At the beginning of the month, the mainland officially changed the new crown infection from “Class B and A” to “B and B”, canceled strict prevention and control measures, and resumed inbound and outbound travel. President Xi Jinping expressed condolences to grassroots cadres and people from all over the country through a video link on Wednesday ( Picture), emphasizing that “Class B and A management” is the correct choice in the past three years. It has withstood the impact of multiple rounds of virus mutations and minimized the rate of severe illness and death. time.
Xi Jinping said that the current epidemic prevention and control has entered a new stage and is still in a tough time, “but the dawn is ahead, and persistence is victory.”
The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference yesterday, pointing out that all provinces have passed the peak of fever clinics, emergency peaks and critically ill patients. The number of fever outpatients nationwide reached its peak on the 23rd of last month, and then continued to decline. By Tuesday, it had dropped by 94% from the peak and fell back to the level before the 7th of last month. The number of positive patients in hospitals across the country peaked on the 5th of this month and fell by 44.3% as of Tuesday. The proportion of COVID-19 patients in general outpatient clinics has also gradually decreased. As of Tuesday, the rate of non-COVID-19 outpatient visits in general outpatient clinics reached 99.5%, indicating that normal outpatient clinics are gradually recovering.
XAY.2 raises concerns about disease control in China: China has not found
In addition, the new variant virus “Deltacon” (Deltacon) XAY.2 recently detected in Thailand has attracted the attention of many mainland people. Chang Zhaorui, a researcher at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press conference that XAY.2 is a The recombinants of Omircon BA.4, BA.5 and Delta AY.45 were first discovered in South Africa on August 31 last year. Since December of the same year, XAY.2 infection has increased in a very small number of countries such as Denmark, and currently there are 9 countries in the world XAY.2 has been detected in countries and regions, but China has not yet detected it. At present, there is not enough data on the transmission, pathogenicity and immune escape ability of XAY.2.
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