The mainland’s new crown epidemic has dropped sharply from a high level. The China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the national new crown infection situation on the 6th of this month. The number of positive nucleic acid tests dropped to 9,000, and the number of positive antigen tests rebounded from 85,000 on the 4th of this month. The number of hospital visits fell to 137,000; hospitalizations fell to 60,000, with 2,000 critically ill patients and 102 hospital deaths. The joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference yesterday. Mi Feng, spokesman of the National Health and Medical Commission, said that the national epidemic situation is becoming more and more stable, and the overall positive trend continues to consolidate.
At the press conference, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that after the nationwide epidemic of new crown infections, the national population has relatively high immune protection, and the possibility of a new wave of epidemics in recent months is relatively small, ” The possibility of a large-scale epidemic similar to this one will appear in the future is also relatively small.” As China optimizes prevention and control strategies and measures, the new crown epidemic may occur intermittently in some areas, some groups of people, and for a period of time in the future, and there will be short-term nationwide outbreaks. A concentrated large-scale epidemic is less likely.
Wu Zunyou also said that since the three years since the epidemic, the virus has continued to mutate, showing a trend of increased infectivity, enhanced immune escape ability, and weakened pathogenicity, and the threat to human life is weakening. The fight against the new crown virus, especially the widespread application of the new crown vaccine, judging from the current trend, the possibility of a more contagious mutant virus strain in the future is very small, and the pathogenicity will increase, or the virus will “return to its ancestors” to Delta or even The possibility of the original virus strain is also very small.
CDC: No stronger mutant virus found
On the other hand, Chen Cao, a researcher at the Institute of Viral Diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that since the beginning of this year, 39 evolutionary branches of the new coronavirus variants have been monitored from people entering the country at ports, all of which belong to Omicron, and BA.5.2 and BF.7 and their “So far, no new mutant strains with significantly increased transmissibility, pathogenicity, and immune escape capabilities have been monitored.”
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