Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a day when people welcome the God of Wealth. New news about the epidemic in China has come. The nationwide epidemic has entered a low epidemic period. Now the exact data has been released.
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Since the implementation of the "B Category B Control" for new coronavirus infections on January 8, the frequency of CDC announcing the epidemic situation is no longer once a day, first it was changed to once a week, and finally once a month.
Today let’s take a look at what new news is coming about the epidemic in my country.
The first news is that the number of nucleic acid tests for has plummeted.
In the past two days, Dongxiang District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province issued a notice to conduct nucleic acid testing for all employees. It also made people think about the days dominated by nucleic acid testing. So, what is the current situation of nucleic acid testing? What changes has nucleic acid testing undergone in the past month or so has become one of the issues that people are concerned about. The epidemic situation announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on January 25 gave a detailed explanation of this issue.
After my country released new epidemic optimization measures on December 7 It has been clearly announced that nucleic acid testing for all employees has been cancelled. Instead, key personnel will be tested regularly and voluntary testing will be implemented. Since then, nucleic acid testing for all employees has left our lives, and the demand for nucleic acid testing has also dropped rapidly. According to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on December 9, 2022 The number of nucleic acid tests per day was 150 million. By January 1, 2023, it had dropped to 7.54 million, and by January 23, it had dropped to 280,000. The number of nucleic acid tests can be said to have plummeted, and it has now become far away from people's lives.
In fact, the data released this time are seriously inconsistent with the previous data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For example, the data this time clearly show that the number of nucleic acid positive people reached a peak of 6.94 million on December 22. So, have the new data released by either the National Health Commission or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ever been so high before? There is definitely not one and the published data is not even the slightest bit different from the data given this time!
In any case, nucleic acid testing has basically been removed from people’s lives.
The second news is that the number of hospitalized and critically ill patients related to new coronavirus infection has plummeted.
In order to understand the current epidemic situation without conducting large-scale nucleic acid testing, the treatment of new coronavirus infections in medical institutions has become the key. Two of the key indicators are the number of hospitalized patients and the number of critically ill patients.
It is understood that the number of hospitalized patients related to new coronavirus infection was 470,000 on January 19, and dropped to 248,000 on January 23, which dropped by about half in 4 days. The number of severe patients also dropped from 51,000 on January 19 to 36,000 on January 23. This also shows that the epidemic situation is improving rapidly.
The third news is that the number of deaths from the new crown is still increasing rapidly.
In addition to the good news, there is also distressing bad news in the latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on January 25. That is, there were still as many as 896 new coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals on January 23. , although the number of deaths related to the new coronavirus infection in the hospital continues to decline, the number of daily deaths is still very high. From the data released this time, we can also know that the peak number of deaths related to the new coronavirus infection in the hospital in a single day during the first wave of the epidemic reached 4,237 on January 4!
Of course, what is announced here is the number of deaths related to new coronavirus infection while hospitalized in medical institutions. There is another part that is not included in the statistics, that is, patients who have not yet arrived or who died after being sent to the hospital for treatment. Such cases are more common in rural areas because of living habits and difficulty in transportation.
The fourth news is that experts say it is unlikely that the XBB and BQ.1 strains will become popular in the first half of the year.
Now that we have smoothly passed the first wave of the epidemic, and with the further optimization of epidemic prevention and control measures, whether the main epidemic strains in Europe and the United States and other countries will trigger a new round of spread in our country has become the focus of attention. Experts have unanimously stated that it is unlikely that the XBB and BQ.1 strains will trigger a new round of epidemics in the country in a short period of time.
Li Tong, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases at Beijing You'an Hospital, said in an interview on January 25 that with the liberalization of my country's entry and exit policies, there will be more infected patients with XBB and BQ.1 strains in the future, but my country has just experienced the first wave of the epidemic. Under the circumstances, it is unlikely that these two strains will cause widespread infection in the first half of this year, because the current main epidemic strains in my country, BA5.2 and BF7, and these two strains belong to the Omicron mutant strain, and they still have strong protection against these two strains in a short period of time after being infected once.
The fifth news is that our country will continue to promote medical resources to be more tilted towards villages and towns.
The epidemic in rural areas is now the focus of epidemic prevention and control. During the Spring Festival, the number of people returning home increased, coupled with the low temperature and cold wave in many places, so the epidemic prevention and control in rural areas is still at a critical stage, especially in rural areas, which have vast geographical areas and scattered residential areas. It is relatively difficult to deliver drugs and transport severe cases in areas such as districts, forested areas, pastoral areas, and islands. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in related work. While strengthening the protection of key personnel, we should promote the sinking of medical resources, effectively reduce the rate of severe cases in rural areas, and enable rural areas to meet the basic requirements of "having medicines available, diseases that can be treated, and vehicles that can be transferred."
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