“There has been a new crown epidemic in many places in China recently. Here we emphasize that vaccination is still the key means of epidemic prevention and control. I hereby appeal to everyone, please meet the requirements to complete the new crown virus as soon as possible. Vaccination, strengthen immunization. Please take the initiative to vaccinate the elderly over 60 years old, especially those over 80 years old who have no contraindications.” Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commission’s Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention Appeal at a press conference.
Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commission’s CDC
Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the immunization program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has continued for more than two years, and the virus is also undergoing some continuous changes. High risk of death persists. Relevant statistics of the World Health Organization found that during the epidemic of the Omicron strain, the peak of the global incidence in one week was close to 24 million, which was 4 times higher than the previous peak of other mutant strains, which shows that the infectiousness is very high. strong. Then, during the continuous epidemic of Omicron, surveillance studies have also found that the risk of severe illness and death in the elderly is still very high. According to a recent data released by the Centre for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health, the mortality rate of the fifth wave of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic is temporarily 0.03%, and the mortality rate of unvaccinated patients is 0.54%, which is 18 times that of vaccinated patients.
Wang Huaqing, Chief Expert of Immunization Program of China CDC
“For the elderly who have not been vaccinated or have not received booster shots. If they meet the conditions in accordance with relevant regulations, they must complete the whole course of immunization as soon as possible and complete the booster shot.” Wang Huaqing appealed.
Wu Liangyou introduced that my country has recently carried out a number of work deployments focusing on the elderly over 60 years old and strengthening immunization. Multiple booster vaccination options. As of February 25, a total of 3,114,622,000 doses of the new coronavirus vaccine have been reported nationwide, and the total number of vaccinations has reached 1,269,302,000, 1,234,540,000 people have been fully vaccinated, and 554,728,000 people have been boosted. Among them, the number of people over 60 years old who were vaccinated against the new coronavirus reached 219.911 million, and 211.066 million people were vaccinated in the whole process.
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