As of 24:00 on January 28, the National Health Commission has received a total of 5,974 confirmed cases in 31 provinces, 1,239 severe cases, 132 deaths, and 103 cured and discharged from hospital.

Source: National Health Commission, CCTV News

From 0:00 to 24:00 on January 28, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 39 new confirmed cases, 263 new severe cases, 26 new deaths (25 in Hubei Province and 1 in Henan Province), 43 new cured and discharged cases, and 3,248 new suspected cases (including 1 in Tibet).

As of 24:00 on January 28, the National Health Commission received a total of 5,974 confirmed cases in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) , 1,239 severe cases, 3 deaths in total, and 103 cases were cured and discharged from hospital. currently has 9,239 suspected cases.

has been traced a total of 65,537 close contacts, 1,604 people were released from medical observation on the same day, and 59,990 people are currently undergoing medical observation.

cumulative confirmed cases have been reported from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: 8 cases in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 7 cases in the Macao Special Administrative Region, and 8 cases in Taiwan.

May have a vaccine in a few months?

Question: On 28, your national key laboratory successfully isolated the strain of the new coronavirus. Does the successful isolation of the strain mean we are closer to having a vaccine?

Li Lanjuan: Yes. The successful isolation of the virus strain means that we already have the seed strain of the vaccine. With the seed strain, the vaccine strain can be cultivated. Through the vaccine strain, we can prepare vaccines. There is a process for preparing a vaccine. It takes one and a half months to get the vaccine strain, and another one and a half months to approve it.

Is the number of infections approaching the peak?

Question: The number of confirmed cases on 28 has increased significantly. Does it mean that the number of infections is approaching the peak?

Li Lanjuan: The increase in the number of infections is in our expectation. Some time ago, the incubation period of second-generation or even third-generation disseminators exported from Wuhan to various provinces gradually passed and entered the onset period. Therefore, it should be the peak period for the onset of the disease.

Question: How far is it from the peak that we have passed and the number of infections has begun to decline?

Li Lanjuan: The key to is whether all infected people are isolated and whether all infected people are found. If we do these measures well, the numbers will drop quickly. If the infected person is hidden somewhere, patients will be produced and the number of infected persons cannot decrease once it is infected.

What should I do when dealing with asymptomatic infection cases?

Question: There are also many suspected cases and cases that have been subject to medical observation on 28. How will it be transformed in the future?

Li Lanjuan: Since suspected cases have been reported and isolated, some of them will definitely become confirmed patients. But they have been isolated, which is what we expect and is not scary. What is terrible is the invisible infected person that we don’t know yet, so we must strictly prevent and control it.

Question: We noticed that some asymptomatic infections appeared on the 28th. What do you think of asymptomatic infections?

Li Lanjuan: Now the most important thing for our epidemic prevention and control is to pay attention to people like . They were infected by accident, and they didn't know. Our advantage is that we can now use big data to determine whether we have contact with people from the epidemic area, and through technical means, we can understand the flow of everyone very clearly . This is very helpful for epidemic prevention and control.

How do people avoid contact and contagion?

Question: On the 28th, the National Health Commission announced the diagnosis and treatment plan for pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus infection (the fourth edition of the trial), and made it clear in the diagnosis and treatment plan that the novel coronavirus can be transmitted through contact. How should the public protect themselves in the next step? Have you changed your "control"?

Li Lanjuan: Now we have observed that in addition to droplet infection, the new coronavirus can also be transmitted through contact.Virus carriers may pollute the surrounding environment, and if we touch it everywhere, we may be infected through our hands, so we call on everyone to wash their hands frequently. The channels for droplet transmission and contact transmission have been determined, which allows everyone to understand and pay more attention to cutting off the transmission channels. By washing hands, our prevention work will be a little better.

Question: Do you need to wear gloves when ?

Li Lanjuan: Medical personnel in hospitals will be exposed to pollutants, so they must wear gloves. In the external environment, the amount of virus we are exposed to is limited, so just wash your hands frequently.