Original Title: South Africa Improves Epidemic Prevention and Control Status, China-South Africa Flight Breakout Source: CCTV News
Recently, the third wave of the new crown epidemic in South Africa has been raging. South African President Ramaphosa announced on the evening of June 15 local time through South Africa’s national television station that the country has been upgraded from the second-level epidemic prevention and control status to the third-level epidemic prevention and control status. At the same time, the flight between Johannesburg, South Africa and Shenzhen, China was tested to confirm 32 positive cases of the new crown virus, and the flights between China and South Africa were officially cut off.
South Africa’s President Ramaphosa said: “The surge in the number of new infections means that we must once again tighten restrictions on the movement of people and gatherings. We need to implement more stringent epidemic prevention and control measures and take more resolute measures against those who do not comply with the regulations. Action. Due to the increase in the number of infected people, we have decided to raise the level of epidemic prevention and control in South Africa to level 3.”
Affected by the third wave of the epidemic, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in South Africa has increased from more than 2,000 to nearly 10,000 in a month. In this case, South Africa announced that the curfew will be advanced from 22:00 to 4 a.m. the next day. , And at the same time strictly control the number of indoor and outdoor gatherings.
A local medical expert in South Africa said on June 13 that a 36-year-old AIDS patient in the KwaZulu-Natal province of the country has successively produced 13 mutated spike proteins and 19 others during the 216 days of infection with the new crown virus. The genetic transformation that may change the behavior of the virus, local scientists are studying the relationship between AIDS and the mutation of the new coronavirus. (Headquarters reporter Zhou Tao)
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