Wu Zunyou: Based on our country's two years of prevention and control experience and our new understanding of the changes in the new crown virus, I personally believe that our country can achieve the goal of "dynamic clearing".
The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the afternoon of April 1. The responsible comrades of the National Health Commission's Disease Control Bureau and relevant experts attended the press conference to introduce the situation of strict and conscientious efforts to prevent and control the epidemic and answer questions from the media.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: Since the beginning of this year, especially since the Omicron variant was introduced to our country, our new crown epidemic has been one after another, giving everyone a feeling that it is difficult to control. I would like to ask, will there be a phenomenon that cannot be cleared in our country?
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, replied: Based on our country's two years of prevention and control experience and our new understanding of the changes in the new crown virus, I personally believe that our country can achieve the goal of "dynamic clearing" .
It should be admitted that due to the strong infectivity and fast transmission speed of the Omicron variant strain, coupled with a certain proportion of asymptomatic infections, it is more difficult to dynamically clear and the time required for dynamic clearing may be longer. However, as long as we implement the prevention and control measures strictly and quickly in every link, we can still achieve the goal of dynamic clearing.
The main challenge to achieve dynamic clearing under the new situation is to target the new features of invisibility and fast transmission displayed by the prevalence of Omicron variant strains, requiring us to (build) a more sensitive monitoring system to be able to detect earlier In the event of an epidemic, various prevention and control measures can be implemented more quickly. In these processes, everyone's cooperation is particularly needed, especially the early detection of cases, and the active cooperation of patients is particularly important for early detection in epidemic control.
Source: State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Press Conference
