What is the trend of the spread of the epidemic?

What is the trend of the spread of the epidemic? How to get a booster vaccine? The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism has responded

What is the trend of the spread of the epidemic? How to get a booster vaccine? The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism responded to the arrival of the epidemic situation.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 24th, title: What is the trend of the spread of the epidemic at multiple points? How to get a booster vaccine? The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism has responded

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Xinhua News Agency reporters Dong Ruifeng and Xu Penghang

Recently, there have been many local outbreaks in the country, and the risk of spread is still increasing
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How is the handling of the new round of epidemics? How to get a booster vaccine? What are the precautions for epidemic prevention and control in autumn and winter? The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism press conference on the 24th gave a concentrated response to public concerns

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The epidemic spread to 11 provinces and the source points to overseas imports

The epidemic spread to 11 provinces and the source points to overseas imports

Since October 17, there have been many local outbreaks in the country, showing a rapid development trend, which has spread to 11 provinces within a week
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“Most of the infected people have cross-regional travel activities, and the risk of further spread of the epidemic is still increasing
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” Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission, said that areas where an epidemic has occurred must quickly enter a state of emergency; areas where an epidemic has not occurred must be strengthened Monitoring and early warning

In response to the source of the epidemic, Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the CDC of the National Health Commission, said that the virus in this epidemic was a delta mutant, and the source of the epidemic is still being traced
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The results of the existing flow reconciliation and virus sequencing suggest that this epidemic was caused by a new overseas source

Wu Liangyou introduced that the current epidemic situation is generally in a rapid development stage, and the number of non-tourism cases has begun to increase
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It is expected that as the investigation and screening of risk groups continues, the number of cases detected in the next few days will continue to increase, and the scope of the epidemic may further expand

In addition, the monitoring results show that the national influenza activity level since March this year is higher than the level of the same period last year, especially since September, the influenza activity level of some provinces in southern China has shown a clear upward trend
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Experts have judged that there may be a superimposed risk of new coronary pneumonia and influenza this winter and next spring

Seize the critical period of epidemic management and decisively take control measures

Seize the critical period of epidemic management and decisively take control measures

After the outbreak, the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Team immediately dispatched working groups to Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia and other places to guide and support local work
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Wu Liangyou introduced that these tasks include rapid activation of the emergency command system, community prevention and control, strict isolation and epidemic prevention management, nucleic acid testing to expand prevention, scientific and accurate traceability of flow control, and patient treatment
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Zhou Min, deputy director of the Emergency Office of the Ministry of Transport, said that after the outbreak of this round of the epidemic, the Ministry of Transport immediately guided the transportation departments of the provinces involved in the epidemic to seize the critical period of epidemic handling, and decisively adopted passenger transportation control measures, and at the same time, fully prepared for emergency response.
Material transportation guarantee work
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According to Liu Kezhi, Director of the Market Management Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has issued notices in recent days, requesting to keep a close eye on key links, to implement various measures for epidemic prevention and control, and to revise and improve the emergency response plan for epidemic prevention and control.
, strictly from the tight grasp of cultural tours and parades industry epidemic prevention and control work
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Li Zhengliang, deputy director of the Department of Health and Quarantine of the General Administration of Customs, said that the General Administration of Customs did not relax the sanitation and quarantine of entry personnel, strictly performed the quarantine of high-risk entry goods, implemented top-level safety protection for staff, and continued to strengthen port epidemic prevention and control.
Measures such as capacity to resolutely curb the import of the epidemic through ports
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Vaccine booster has started to give priority to key groups

Vaccine booster has started to give priority to key groups

Who needs a booster shot of the vaccine? Will constant vaccination against the new coronavirus become the norm?

"According to the results of expert research and demonstration and the needs of epidemic prevention and control, the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism recently launched the new crown virus vaccine strengthened immunization work
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" Wu Liangyou said that the completion of Sinopharm Zhongsheng Beijing Company, Beijing Kexing Company, and Sinopharm Zhongsheng Wuhan The company's inactivated vaccine and Tianjin Cansino company's adenovirus vector vaccine are vaccinated for people aged 18 and above who have been 6 months old, and can be boosted with one dose

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Wu Liangyou introduced that enhanced immunization is currently given priority to people at high risk of infection and key positions that guarantee the basic operation of society
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At the same time, all localities should take overall consideration of the need for epidemic prevention and control at ports, borders, and major events, and factors such as high-risk groups of people aged 60 and above who are at high risk of severe illness after infection, and expand the scope of the population for enhanced immunization

Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program, said that strengthening immunization can quickly make antibody levels rebound
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What is currently being carried out is to strengthen the immunization of key populations.
Whether the scope will be expanded in the future requires more research data to make a comprehensive judgment
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"To determine the best procedure for vaccination, continuous research is needed, but continuous strengthening of immunization is not our final choice
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" Wang Huaqing said, hoping to better achieve a solid population protection effect in the future
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Focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic