Huludao epidemic: 65 people infected by one patient’s chain of transmission

From 0:00 to 24:00 on February 23, Huludao City, Liaoning Province added 8 new confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia. From February 8 to 23, Huludao City reported a total of 167 local confirmed cases. Today (February 24), Huludao City held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control. Zhou Jiaoyang, deputy director of the Huludao Municipal Health and Health Commission, released the relevant epidemic prevention and control situation at the press conference: after the virus gene sequencing of the confirmed case samples , The virus strain typing of this outbreak in Huludao City belongs to the delta variant. Through the epidemiological investigation and clinical symptom analysis of confirmed cases in Huludao City, the epidemic situation has the following characteristics:

First, the viral load is high. In general, the lower the detected CT value, the higher the viral load. The CT value of some confirmed cases in Huludao City is lower than 20, and the lowest is 6.5.

Second, it is highly disseminated. The transmission chain of a single patient caused 65 infections.

The third is the long incubation period.

These characteristics were rarely seen in the previous COVID-19 outbreaks in Liaoning Province, which brought great challenges to the prevention and control of the epidemic in Huludao. The source of the epidemic was identified within 36 hours and the control area was quickly delineated.

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