Many places have appeared in Omicron! WHO: "Especially dangerous" for unvaccinated people

On January 14, the press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Zhuhai city reported that there were 7 positive cases of new coronary pneumonia nucleic acid reported in Zhuhai on the same day, and the initial screening of genetic sequencing was judged to be Omicrovirus virus.

The epidemic has involved Zhuhai, Tianjin, Henan and other places in Zhuhai, Guangdong, and Anyang, Henan.

WHO: Omi kerong 'particularly dangerous' for unvaccinated people

The World Health Organization warned on January 12 that the new coronavirus variant, The Semikron, remains dangerous, especially for those who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

According to Reuters, as of the week of the 9th, there were 15 million new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in the world, an increase of 55% over the previous week, setting a record for the highest number of new confirmed cases in a single week since the outbreak of the epidemic.

"The significant increase in infections was caused by Themi kerong, which quickly replaced Delta (the strain)", WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference, "although the symptoms caused by Themi kerong are not as severe as those of Delta, it remains a dangerous virus, especially for those who are not vaccinated." ”

Tedros believes that there are still many people around the world who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, so they cannot allow the Omilon strain to spread. "More transmission means more hospitalizations, deaths, shutdowns... This increases the likelihood of another variant, which may be more contagious and deadly than Omikeron. ”

Tedros said the global average of about 50,000 COVID-19 deaths per week is now around 50,000, and the "vast majority" of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals are not vaccinated. He acknowledged that the COVID-19 vaccine could not completely prevent infection, but stressed that the vaccine is still very effective in preventing severe illness and death.

According to who-set targets, the proportion of vaccinators in all countries and regions of the world should reach 40% of the population by the end of 2021 and 70% by mid-2022. However, there are still 90 countries and territories that account for less than 40% of the population, and in Africa, more than 85% of the population has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Tedros called on pregnant women to be vaccinated against COVID-19. He said pregnant women are not at high risk of infection, but are at greater risk of developing severe illness once the infection develops.

Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, said it was not yet possible to say that Omikron was "a virus that can be gladly accepted".

Maria VanKelkhof, WHO's technical chief for COVID-19, said the coronavirus was in the process of evolving into a endemic epidemic and "has not yet reached that point".

What are the characteristics of the Omicron transmission?

"The Omikejunn variant spreads very quickly, and it is possible that it will spread in 2 to 3 days, 3 to 4 days." Gu Qing, deputy secretary-general of the Tianjin Municipal Government and director of the Municipal Health Commission, said that the purpose of nucleic acid testing for all employees is to identify the potential risks of virus transmission.

Zhang Boli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the Aomi Kerong mutation strain has 32 spike protein mutation sites, and many of its mutations are the key objects of research in the fields of new coronavirus transmission, infectivity and immune escape ability. Currently, the Omikeron variant is rated very high in the overall risk assessment worldwide and has been widely disseminated around the world.

Zhang Boli said that Omilon is not terrible, but its characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine are indeed different, the previous new coronavirus is called "wet poison epidemic", which is a kind of "wet evil", and wet poison contains lungs as its core feature. However, Omi Kerong is an external wind chill, wind bundle lung guard, "wind evil" characteristics are very obvious, the patient headache, fever, sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, less phlegm, phlegm is also white sputum.

Sun Yamin, a professor at the Institute of Public Health and Health of Nankai University, said that from foreign information, the Aomi Kerong variant has the characteristics of strong infectivity, short incubation period, and mild symptoms. "It took only about 3 weeks for Opmecreon to replace Delta as the world's leading endemic strain, reflecting the fact that Opmi-Keron is very contagious."

In response to Omicron, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine is a sharp weapon

Zhang Wenhong, director of the National Infectious Disease Medical Center and director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, expressed relevant views when attending the "National Forum on the Construction of Traditional Chinese Medicine Epidemic Prevention and Emergency Medical Rescue Medical Team" on the 13th, and the number of cases spreading in the world by Aomi Kerong is beyond everyone's imagination, and it is currently at an important juncture in the global fight against the epidemic. On the 13th, the TCM epidemic prevention and emergency medical rescue medical team was established, and Zhang Wenhong believes that in the future, in the treatment of infectious diseases, the synergy of integrated Chinese and Western medicine will be of great significance for us to finally win the challenge of emergency response to various new crown infectious diseases, including Aomi Kerong.

Source: Synthesized from CCTV News, The Paper, Xinhua News Agency