(Fight against new coronary pneumonia) Guangzhou outbreak prevention situation is severe and shows multi-point, multi-source and multi-chain distribution
China News Agency, Guangzhou, October 25 (Wang Hua Huang Shuyue) The Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government Information Bureau held a news conference on epidemic prevention and control on the 25th to report that the city’s epidemic prevention situation is extremely serious and that prevention and control are extremely difficult. There are more sources, more chains and local aggregations, and there are more transmission chains of mutant strains of Omicron BA.5.2 from abroad and from outside the province.
Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission said the city has responded to 55 local outbreaks since National Day. Among them, the clustered outbreaks and 33 sporadic outbreaks in Nansha District shipyards have been closed, the Huadu District outbreak is in the final stage, 2 clustered outbreaks in Tianhe District have been effectively controlled, and the outbreak risk in the Baiyun district is generally controllable. Currently, the epidemic situation in the Haizhu district is at a critical stage. Tianhe, Yuexiu and other districts have subsequently encountered many positive social cases. The epidemic prevention and control situation in the city is serious and complicated.
According to the report, Baiyun District has reported a total of 15 local outbreaks since October 16, affecting key locations such as urban villages, vocational high schools, construction sites and logistics. There is hidden transmission in the community and the source of some clustered outbreaks and scattered cases are still under investigation and individual chains have involved the outbreak in Huadu District.
On October 23, Haizhu District found a cluster of outbreaks caused by exposure to the infection in restaurants among those actively seeking medical attention at a fever clinic and transmission to the community had occurred. Epidemiological investigation and gene sequencing showed that the outbreak in this district was unrelated to the recent outbreaks in Huadu and Baiyun districts; the outbreak developed rapidly and the risk of transmission in the community was high.
At 8:00 am on the 25th, a total of 34 local infections were reported in this round of the outbreak in Haizhu District.At present, they are all admitted to the Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, and there are no serious or critical cases. The district outlined the areas at risk, implemented hierarchical control measures, shielded close contacts and substrates and controlled the places involved in the epidemic. Since 23, Haizhu District has carried out three rounds of 5.51 million person times nucleic acid screening.
The head of the Guangzhou Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the epidemiological investigation showed that the outbreak in Haizhu district discovered on October 23 began with the introduction of the source of infection after 18 and it is widespread to some extent in urban villages when it was discovered. It is also suggested that citizens who have a history of life and activity in Haizhu District since 18 should take the initiative to report to the community, take the initiative to carry out health monitoring at home, take the initiative to carry out three inspections for three days, and do not collect or eat meals.
Guangzhou has reportedly sent 45,000 medical personnel and 51.14 million nucleic acid samples in this round of the outbreak. (End)
