According to the National Health Commission, at 0-24:00 on January 8, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 73 new imported confirmed cases, and Shanghai reported 30 cases in a single day. According to the statistics of Health Times, from January 1 to 8, 2022, a total of 489 new cases of confirmed cases imported from abroad were reported nationwide, involving more than ten provinces and cities across the country, including Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Tianjin and Guangxi.
"China's foreign anti-import pressure has further increased", at the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held on January 8, Mi Feng, spokesman of the National Health Commission and deputy director of the Department of Publicity, introduced that as of now, the cumulative confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in the world have exceeded 300 million, and the new confirmed cases in the past week have approached 1.9 million, more than twice the peak of the last wave of the epidemic.
Pudong Airport, according to the "Shanghai Airport" WeChat public account
According to the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission on the 9th, of the newly reported 30 new confirmed cases of imported new coronary pneumonia from abroad, 9 people took the same flight and arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport from the United States on January 6, 2022, and were centralized for isolation and observation after entering the customs, during which symptoms appeared and were later diagnosed as confirmed cases.
In order to reduce the risk of importing the new crown pneumonia virus through flights, the Civil Aviation Administration issued circuit breaker instructions to 22 Chinese and foreign flights on January 4 and January 7. Flights involve the United States, Turkey, Poland, South Korea, Italy and other countries.
According to the civil aviation administration reported on the 4th, the flight with the largest number of confirmed cases recently was Air Canada flight AC025 (Vancouver to Shanghai) that entered on December 29, and 17 cases of new crown pneumonia passengers were confirmed. The flight has been suspended twice (for arrivals on Saturdays) since 10 January and 4 times (for arrivals on Wednesdays) since 17 January.
Mi Feng stressed that in response, it is necessary to continue to adhere to the general strategy of "external prevention of imports and internal prevention of rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic clearance", to strictly prevent the import of overseas epidemics, and to re-investigate and re-strengthen the whole process and each link of closed-loop management.
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