The mainland has officially changed its prevention and control policy for the novel coronavirus infection from “Class B and A” to “B and B” (the control model is equivalent to dengue fever, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza, etc.), and completely “changed” and canceled the nucleic acid test and centralized quarantine at the entrance, the public is concerned about whether the Omicron XBB.1.5 variant virus strain, which is increasingly popular in foreign countries and has greater immune escape ability, will be brought to the mainland and cause large-scale infection.
Wu Zunyou (pictured), chief epidemiology expert at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that the viral strains circulating at home and abroad all belong to the Omicron family, and “the risk of immediately causing a new transmission cycle should not be too large.” Chen Cao, a researcher at the Institute of Viral Diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also pointed out at the press conference of the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism that only 16 local cases of XBB were found. from August to December last year. After some people are infected with Omicron BA.5.2 and BF.7, they will develop cross-protective antibodies against the XBB series in a short period of time. Therefore, “XBB will not cause a large-scale local epidemic at this stage.”
The mainland reported 7,072 new local confirmed cases the day before yesterday, of which Guangxi accounted for the majority with 2,046, followed by Guangdong with 1,837, Beijing and Shanghai with 303 and 8 respectively; 2 new deaths came from Guangdong and Yunnan respectively. Taiwan yesterday reported 23,080 new local confirmed cases and 36 deaths.
Originally released on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/China/Mainland people are worried about the switch to blow up the epidemic of XBB-Wu Zunyou-Immediate risk shouldn’t be big/356205?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
