Chongqing — The 64th press conference of COVID-19’s prevention and control was held on April 11, 2020. Xia Pei, the Deputy Secretary of Chongqing Municipal Health Commission and Zhao Han, Deputy Chief Physician of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Institute reported the epidemic situation in Chongqing.
The 64th press conference of COVID-19’s prevention and control was held on April 11, 2020.
The nucleic acid test was carried out for all the people who came to Chongqing from Hubei Province.
Zhao Han introduced that at present, the spread of the local epidemic in China has been basically controlled. Chongqing had no new local cases for 46 consecutive days, and the epidemic situation is getting better in Chongqing.
"In the early stage, we conducted nucleic acid testing on all the people who came to Chongqing and returned to Chongqing from Hubei Province." Zhao Han said. On April 8, After Wuhan lifted the traffic control, the flow of people increased significantly, and more people came to Chongqing. In the past three days, 3 cases of asymptomatic infections were found. They were sent to the fixed-point hospital for isolated observation in time, and their close contacts were implemented strict isolation tracking management.
"Generally, the current epidemic control measures in Chongqing are effective, but still face potential risks." Zhao Han said, "preventing imported cases and outbreak rebound is still the focus of the city's epidemic prevention and control, we hope that our citizens work together as always to prevent and control the epidemic.”
She mentioned people who prepare to come to Chongqing from Wuhan or Hubei need to report personal information at first. At the same time, community control cannot be relaxed. Residents' communities and relevant units should timely grasp the information of people from Wuhan and Hubei province to find asymptomatic infected people.
In addition, the hotel, Airbnb, employment and other social units should pay close attention to people came from Wuhan and Hubei and report the relevant personnel information to the local government and the relevant departments for the first time.
Zhao Han also stressed that the zero cases is not equal to zero risk. At present, citizens should remain good health habits, such as keep wearing a mask, wash hands often and less gather.
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