(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Newly-infected persons in Jilin City, a new high-risk area in Beijing, are all engaged in imported cold chain work
China News Agency, Beijing, June 21. Comprehensive news: 34 new cases of local infection (confirmed + asymptomatic) were added in mainland China on the 20th, and the number of cases was less than 50 for 3 consecutive days.
There are still consecutive infections in the cluster epidemic involving bars in Beijing, and a community in Changping District has been elevated to a high-risk area.
37 new confirmed cases in mainland China
China's National Health Commission announced on the 21st that there were 37 new confirmed cases in mainland China on the 20th, including 28 imported cases and 9 local cases.
There were 105 new asymptomatic infections, of which 80 were imported from abroad and 25 were local.
No new deaths were reported.
As of 24:00 on the 20th, there were 809 confirmed cases in mainland China, a total of 5,226 deaths, and a total of 225,318 confirmed cases.
There are currently 254 confirmed cases imported from abroad, with a total of 19,113 confirmed cases and no deaths.
Official data showed that there were 34 new local infections in mainland China on the 20th, and the number of cases fell below 50 for three consecutive days.
Among them, there were 9 new local confirmed cases, which once again fell to single digits.
The above cases were from Shanghai (6 cases) and Beijing (3 cases).
There were 25 new cases of local asymptomatic infections that day, distributed in 6 provinces: 10 in Jilin, 6 in Liaoning, 3 in Shanghai, and 2 each in Beijing, Guangdong, and Guangxi.
Beijing added a new high-risk area related to the bar epidemic and there are still secondary infections
Beijing added 5 new cases of local infection on the 20th, all of which were quarantined observers; 5 cases of local infection were added from 0:00 to 15:00 on the 21st, 2 of which were found in the social screening of Changping District and Daxing District respectively.
From June 9th to 15:00 on June 21st, a total of 384 local infections were reported in Beijing, involving 14 districts and economic development zones.
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on the 21st that the laboratory of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted genetic sequencing on the samples of the four infected persons notified on the 19th and 20th, and the viruses all belonged to the Omicron variant.
The results of the gene sequence comparison showed that all 4 infected persons came from the clustered epidemic transmission chain of the Paradise supermarket bar.
According to reports, a community of Xiaotangshan Town, Changping District, Beijing has reported 6 local confirmed cases in the past 14 days, and it has been upgraded from a medium-risk area to a high-risk area on the 21st.
Up to now, Beijing has 1 high-risk area and 3 medium-risk areas.
Beijing officials said that the addition of social cases in Changping District and Daxing District once again reminded Beijing that the epidemic prevention and control situation is complicated, and there are still risks of hidden social transmission in some areas.
It is necessary to increase screening in key areas, continue to comprehensively and thoroughly investigate risk personnel and locations, strictly implement prevention and control measures such as nucleic acid testing, antigen self-testing, and health monitoring, and resolutely cut off the spread of the epidemic.
Shanghai added 6 local confirmed cases and 3 asymptomatic infections on the 20th, of which social screening found 1 confirmed case and 1 asymptomatic infection.
As of 24:00 on the 20th, Shanghai has reported a total of 58,120 local confirmed cases of the current round of the epidemic, 91 of which are currently being treated in hospitals, and a total of 588 deaths.
Many people in China's men's volleyball team have been diagnosed with new infections in Jilin City, all of whom are engaged in imported cold chain work
The Chinese Volleyball Association issued a notice on the evening of the 20th, saying that many Chinese teams participating in the World Men's Volleyball League were infected with new coronary pneumonia and could not gather at least 6 players to participate in the match against the French team originally scheduled to be held on the 22nd Beijing time. The team was deemed to abstain and was sentenced to a 0-3 loss.
The 2022 World Men's Volleyball League will be divided into three competitions.
According to reports, after the first stop in Brasilia, the Chinese men's volleyball team arrived in the Philippines on the evening of June 17 to participate in the Quezon competition. On the 18th, many people tested positive for entry antigens. After re-examination, many people were diagnosed. Infection with new coronary pneumonia.
On the 20th, Jilin Province added 10 new cases of local asymptomatic infections, all of which were reported by Jilin City.
In the past two days, Jilin City has reported 11 local infections.
Jilin City announced on the 21st that the newly infected people in Jilin City on the 20th and the newly infected people in the city on the 19th were both staff members of a company's imported cold chain food processing workshop, and their close contacts were detected during the centralized isolation period.
On the 20th, Jilin City organized a whole-area nucleic acid test in the six districts of the city. A total of 1.563 million people were sampled, and no new positive people were detected.
Shenzhen reports 2 more local infections, Dandong epidemic fluctuates down
Guangdong Province reported 2 new cases of local asymptomatic infections on the 20th, both of which were reported in Shenzhen.
According to a report from Shenzhen, the above-mentioned infected persons were all found during the inspection of close contacts under quarantine observation.
After preliminary investigation, the main activity tracks of the new cases in recent days were in Futian District and Luohu District, involving hospitals, clothing stores, bakeries and other places.
At present, Shenzhen is carrying out the disposal work in an orderly manner, including traceability, isolation and control, nucleic acid testing, and medical treatment.
There were no new local confirmed cases in Liaoning Province on the 20th, and 6 new cases of local asymptomatic infections were reported in Dandong City.
As of 24:00 on the 20th, a total of 233 local infections have been reported in Dandong in this round of epidemic.
According to the official introduction of Dandong City, at present, the "5.24" epidemic in Dandong has shown a fluctuating downward trend, but the risk of epidemic transmission still exists.
Among the 227 local infections as of June 19, 185 were asymptomatic infections, accounting for 81.49%.
According to reports, as a port city of arrival, the complexity, arduousness and repetition of the epidemic prevention and control work in Dandong are more prominent.
To this end, Dandong City has further standardized the management of prevention areas on the basis that the original closed and controlled areas and control areas continued to be managed in accordance with regulations, and established general prevention areas and upgraded prevention areas throughout the city.
For areas with local infections, "silent" management is implemented within a certain range to ensure that the risk of spreading the epidemic can be effectively blocked in the shortest time.
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