As of November 5, the current round of the epidemic has affected 20 provinces, superimposed on the winter and spring seasonal factors, and the prevention and control situation is severe and complex. But China's COVID-19 prevention and control strategy will not change.
On November 6, at the press conference of the State Council's joint prevention and control, Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health and Health Commission, said that it is necessary to adhere to the general strategy of "external prevention of import and internal prevention and rebound" without wavering, achieve scientific and accurate prevention and control, find and extinguish together, and resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic.
Since 17 October, outbreaks caused by multiple unrelated sources of foreign imports have spread further. However, according to the normalization of prevention and control strategies, the epidemic has gradually converged.
Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the Disease Control Bureau of the National Health Commission, introduced at the meeting that this wave of epidemic has affected 44 cities, with a total of 918 cases of infection reported. However, since the outbreak of the epidemic, all localities have done a lot of solid and meticulous work in prevention and control quickly, shouldering their responsibilities. At present, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces have had no new cases for more than 12 consecutive days, and the epidemic situation has been rapidly and effectively controlled in a relatively short period of time.
The sporadic cases in Zhejiang and Jiangsu in recent days have shown no signs of community transmission. The prevention and control effects of Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Guizhou, Shandong and other provinces and regions are gradually emerging, and community transmission has been basically controlled. The low level of fluctuations in the epidemic in Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Yunnan Dehong and other places does not exclude the risk of community recurrence, but the risk of spillover is low. The epidemic situation in Heilongjiang, Hebei, Henan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Liaoning dalian and other places is still developing, and it is necessary to pay close attention to the trend of the epidemic.
In general, the epidemic has the characteristics of many transmission chains, fast transmission speed and wide transmission range, and the prevention and control situation of "external prevention of import and internal prevention and rebound" is still severe and complex.
For the future prevention and control policy of the new crown epidemic, Wu Liangyou stressed that according to the results of the traceability of the source, since the Wuhan epidemic, more than 30 local clusters of epidemics have occurred in China, all of which are caused by overseas imports. Practice has proved that the overall prevention and control strategy of our country's "external prevention and import, internal prevention and rebound" and a series of prevention and control policies and measures are in line with the national conditions and the scientific law of epidemic prevention and control, and well coordinate the epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. At present, the global epidemic situation, especially in China's neighboring countries, has repeated twists and turns, and the epidemic prevention and control situation this winter and next spring is complex and severe, we will continue to adhere to strict epidemic prevention and control measures, build a solid barrier of "external prevention of import, internal prevention and rebound", and consolidate the hard-won prevention and control results.
In order to better respond to the NEW CROWN epidemic, China has not only launched the new crown vaccine to strengthen the vaccination work, but also carried out the vaccination of children aged 3-11 years.
According to Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the immunization program of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are several considerations for children vaccinating them against COVID-19: First, the infection rate of children is not low. In the past, child infection rates were relatively low, but with the continued spread of global epidemics, especially in some countries, child infection rates are rising. Second, in the past, children's illness was considered relatively mild, but now it seems that with the continuous transmission, the infection rate in children has risen, and severe or fatal cases in children have occurred from time to time. Foreign studies have found that the current hospitalization rate of children is more than 10 times higher than that of the early part of this year. Third, it is very difficult for children to manage as a source of infection after contracting the virus. Children have close contact in kindergartens, nurseries or schools and other institutions, and if there are cases, clusters can also occur. Fourth, herd immunity is expected through vaccination. To achieve herd immunity, children are also part of the population that needs immunity for diseases that are susceptible to all populations.