China Youth Daily, Beijing, December 28 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Liu Changrong) The reporter learned from the regular policy briefing held this afternoon that the average reporting time of China's infectious disease network direct reporting system has been shortened from 5 days to 4 hours, and the national level has established a technical system for rapid identification of 300 pathogens within 72 hours, and 100% of provincial and 90% municipal CDCs have nucleic acid testing and virus isolation capabilities. The national health emergency response team has covered all provinces, and the vaccination rate of the immunization program has remained above 90%.
The scene of the press conference. Photo by Liu Changrong, reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network.
Wang Hesheng, deputy director of the National Health Commission and director of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the development of disease control has reached a new level by improving the multi-departmental coordination mechanism, improving the ability of disease prevention and control, and implementing comprehensive prevention and control measures for infectious diseases.
* and local governments * continue to improve the stable investment mechanism for disease control work. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the National Development and Reform Commission has actively optimized the investment structure within the budget, and allocated a total of 13.1 billion yuan to support the construction of the disease control system at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels. In 2023, the government will allocate 176 funds for disease control projects through transfer payments8.7 billion yuan for the prevention and control of major infectious diseases and endemic diseases.
Wang Hesheng said that China's prevention and control of infectious diseases has achieved remarkable results, and the public health protection network has been further strengthened. In the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, decisive victories have been achieved in the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic, and the epidemics of infectious diseases such as human avian influenza, plague and Middle East respiratory syndrome have been effectively handled, and there has been no major epidemic after the major natural disasters. In terms of the prevention and control of major infectious diseases, the rapid rise of the AIDS epidemic in key areas has been effectively contained, and the overall epidemic level has been kept at a low levelThe incidence of tuberculosis decreased from 65.1 million in 2015 to 52.1 million in 2022, and the mortality rate remained low;All schistosomiasis-endemic counties met transmission control criteria. A nationwide environmental health monitoring system has been established, and the level of prevention and control of endemic diseases has been continuously consolidated and improved. Certified by the World Health Organization for malaria elimination. The incidence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases such as measles, JE and encephalitis has fallen to an all-time low.
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