The current infected people in Anhui are still mainly young and middle-aged people, and most of them are spread by collective units
The reporter learned from the 73rd Anhui Province New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference on the 21st that the current infected people in the province are still mainly young and middle-aged, and most of them are spread by collective units. Before the Spring Festival, the epidemic will spread from urban to rural areas.
Liu Zhirong, director of the Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that since the optimization of epidemic prevention measures, Anhui Province has faced the new situation and the new tasks of epidemic prevention and control, timely adapting its work objective, and organized a special class to dynamically monitor the province’s readiness to check all nucleic acid tests and residents’ antigens Self-test, fever clinic visits and test results, relying on sentinel hospitals and sentinel communities to carry out new coronavirus infection monitoring of residents, perform whole genome sequencing to monitor the mutation of epidemic strains, continue to strengthen epidemic analysis and judgment, and continuously optimize prevention and control and provide a reference for the appropriate provision of medical supply services.
According to monitoring data, the infection rate of the new coronavirus among residents of Anhui Province has gradually increased recently, the positive rate of nucleic acid test and antigen test is increasing, the number of visits is also increasing daily to fever clinics in various places, and the spread of the epidemic is accelerating. At present, the infected population in this province is still dominated by young and middle-aged people, and most of them are transmitted by collective units; vulnerable groups such as those under 3 and over 60 represent around 10%. The proportion of “old and young” will gradually increase.
The virus sequencing results show that the current epidemic virus strains in Anhui Province are mainly Omicron BA.5.2 and BF.7, and the two types of mutant strains are intertwined and prevalent. Strains such as XBB and BQ were not found. 1 again.
According to the calculation results of the new crown virus transmission law and related models, the epidemic situation in Anhui province will continue to accelerate for a period of time in the future. The province is expected to usher in the first wave of epidemic peaks in order to this month or early next month, mainly in urban areas. With the population flow before the Spring Festival, the epidemic will spread from urban to rural areas and may usher in a second wave of surges. (End) (Reporter Wu Lan)
