This afternoon (April 6), the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference.
At the meeting, Lei Zhenglong, deputy director and first-level inspector of the National Health Commission's Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that from March 1 to April 5, a total of 176,455 local infections were reported nationwide, affecting 29 provinces, showing an overall epidemic range. Widespread, large-scale outbreaks are intertwined with sporadic outbreaks, and spillover cases and secondary outbreaks occur frequently.
Since mid-March, with the effective implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures in various places, Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei, etc., of the five provinces and cities with severe epidemics before, have shown a positive trend, but the epidemics in Shanghai and Jilin are still developing.
The epidemic situation in Shanghai is at its peak, with more than 90,000 cases reported cumulatively. There has been a lot of community transmission and spilled over to many provinces and cities. The situation of prevention and control 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.
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 still effective in responding to the new local outbreak caused by the Omicron variant, and it is scientifically necessary.
The stated goal of dynamic clearing can be achieved.
(CCTV reporter Shi Yingchun Liu Tingyu)