Recently, in this round of the epidemic, there are more asymptomatic infected people and mild patients in many places, and many people in some places have mild symptoms of the Aumechjong variant as "influenza".
On March 18, the State Council Information Office held a press conference, and Wang Hesheng, deputy director of the National Health Commission and director of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that our epidemic has indeed shown the characteristics of many points, wide coverage and frequent occurrence, and the main reasons are four aspects.
First, since December 2021, the global new crown pneumonia has entered the fourth wave of epidemic peaks, and now it has been 11 consecutive weeks, and the number of reported cases per week has exceeded 10 million, which is still at a high level of epidemic. Especially since the beginning of this year, the epidemic situation in our neighboring countries and regions has risen rapidly, and the "pressure difference" with the epidemic level in the mainland has been increasing. From January to February this year, the number of infected people imported every day was 91 cases per day, much higher than the 22 cases in 2020 and 32 cases in 2021. Since March this year, the average number of imported infected people has exceeded 200 per day, and the highest number of cases in a single day has exceeded 300. It can be said that the pressure of the recent epidemic import has increased significantly.
Second, the recent major epidemic of the Global Omikejong variant, especially the BA.2 sub-branch, is stronger than the previous virus strains of the spread and occultity, early detection is indeed more difficult, resulting in the discovery of the epidemic often has a certain range, it can be said that the epidemic handling, control is also more difficult.
Third, the end of February this year coincided with the end of the spring festival holiday on the mainland, the opening of the spring semester of students, the resumption of work of enterprise workers, etc., which brought about a large-scale flow of personnel, coupled with the increase in conference training, marriage and funeral and other gathering activities of various personnel, which can be said to have become the "communicator" and "amplifier" of the epidemic, resulting in the rapid spread of the epidemic, and even cross-regional transmission.
Fourth, some places believe that the symptoms of the Aomi Kerong variant strain are mild, influenza is flu, the thinking is loose and paralyzed, there is a mentality of "resting the feet and slowing down", the preparation in all aspects is insufficient, and the requirements for normalized prevention and control and emergency handling have been relaxed.
