The Lantern Festival has passed, and before the Lunar New Year, it was expected that the wave of foreigners returning to their hometowns would lead to a new wave of infections, but it did not appear. Chatting with friends from the mainland, everyone was very nervous before Chinese New Year Would you like to go back to your hometown? It would be bad if the elderly parents get infected when they go back. After the long Spring Festival holiday, none of the relatives and friends who returned home were infected. Friends who didn’t go back to their hometown regretted it, they didn’t go back for 3 years and this time they lost it again. To see if the epidemic on the mainland has passed, we mainly look at three types of information:
1. Number of visits to fever clinics. The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism stated in a press conference on January 30 that the national epidemic situation has reached a low epidemic level, and that the epidemic situation in different places has gradually declined. The hospital peak was on January 5 this year, the deaths peaked on January 4, and then it suddenly dropped. Hundreds of millions of people traveled during the Spring Festival travel season After the family reunion, not only did the epidemic end, but the number of patients in fever clinics continued to fall.
2. Proportion of cases confirmed by nucleic acid testing. The National Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a data analysis on February 1. Since the mainland relaxed the epidemic prevention measures on December 8 last year, the positive rate of nucleic acid tests detected reached a peak on December 25 last year, reaching 29.2%, and then falling sharply By this year It dropped to 2.5% on January 30; the peak positive rate of people self-testing at home was 21.3% on December 22, and fell to 2.2% on January 30. It should be noted that this is not the positive rate of the entire population, because people without symptoms will not be tested.
3. There is no new variant virus in the mainland. Jin Chuanchun, an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, National Taiwan University, pointed out that from December 9 last year to January 23 this year, virus detection revealed that all the viruses circulating on the mainland were variants Omicron, with a total of 24 evolutionary branch series, but there were more variations in the United States. , mainly because many Americans don’t wear masks, so there is more virus diversity. Now in mainland China, BA.5.2 is the most popular, accounting for 70.2%, followed by BF.7, accounting for 28.3%.
The United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Japan and South Korea also require 48-hour nucleic acid testing for travelers coming in from China. Indeed, no new variants of the virus have been found in China, and the number of Omicron Variants that are common is less than the United States. If testing is necessary, the United States should be required to get nucleic acid tests. According to comprehensive information, the peak of the epidemic in mainland China was between December 23 and 25 last year, and it is now rapidly ending.
Even Taiwanese experts confirmed the mainland’s success in fighting the epidemic. Su Yiren, the former director of Taiwan’s CDC, commented in the “United Daily News”, saying that the epidemic crisis on the mainland has been resolved, and everyone is worried about whether there will be a second wave of epidemics in rural areas after the Spring Festival, but it hasn’t happened. Compared to last year’s global epidemic and the serious damage caused in European and American countries, the scale of the mainland is relatively small. As China’s 1.4 billion population relaxes control and successfully fights the epidemic, the century-old new crown epidemic will end. The world is moving fast on the road to normalcy.
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