China News Service, June 28th Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the National Health Commission's Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention and first-level inspector, said on the 28th that the recent epidemic prevention and control has achieved remarkable results, and the national epidemic situation is generally at a low level. Sporadic social infections continue to occur in some areas, and the risk of community transmission still exists.
The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the 28th on scientific and precise epidemic prevention and control work.
Photo by China News Service reporter Jia Tianyong "
On June 13, people took samples at a nucleic acid testing site in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Jia Tianyong
Lei Zhenglong said that the recent domestic local epidemic mainly has the following characteristics:
First, the recent epidemic prevention and control has achieved remarkable results. The overall epidemic situation in the country has been at a low level. Since June 18, the number of reported infections nationwide has been less than 50 every day. In the past week (June 20-June 27), There are 198 cases of infection reported proactively across the country, involving 24 prefectures and cities in 10 provinces, with an average of 25 cases reported every day.
Secondly, sporadic social infections continue to occur in some areas, and the risk of community transmission still exists, and the scope of activities of infected personnel before control. It is relatively widespread, so some places have formed a relatively long tailing period of clearance.
Third, Omicron BA.2 is still the main virus strain in my country's local epidemic, but we must be highly vigilant about Omicron BA.4. and BA.5 are imported from abroad, because BA.4 and BA.5 have been recently discovered in imported cases abroad, and there are signs of increasing numbers.
Lei Zhenglong said that overall, the global epidemic is still continuing to develop. The new coronavirus continues to evolve, and there are still many uncertainties in the spread of the Omicron variant. The situation of epidemic prevention and control in my country is still severe. The epidemic prevention and control work is long-term, arduous, and complex. We must also Based on the new characteristics of the virus, we will continue to dynamically optimize various prevention and control measures, implement scientific prevention and control, and implement precise policies to resolutely maintain the bottom line of preventing a large-scale rebound of the epidemic and more effectively coordinate epidemic prevention and control and social and economic development.
Source: China News Network.
