China News Agency, Washington, August 11 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated the epidemic prevention guidelines for the new crown epidemic on the 11th local time, canceling the maintenance of "social distance" and other content.
In the updated epidemic prevention guidelines released on the same day, the CDC canceled the 6-foot "social distance" requirement that had been implemented since the beginning of the outbreak; the tracing of close contacts will be limited to high-risk groups such as hospitals and nursing homes; no more emphasis Regular testing; those who have been in close contact with COVID-19 but are not infected no longer need to be quarantined.
On December 1, 2021, local time, a "drive-through" new coronavirus testing station set up at the Alemany Farmers Market in San Francisco, California, the United States provides testing services to citizens.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
The CDC's epidemic prevention content includes recommending that people with flu-like symptoms and close contacts should be tested for the new crown; those who test positive for the new crown need to be isolated at home for at least 5 days, and then wear a mask when going out for 10 days.
CDC expert Greta Massetti (Greta Massetti) said that the reason for updating the epidemic prevention guidance is that the current epidemic situation has been very different from the past two years.
"A high percentage of the population has been immunized through vaccines or infection, and the current focus can be on protecting critically ill patients."
The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States remains "high" despite the CDC's updated guidelines for epidemic prevention.
CDC data shows that there were 130,000 new cases of new crowns on the 10th, and the average daily number of new cases in the past 7 days exceeded 100,000, much higher than the daily average of 25,000 cases in early April; in terms of the number of deaths, 666 new cases were added on the 10th. There were 400 deaths per day in the past 7 days.
According to a study by the University of Washington, the actual number of people infected with the new crown may be seven times higher than the statistics because many people currently choose to self-test at home and not report the results.
According to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 22:00 on the 11th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States exceeded 92.71 million, and the number of deaths exceeded 1.036 million.
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