The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (12) that there were 92 new cases of immigration from China, a new high in history. Among them, 60% of the long-haul flights had landed inspections, with 58 people. Among them, the positive rate of flights returning from the United States to Taiwan was extremely high. , the positive rate of one class is as high as 14.29%, which is equal to 1 confirmed case for every 7 people, and 34 people are diagnosed with home quarantine inspection.
In order to prevent the Omicron epidemic from entering the mainland, the command center began to carry out on-the-spot inspections for long-haul flights from yesterday, and they were released from the airport only after the results were obtained by rapid PCR. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shizhong announced the results of the inspection today and found that the positive rate of long-haul flights was as high as 9.28%.
Chen Shizhong announced today that there are 92 cases of immigration from abroad, of which 58 cases are long-distance landing inspections. Among these 58 cases, the United States has the largest number of 5 flights, followed by Turkey (148), the United Arab Emirates (109), and Australia. (41).
Chen Shizhong pointed out that the 58 positive cases announced today do not include the number of confirmed cases this morning, and this morning, 6 flights have completed the landing test, including 3 flights from the United States, but one flight has a positive rate as high as 14.29%. , and the other three shifts are from France, Germany, and Australia. The positive rate throughout the morning was slightly lower than yesterday, reaching 5.57%.
Since most of the positive cases tested on the ground are from the United States, are you considering upgrading the United States? Chen Shizhong said that the whole world is now at high risk, and there are probably only measures such as grounding flight points and flights, but it is still not done at present. After all, the rate of severe cases is not high, but the diagnosis rate is high. There is considerable protection ability to strictly guard.
He emphasized that the positive rate of nearly 10% is now seen because a long-haul flight is currently selected for on-the-ground inspection. If you zoom in on the whole, there were more than 2,000 people who entered the country yesterday, and only 58 people were diagnosed. The positive rate is about 2.5% to 2.5%. Between 3%, it does not mean that 3,000 people entering the country every day will be infected with 300 people, “not so high”, and through this mechanism, it is believed that more than 70-80% of the infected people can be caught.
Chen Shizhong also said that he will not consider placing all passengers entering the United States into a centralized quarantine center, because once the patients are mobilized on a large scale, the risk of movement will increase relatively, so there is no need for this. Most of the positive cases are moved to the hospital, which appears to be well established.
The command center explained that today’s new cases of immigration from abroad are 25 males, 27 females, and 40 under investigation, aged between 5 and 70 years old, from the United States (34 cases), Vietnam, Australia and the Philippines ( 4 cases each), the United Arab Emirates (2 cases), Germany, France and the United Kingdom (1 case each); the other 41 cases are under investigation. The entry date is from December 28, 2021 to January 11, 2022.
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