This afternoon (28th), the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter and health tips during the New Year's Day.
Peng Zhibin, director of the Department of Respiratory Infectious Diseases of the Infectious Disease Management Department of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the global new crown epidemic is still prevalent, and the virus is still mutating. Recently jnThe 1 variant has risen rapidly around the world and has become the main epidemic strain, and the epidemic situation in some countries has increased significantly. At present, the domestic new crown epidemic is at a low level of epidemic, jnThe 1 variant has a relatively low proportion but is also on the rise, and it is likely to gradually develop into the dominant epidemic strain in China. jn.The 1 variant belongs to the Omicron series of variants, which is assessed by the World Health Organization to be jnThe overall public health risk of the 1 variant is low and contains XBB1.The 5-ingredient coronavirus vaccine is still against jnThe 1 variant is effective, and no evidence of increased pathogenicity has been found.
The New Year's Day and Spring Festival holidays are approaching, the Spring Festival is about to begin, and the flow of people will rise sharply, and it is expected that the new crown epidemic in China will rebound to a certain extent in winter and spring, which will bring certain pressure to the medical service system, but will not have a significant impact on economic and social operations. In the next step, we will continue to implement various prevention and control policies and measures of "Category B and B Management" to reduce the risk of epidemic transmission and maintain the overall stability of the epidemic.
CCTV news client CCTV reporter Mu Yuanyuan).