Original title: 34 newly diagnosed local cases in Manzhouli, the source of the epidemic locked in overseas imports
China News Service, Manzhouli, November 30 (Reporter Zhang Wei) On the 30th, Manzhouli City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, stating that 34 new local confirmed cases in Manzhouli were added from 00:00 to 14:00 on November 30 . The epidemic was caused by a new source of overseas imports.
Song Jixiang, deputy mayor of Manzhouli City Government, introduced that from 00:00 to 14:00 on November 30, 34 new cases were confirmed in Manzhouli City. So far, a total of 73 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia have been reported.
“Confirmed cases 40 to 73 were all positive in the large-scale nucleic acid test and were diagnosed as confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia after a joint consultation by the expert group.” Song Jixiang said.
All confirmed cases have been transferred to the Manzhouli Port Medical Treatment Hospital for isolation and treatment. Circulation work is ongoing. As of 12:00 on November 30, a total of 2,740 close contacts and 1,410 sub-close contacts have been investigated.
According to Wang Tao, Deputy Mayor of Manzhouli City Government and Director of the Public Security Bureau, as of 14:00 on November 30, 28,475 people living in Manzhouli had been found. Now there are 24,858 people in other urban areas of Hulunbuir and 3,617 people who have left Hulunbuir. The relevant information is available. Push the territories; among them, 1 confirmed case went to Tongliao City, 1 confirmed case in Nehe City, Heilongjiang, and 2 confirmed cases in New Barhu Right Banner, Hulunbuir City, and related close and sub-closed personnel have been controlled.
Wang Tao said that the whole genome sequence of the virus in the first three cases involved in this epidemic has low homology with the previous domestic epidemic, suggesting that this epidemic was caused by a new overseas import source.
Wang Tao said that the three cases are all likely to be exposed to imported goods. After a large number of visits, investigations, research and judgment, and comprehensive consideration of national disease control virus testing and gene sequencing, a preliminary analysis of this Manzhouli epidemic is that foreign goods carry the virus, and the spread of the epidemic has been caused by “person-to-person and material-to-person” methods. (over)
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