(Health Times reporter Wang Zhenya) According to data from the National Health Commission, from March 16 to March 20, within 5 days, a total of 9,222 new cases of asymptomatic infection of the new crown were added. On March 19, at the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, Jiao Yahui, director of the Medical Administration and Hospital Administration Bureau of the National Health and Health Commission, introduced that at present, the infected people in the country are mainly mild and asymptomatic, accounting for more than 95%. .
Among them, according to the data released by the Shandong Provincial Health and Health Commission on March 21, from 0:00 to 24:00 on March 20, 2022, the province reported 11 new local confirmed cases, including 6 in Qingdao, 5 cases in Binzhou. There were 286 new local asymptomatic infections, including 265 in Binzhou, 9 in Weihai, 5 in Zibo, 3 in Weifang, 2 in Qingdao, 1 in Linyi, and 1 in Liaocheng. Asymptomatic infections in Shandong are 26 times that of confirmed cases, and asymptomatic infections in Binzhou are 53 times that of confirmed cases.
The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission announced on March 21: From 0-24:00 on March 20, 2022, there were 24 new confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia and 734 asymptomatic infections, and asymptomatic infections More than 30 times the number of confirmed cases.
Health Times reporters combed the data and found that from March 16th to March 20th, within 5 days, asymptomatic infections in Shanghai, Jilin, Hebei and Shandong All have exceeded 1,000 cases, with 1945 cases, 2596 cases, 1526 cases and 1085 cases respectively.
Why are there so many asymptomatic infections in this round of the epidemic?
At the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, Jiao Yahui, Director of the Medical Administration and Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health and Health Commission, introduced that we have observed that the Omicron strain is characterized by a short course of disease, rapid spread, and symptoms. Concealment, on the one hand, may be due to the virus itself, and on the other hand, the vaccination rate of our country is relatively high, so the proportion of mild cases and asymptomatic infections is quite high.
Jiang Rongmeng, vice president of Beijing Ditan Hospital, told reporters that as the pathogenicity of the mutant strains declines and the proportion of asymptomatic new local epidemics increases, these patients will be classified and treated, which will free up medical resources in designated hospitals.