The picture shows the scene of the press conference on the epidemic. Photo by Ma Zhiyuan
(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) There are 291 confirmed cases in Hohhot, and 3 postal courier employees have been diagnosed and the risk is controllable
Chinanews.com, Hohhot, March 3 (Reporter Li Aiping) The press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Hohhot was held here on the 3rd. According to the official announcement, as of 24:00 on March 2, the city has reported a total of local reports of the current round of the epidemic. There are 394 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia. Up to now, a total of 103 patients in the city have been cured and discharged, and there are 291 confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia.
Wang Dawei, deputy director of the Hohhot Center for Disease Control and Prevention, responded at a press conference that day, in response to the confirmed cases of postal express workers concerned by the outside world.
Wang Dawei introduced that a total of 3 employees in the postal and express delivery industry in Hohhot have been diagnosed, all of whom were close contacts or sub-close contacts of positive cases. They were all diagnosed during the isolation period, and the current risk is controllable. According to the flow survey analysis, none of the three confirmed practitioners were infected during the operation.
According to reports, in order to eliminate and prevent related risks, the city quarantined other employees who were in contact with the three confirmed people in their work in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention; the workplace and the facilities used by the three confirmed people were fully disinfected Eliminate and kill; check the sender and recipient information of its Lantou mail express, and a total of 5474 pieces of relevant personnel information have been checked, and no positives were found.
The official said that employees in the postal and express delivery industry in Hohhot, as a key group for nucleic acid testing, will conduct random inspections every week according to regulations before this round of epidemic, and will be tested every day from February 16 in accordance with the city’s large-scale nucleic acid testing requirements. , except for 3 people who have been diagnosed so far, the rest of the results are negative.
Wang Dawei said that at present, the epidemic in Hohhot has gone through a stage of high-level operation and is in a stage of low-level operation and decline, but the risk of social transmission cannot be ignored. (End)