Recently, the COVID-19 epidemic in neighboring countries has rebounded rapidly, and the pressure on China’s foreign defense imports has continued to increase. The epidemic situation in Hainan and other places has attracted much attention. At the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held on the 10th, relevant departments and experts gave an authoritative interpretation of the current epidemic situation, the characteristics of the new Omicron mutant strain and other issues.
html More than 30,000 medical and health personnel are supporting Hainan. National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng said that at present, the epidemic in Sanya, Hainan is still at a high level. The epidemic situation in many places in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong and other provinces is still in the stage of rapid development, and there is a certain risk of social transmission. Lhasa, Shigatse, Ngari and other places in Tibet have recently reported new local epidemics, and the risk of spread is high. Local clusters of epidemics that occurred in Gansu, Guangxi, Shandong and other provinces have been effectively controlled.
In order to control the epidemic as soon as possible, the national level has increased support for Hainan. Guo Yanhong, Supervisor of the Medical Administration and Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission, said that the comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council sent a working group to Hainan to guide and stationed to support the epidemic prevention and control work. At the same time, it quickly coordinated the national medical force and nucleic acid testing resources.
"We have deployed more than 10,000 medical and health personnel from 19 provinces across the country to support Hainan, and deployed nearly 8,000 testing personnel, sampling personnel and related testing equipment to increase Hainan's nucleic acid testing capacity to 2.4 million single tubes per day. ." Guo Yanhong said.
According to reports, the working group also guided Hainan to do door-to-door sampling and conduct single-person, single-tube and household-one-tube testing in high-risk areas. Medium-risk areas should conduct mixed-tube testing at a ratio of 1:5 and minimize mixed-tube testing at a ratio of 1:10. proportion, so as to detect infected persons as soon as possible in a short period of time; at the same time, it guides the local area to improve the efficiency of epidemic response, so as to detect all the necessary cases, isolate all the cases, collect all the cases that should be collected, and treat all the cases that should be treated.
Regarding the recent local epidemic in Tibet, Guo Yanhong introduced that the Tibet Autonomous Region has actively promoted all aspects of preparations for epidemic response in accordance with unified national deployment and requirements. The comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council has also dispatched working groups and inspection, circulation, treatment, community National experts in prevention and control went to Tibet to guide epidemic prevention and control. Through comprehensive inter-provincial counterpart support, Tibet can also apply for medical and epidemic prevention and control support from relevant provinces. Therefore, Tibet is capable of coping with the current epidemic.
New mutant strains bring challenges but can still effectively deal with
Recently, the Omicron BA.5 strain and its evolutionary branches have been detected in many places in my country. How to effectively prevent and control the response?
Dong Xiaoping, chief expert of virology at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that domestic and foreign studies have shown that compared with other Omicron mutant strains, the epidemic characteristics and transmission characteristics of the Omicron BA.5 variant have not been Essential changes occur, but the immune evasion ability is enhanced. At present, all localities are following the requirements of the new version of the prevention and control plan, based on rapid and accurate risk management and control, and actively responding. Almost every epidemic can be effectively controlled in a short time. This also reflects the ninth version of the prevention and control plan. The Mikron variant is effective.
"The first key element in epidemic management is 'early detection'." Dong Xiaoping said that the ninth edition of the prevention and control plan requires the implementation of eight categories of multi-channel monitoring and early warning, including people, objects, and the environment, and pays attention to the monitoring and traceability of new mutant strains. question. This version of the plan more prominently embodies the concepts and measures of precise and scientific prevention and control, adheres to the general policy of "dynamic clearing", and puts forward higher requirements for the implementation of various normalized measures and work quality.
Wang Huaqing, chief expert on the immunization program at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the vaccines currently used in our country are significant and clear in preventing severe illness and death. At present, the epidemic is still causing serious harm to the elderly, especially those who have not yet been vaccinated. It is recommended that eligible elderly people get vaccinated as soon as possible and complete booster vaccinations at specified intervals.
Continue to optimize measures to facilitate people’s safe and orderly travel
Added the ability to query nucleic acid test results from other provinces and cities and upload them to Health Treasure, launch nucleic acid information related services, and provincial and national nucleic acid test databases can be switched at any time... Recently, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control The Comprehensive Group of Control Mechanisms issued a document requiring the mutual recognition of nucleic acid test results across the country, and local governments quickly organized and implemented them.
"These measures are all for the convenience of the masses, and they are currently progressing smoothly." Mi Feng said that the next step will be to further improve the timeliness of information sharing, optimize and improve health code management, and make it more convenient for the masses to travel safely and orderly.
At the same time, the ninth version of the prevention and control plan has optimized the control cycle for immigrants, close contacts, and medium- and high-risk areas. Will the risk of epidemic spread increase as a result?
"On the basis of strict control and nucleic acid testing of relevant community personnel, shortening the control period will not increase the risk of epidemic spread." Director of the Center for STD and AIDS Prevention and Control at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Han Mengjie said.
Han Mengjie said that from April to May 2022, the comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council carried out pilot research on optimizing prevention and control measures for the new coronavirus epidemic in some regions across the country. research found that the average incubation period of Omicron mutants is shortened, mostly from 2 to 4 days, and most of them can be detected within 7 days. Based on the research results and prevention and control practices in many places in China, the optimization of the ninth edition of the prevention and control plan takes into account the best prevention and control effect at the minimum cost and expense.
Source: Xinhua Viewpoint
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