China News Service, Beijing, May 18 (Zhang Yilin) Recently, the number of newly confirmed local cases and asymptomatic infections in my country has declined, but local transmission has not been completely blocked in some places. The epidemic is spreading rapidly, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control is still severe and complicated.
On May 15, medical staff samples samples from citizens at a nucleic acid testing point in Sanlitun Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Jia Tianyong
At this critical period when the epidemic prevention and control work is stalemate, some people believe that due to economic considerations, "zeroing" should be abandoned and "flattened" as soon as possible, and some people believe that without intervention, the spread of the virus will also slow down.
my country is a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, with unbalanced regional development, insufficient medical resources, and a large number of elderly people. Some large cities have a relatively high population aging rate.
In the face of the repeated impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, if the new crown is regarded as the flu, no matter what it is, the medical and health resources will face a serious risk of running on the medical and health resources, and the health of a large number of people with basic diseases, the elderly, children and pregnant women will be seriously threatened.
Recently, Ma Xiaowei, Secretary and Director of the Party Group of the National Health and Health Commission, published an article saying that the Omicron variant is neither a "natural vaccine" nor a "big flu". huge public health and economic and social costs.
Ma Xiaowei said that a US study and Eurostat data show that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the average life expectancy of the US and EU countries has declined to varying degrees.
my country is a country with a large population, with a large aging population, unbalanced regional development, insufficient total medical resources, and a certain gap between the number of medical resources per capita and the level of medical technology compared with developed countries. The epidemic prevention and control is indispensable.
Just past May 12, the cumulative number of deaths from the new crown in the United States exceeded 1 million, which US President Biden called a "tragic milestone".
Behind the icy numbers are fresh lives.
On the whole, the fundamentals of my country's long-term economic improvement have not changed, and the impact of the epidemic is generally controllable.
At present, the global epidemic is still at a high level, and the virus is still mutating. It is far from the time to breathe a sigh of relief and rest. If we do not focus our strength and resources on "prevention" measures such as nucleic acid screening and isolation, it will inevitably cause a large number of population infected.
We must take a clear stand against the current wrong ideas such as the so-called "virus coexistence" and wrong arguments such as "virus influenza". In practice, we need to constantly optimize and upgrade prevention and control measures according to the new changes and new circumstances of the virus.
"Drilling a well is like abandoning a well; if a mountain is lost, there will be no success." In the face of this once-in-a-century epidemic test, cherish the hard-won results of prevention and control, and not only strengthen confidence, but also maintain vigilance and perseverance. Tighten the teeth, adhere to the general policy of "dynamic clearing" and unswervingly, ensure that all inspections should be carried out, all should be separated, all should be collected, and all should be treated, and resolutely win the tough battle of epidemic prevention and control.
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