Guangming.com (Reporter Cai Lin) On March 15, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control and vaccination. Lei Zhenglong, deputy director and first-level inspector of the National Health Commission’s Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, said that the current Omicron variant has become the dominant strain in the world, imported from my country, and local epidemics.
Lei Zhenglong introduced that the Omicron variant has significantly enhanced transmission power than other new coronavirus variants. The proportion of Omicron BA.2 subclades has increased significantly in the past two months, and The clinical manifestations of infected people are mainly asymptomatic and mild, which leads to the latent spread of the epidemic, and the detection is relatively late, resulting in frequent local epidemics in the near future, making it more difficult to trace the source and prevent and control, which also requires earlier and more effective prevention and control measures. Faster, stricter, more solid.
Lei Zhenglong pointed out that relevant experts have analyzed and judged that my country’s current general policy of “dynamic clearing” and a series of prevention and control measures are effective in dealing with the Omicron variant. Inoculation of the new crown vaccine can effectively reduce the severe rate and the fatality rate. As of March 14, a total of 3,198.272 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been reported nationwide, with a total of 1,272,537,000 people vaccinated, and 1,239,171,000 people have been fully vaccinated. Among them, the number of people over the age of 60 covered by the new coronavirus vaccine reached 221.226 million, and 211.62 million people completed the whole course of vaccination.
What are the countermeasures for the characteristics of the Omicron variant? Lei Zhenglong introduced that the National Health and Health Commission will work with relevant departments to focus on the goal of “controlling frequency, reducing scale, and preventing severe illness”, and instructs localities to further strengthen the implementation of normalized prevention and control measures from the following aspects.
One is to guard the entrance gates outside the prison. Implement the “quartet” responsibilities and strengthen closed-loop management. Continue to adhere to the prevention of people, objects, and the environment, and strengthen the closed-loop management of high-risk groups such as entry personnel and ports, centralized isolation points, designated medical institutions, and imported cold chain workers. Strengthen the whole chain inspection of imported cold chain food and international freight, strengthen the management of cross-border truck drivers at land ports, and further reduce the risk of epidemic importation.
The second is to adhere to the “four early” principles, and implement prevention and control measures for key groups of people, key places, and key areas. In particular, we will strengthen monitoring and early warning, strictly implement the “exhaustive inspection” of nucleic acids for people in high-risk positions, strengthen the health management of people in medium and high-risk areas, give full play to the role of “sentinel sites” such as medical institutions and pharmacies, and promote “antigen screening, Nucleic acid diagnosis” monitoring mode, improve the monitoring and early warning system, and improve the timeliness of discovery. At the same time, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of cross-regional coordinated investigations, so as to conduct on-the-ground investigations on risk groups as soon as possible, focusing on schools, factory workshops, construction sites, farmers markets and other crowded places, and strictly normalize prevention and control measures to achieve early Detect the epidemic and eliminate it as soon as possible.
The third is to promote the vaccination of the new coronavirus in an orderly manner. Promote the vaccination of the elderly, especially the elderly over the age of 80, make overall plans to strengthen immunization, and continuously increase the population vaccination rate. At the same time, we urge all localities to earnestly find loopholes and weak links in risk prevention and control, investigate risks in a timely manner, and make up for shortcomings and plug loopholes.