Source: Global Times - Global Network
According to the news released on the official microblog of the Propaganda Department of the Yunnan Provincial Cpc Committee on the 4th, in order to form a herd immunity barrier in Ruili City as soon as possible and effectively protect the lives and health of the masses, Yunnan Province urgently allocated a batch of vaccines to Ruili City to ensure that all suitable people were vaccinated. The Global Times reporter learned from CanSino Biology on the 4th that the company's 150,000 doses of adenovirus vector new crown vaccine have arrived in Yunnan one after another, which will help the people in the border areas of Dehong Prefecture, including Ruili, to complete vaccination as soon as possible.
CanSino's new crown vaccine has arrived in Yunnan (Courtesy of CanSino Biologics)
Since the local confirmed cases were reported at the end of last month, there were still new cases in Ruili, a small town on the border between China and Myanmar. According to the situation reported by the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission on the 4th, as of 24:00 on April 3, there were 36 confirmed cases in Yunnan (3 cases imported from abroad and 33 cases from the mainland), and 51 cases of asymptomatic infection (19 cases imported from abroad and 32 cases from the mainland). According to the news reported by Ruili City on the 3rd, the virus that caused the outbreak in Ruili is highly suspected to have been imported from Myanmar through people or objects.
After the outbreak of this round of epidemic in Ruili, the local government quickly adopted prevention and control measures such as home isolation and nucleic acid testing for all employees, and promoted emergency vaccination of new crown vaccines. According to public reports, Yunnan Province urgently allocated 159,000 doses of vaccine to Ruili City, and it is expected that all suitable people in the city will be vaccinated by April 6.
Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, posted on Weibo on the 2nd that the vaccination rapidly promoted by Ruili and the vast border areas will become the first city in China to implement emergency maximum vaccination since the emergence of the local epidemic, providing new ideas for responding to the local epidemic outbreak.
According to CanSino Biologics, the first cold chain truck full of new crown vaccines arrived at the emergency warehouse in Kunming On the evening of the 2nd, registered and quickly transferred to the Longchuan area of Dehong Prefecture adjacent to Ruili. The arrival of the new crown vaccine is a recombinant new coronavirus vaccine (type 5 adenovirus vector) jointly developed by CanSino Biology and Academician Chen Wei of the Academy of Military Sciences, which is the only one in China's four approved conditionally marketed new crown vaccines, the only one with a single-dose immunization program, after 14 days of single-dose vaccination, the overall protective efficacy of the vaccine against all symptoms is 68.83%. A domestic immunology expert told the Global Times reporter that a single dose of vaccination is a simple procedure, which can inoculate more people in the same time period, which is conducive to providing protection for as many people as possible in the shortest time and building an immune barrier. In addition, the recommended age for this COVID-19 vaccine is not capped and can be given to people over 60 years old.
Zhang Wenhong said in an interview with the media on the 3rd that when the epidemic occurred in Shijiazhuang before, many experts also put forward the opinion of emergency vaccination, but the overall vaccination conditions at that time were not mature. At present, the safety of the new crown vaccine and the ability to universally vaccinate in all aspects have reached a very good level, and Ruili has the conditions and capabilities for all vaccinations, which will also provide a very good demonstration for The prevention and control of imported epidemics in China in the future.
According to the data released by the National Health Commission on the 4th, as of the 3rd of this month, a total of 136.677 million doses of the new crown virus vaccine have been reported in various places.