On November 30 and December 1, Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of the State Council, held two symposiums at the National Health Commission to listen to opinions and suggestions on optimizing and improving prevention and control measures from relevant experts and front-line representatives of prevention and control work.
With the overall rapid development of the national epidemic situation, the information disclosed in the two symposiums has attracted much attention.
Citizens of Taiyuan make nucleic acid (data map).
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For the first time since the epidemic
Since 2020, Sun Chunlan has visited the localities and the health care system for many times, and held many symposiums.
Among them, in the health and health system, so far, public reports show that she has held four symposiums.
On October 11, 2021, Sun Chunlan went to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate and hold an expert symposium to listen to opinions and suggestions on how to do a good job in the prevention and control work in autumn and winter under the normalized prevention and control situation.
On October 19, 2021, Sun Chunlan went to the Drug Evaluation Center of the State Food and Drug Administration to investigate and learn about the clinical trials and evaluation services of new coronavirus drugs, and held a symposium with relevant companies and experts to listen to opinions and suggestions on drug research and development.
On November 30, 2022, Sun Chunlan held a symposium at the National Health Commission to listen to the opinions and suggestions of relevant experts on optimizing and improving prevention and control measures.
On December 1, 2022, Sun Chunlan held a symposium at the National Health and Health Commission to listen to the opinions and suggestions of frontline representatives of prevention and control work on optimizing and improving prevention and control measures.
This is the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic that Sun Chunlan held a symposium on optimizing and improving prevention and control measures, and held two consecutive symposiums.
New Situation, New Task
"With the weakening of the pathogenicity of Omicron virus, the popularization of vaccination, and the accumulation of prevention and control experience, my country's epidemic prevention and control is facing new situations and new tasks." In a discussion with relevant experts on November 30, Sun Chunlan emphasized.
"New situation and new tasks" reveals that the situation of my country's epidemic prevention and control has changed.
The pathogenicity of 2019-nCoV is one of the key issues of public concern.
At the press conference of the Joint Defense and Control Mechanism of the State Council on November 29, the official stated that international and domestic monitoring data confirmed that the Omicron mutant strain and its evolutionary branches BA.1, BA.2, and BA.5 series, including The pathogenicity and virulence of BF.7, BQ.1 and the recombinant XBB were obviously weakened compared with the original strain and the mutant strains such as Delta.
Regarding the new crown virus vaccine, the official emphasized that the current situation of epidemic prevention and control is severe and complicated, and vaccination still has a good effect in preventing severe illness and death.
I hope that elderly friends, especially those over 80 years old, will take the initiative to get vaccinated.
On December 1, during a discussion with front-line representatives of the prevention and control work, Sun Chunlan mentioned that after nearly three years of fighting the epidemic, my country's medical and health care and disease control systems have withstood the test, and have effective diagnosis and treatment technologies and drugs, especially traditional Chinese medicine. , The complete vaccination rate of the whole population exceeds 90%, the health awareness and quality of the masses have improved significantly, and the pathogenicity of Omicron virus is weakening, creating conditions for further optimization and improvement of prevention and control measures.
Optimize and improve epidemic prevention and control measures
On November 30, Sun Chunlan pointed out that the prevention and control measures should be optimized and improved according to the time and situation.
On December 1, Sun Chunlan pointed out that promoting the implementation of various optimization measures will bear fruit.
Why can we "further" optimize and improve the prevention and control measures at this time?
Sun Chunlan made a judgment at the symposium on December 1:
After nearly three years of fighting against the epidemic, my country's medical and health care and disease control system has withstood the test. It has effective diagnosis and treatment technologies and medicines, especially traditional Chinese medicine. The complete vaccination rate of the whole population exceeds 90%, and the public's health awareness and quality have been significantly improved. In addition, the pathogenicity of Omicron virus is weakening, creating conditions for further optimization and improvement of prevention and control measures.
The pathogenicity of Omicron virus is weakening
As one of the conditions for optimizing and improving prevention and control measures, Sun Chunlan mentioned the statement about the weakened pathogenicity of Omicron virus at the symposia on November 30 and December 1.
"Global Times" reported on December 1 that recently, a confirmatory study data from a domestic scientific research team showed that compared with the original strain of the new coronavirus and other mutant strains that emerged later, the Omicron mutant strain The pathogenicity showed a geometric progression decline.
On November 30, Professor Chong Yutian, professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and head of the Guangzhou Huangpu Fangcang Medical Team, said in an interview with the media that at present, after infection with the new crown Aomecron mutant strain, most of them are It is widely known and recognized that asymptomatic infection or mild disease rarely develops into severe disease.
"At present, the academic community has not confirmed that there are sequelae of new coronary pneumonia. At least there is no evidence that there are sequelae."
How to optimize and improve the twenty measures?
Sun Chunlan made demands in both symposiums:
Continuously improve measures such as diagnosis, testing, admission, and isolation, strengthen immunization of the entire population, especially the elderly, and speed up the preparation of treatment drugs and medical resources.
Enrich grass-roots professional prevention and control forces, strengthen graded diagnosis and treatment in community medical and health institutions, strengthen residents' health management and services, and promote the implementation of various optimization measures to bear fruit.
At the same time, Sun Chunlan also stated that it is necessary to implement the requirements of "preventing the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, and ensuring safe development" to ensure the health and safety of the people and economic and social development.
take small steps without stopping
Regarding the next step of epidemic prevention and control work, Sun Chunlan emphasized that people-centered, the prevention and control work is making steady progress, and the prevention and control policies continue to be optimized, taking small steps without stopping.
"Take small steps without stopping" is a sentence Sun Chunlan mentioned in both symposiums.
This is not the first time this sentence has been put forward. In a teleconference held by the Joint Defense and Control Mechanism of the State Council on November 11, Sun Chunlan pointed out that the 20 optimization measures are the improvement of the ninth version of the prevention and control plan. Grasping the law of variation and transmission and summarizing the experience of prevention and control in various places in the past three years is a more scientific and precise measure to make progress while making steady progress, taking small steps without stopping, in line with my country's national conditions.
During a discussion with front-line representatives of the prevention and control work, Sun Chunlan once again emphasized that it is an important experience of my country's epidemic prevention and control to insist on making progress while maintaining stability, taking small steps without stopping, and actively optimizing and improving prevention and control policies.
Several experts and representatives spoke
A reporter from Chinanews found that at the symposium, 8 experts including Zhang Boli, Shen Hongbing, Wang Junzhi, Liang Wannian, Du Bin, Feng Zijian, Yang Weizhong, and Dong Xiaoping, as well as 8 front-line representatives of prevention and control work all made speeches, all of which involved " Put forward opinions and suggestions on optimizing and improving the twenty measures."
At the previous symposium, Sun Chunlan fully affirmed the important contributions of experts in prevention and control, hoping to continue to give full play to their professional advantages, carry forward the scientific spirit, deepen research on key issues, and contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic.
At the latter symposium, Sun Chunlan emphasized that party committees and governments at all levels should care for grassroots frontline epidemic prevention personnel and ensure their work and life.
Source: China News Service (CNS1952) synthesized from China News Network (reporter Yuan Xiuyue), Xinhua News Agency, political opinion