Original title: 18 new cases of new coronavirus infection in Tianjin, all detected in close contacts
Tianjin held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown virus pneumonia in the middle of the night on the 8th. Gu Qing, deputy secretary-general of the Tianjin municipal government and director of the municipal health committee, introduced that after screening of key populations, as of 21:00, Tianjin is among close contacts. Another 18 cases of new coronavirus infections were detected, all of which have been transferred to designated hospitals for isolation and treatment. The infected people mainly involve the care institution where the case is located, school students and parents.
In the early morning of January 8th, Tianjin detected two cases of positive COVID-19 nucleic acid test among the personnel willing to do the inspection and the active attending personnel of the fever clinic. After comprehensive research and judgment by the city-level expert group, they were determined to be local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia (light type).
As of 21:00 on January 8, a total of 814 close contacts and 553 secondary close contacts have been determined to be traced, 767 were negative in nucleic acid tests, and 18 were positive. Other investigations and control work are still in progress. A total of 70 items and environmental samples from relevant places were investigated, and 14 were positive for nucleic acid tests, including 2 positive samples from the elevator of the patient’s home, 12 samples from the patient’s home environment, and the rest were all negative. All places involved in the epidemic shall be terminally disinfected. As of 21.00, a total of 75,680 people have been quarantined and managed in this epidemic.
Gu Qing said that after the outbreak, Tianjin gave full play to the advantages of the emergency command mechanism and quickly entered an emergency state. The main comrades in charge of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government, and the Municipal Prevention and Control Headquarters went to the front line to direct and deploy, and the urban two-level epidemic prevention and control The headquarters handles day and night, and the health, public security and other relevant departments cooperate closely to do their best to prevent and control the epidemic.
At present, Tianjin has deployed authoritative medical experts from the whole city to give full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, scientific research and judgment, “one person, one policy”, and continue to strengthen treatment measures, do everything possible to improve the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment, maximize the cure rate, and reduce the mortality rate. At the same time, strengthen the management of key parts such as pre-inspection and triage, fever clinics, outpatient and emergency departments, and inpatient wards, strictly implement hospital infection prevention and control measures and responsibilities, and strictly prevent the occurrence of epidemics in the hospital. (Reporter Zhang Daozheng)
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