidemics, large-scale epidemics intertwined with sporadic epidemics, and multiple spillover cases and secondary epidemics. Currently, the epidemic in Shanghai is at its peak.
Data map: In the PCR laboratory of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Science and Technology, the inspectors added the samples to be tested to the nucleic acid extraction kit in the biological safety cabinet.
Photo by Chen Bin
On the same day, the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference.
Lei Zhenglong said at the meeting that since mid-March, with the effective implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures in various places, among the five provinces and cities where the epidemic was more serious, Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei, etc. all showed a positive trend, but Shanghai and The epidemic situation in Jilin is still developing.
The epidemic in Shanghai is at its peak, with more than 90,000 reported cases of infection. There has been a lot of community transmission and spilled over to many provinces and cities. The prevention and control situation is very severe.
Jilin Province has reported more than 60,000 cases of infection. The epidemic situation in Changchun City continues to progress and is still at a high level; the fluctuation of the epidemic situation in the main urban area of Jilin City has decreased.
Lei Zhenglong emphasized that the effective control of the epidemic in many places has proved that strict and strict measures such as isolation, control, sealing and control, and screening are taken as the core to deal with the local clustered epidemic caused by the Omicron variant. If necessary, the established policy of "dynamic clearing" can be implemented.
In the next step, the comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council will continue to guide all localities to improve their ability to respond to large-scale epidemics, raise awareness and unify their thinking. , carefully and practically implement various prevention and control measures, and resolutely build a strong epidemic prevention and control barrier.
Talking about how long the spread of the epidemic across the country will continue, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the duration of this epidemic situation depends on our prevention and control strategies and the strength of the implementation of prevention and control measures. .
Adhere to the general strategy of "foreign defense against imports, internal defense against rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic clearing", and strictly implement prevention and control measures in every link. The recent situation of multiple epidemics will soon improve.
Wu Zunyou pointed out that due to the impact of the fourth wave of the global epidemic, especially the high level of the epidemic situation in neighboring countries and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, the "foreign import prevention" pressure is particularly high, and the "four early" policy of the epidemic must be adhered to, namely Early detection, early reporting, early isolation, and early treatment, implement the responsibilities of the Quartet, and implement prevention and control measures.
The general public should put in place individual measures for normalized prevention and control.
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