People all over the country are suffering from fever recently. Many people question whether domestic epidemic prevention and control is relaxed too quickly? In response to this issue, Liang Wannian, leader of the expert team of the National Health and Medical New Crown Epidemic Leading Group, responded to the media in an interview in Beijing today.
Liang Wannian
Liang Wannian said that the adjustment of domestic epidemic prevention and control policies is based on comprehensive understanding of pathogens and diseases, population immunity levels and health system resistance capabilities, social public health intervention measures and other conditions to make decisions.
Liang Wannian emphasized that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the country has been closely evaluating three factors. Focusing on this basic theoretical framework and thinking, as people's understanding of diseases and pathogens deepens, population immunity levels are gradually established, and resistance resilience increases, China continues to improve diagnosis, treatment and prevention and control plans according to the times and circumstances.
From the nine versions of the prevention and control plan, the twenty optimization measures, the "New Ten" since 2020, to the adjustment to "Category B and B Pipeline", all reflect China's balance of these three factors.
New Crown Implementation Category B B Management
Liang Wannian said that this epidemic policy adjustment is not to completely let it go, but to allocate resources more scientifically and accurately to the most important prevention and control tasks and treatment tasks.
History will give the answer to the question of the speed of this adjustment. In response to foreign comments that China does not provide genome sequence data of virus strains, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responded that since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has uploaded the genetic sequence to the World Health Organization's influenza sharing platform as soon as possible, so that various countries can develop diagnostic reagents and vaccines based on this genetic sequence.
China has done this before and will continue to do so in the future. Once a new variant or mutation is discovered that causes changes in the pathogenicity, transmissibility, virulence, etc. of the virus , China will promptly notify the World Health Organization and make corresponding optimization, improvement and adjustments in prevention and control plans, medical treatment, etc.
The West’s claim that China will no longer announce virus strains is completely nonsense. This is another slanderous rumor by the West against China’s epidemic prevention and control.
We must maintain a clear understanding and mind about this and must not be led by people with ulterior motives in the West. Over the past three years, China's epidemic prevention and control achievements have been unparalleled in the world. Under the protection of the state, the Chinese people have escaped the most virulent stage of the virus.
We spent three years of strict prevention and control in exchange for the weakening of the virus's toxicity and the best time to release the epidemic. This is our strategic victory.
Did you not see that when the virus was at its most virulent, more than 1 million people died in the United States and more than 2 million people died in Europe. However, the number of deaths due to the new crown in our country was less than a fraction of that in European and American countries!
The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States
Which one is better and which one is worse? It will be clear after comparison! As for whether the country's epidemic prevention and control measures have been relaxed too quickly, history will judge.
Until history proves it, I firmly believe that the country is right! Friends, what are your opinions?
