Beijing: The local clustering epidemic is the overall control of the initial judgment that causes the input case

China News Service, Beijing, July 6th (Xu Jing) Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Disease Prevention and Control Center and a member of the National New Coronatte Virus Pneumonia Expert Group, informed the press conference of the epidemic prevention and control work on the 6th. By 15:00 on the 6th, a total of 12 new coronary pneumonia virus infections were reported in Beijing. Involved in 4 districts, among them, 8 cases of Yanqing District, 2 cases of Shunyi District, and 1 case of Tongzhou District and Changping District.

She introduced that the laboratory of Beijing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carried out gene sequencing the specimen 1 to 3 infected on July 5th. The results showed that the virus belonged to the BA.5.2 branch of the Omikon mutant strain. The results of gene sequences showed that the three infected people were low as the city's existing and previous local cases, and the overseas input case sequence sequences were low in the city, which was a different transmission chain. Comprehensive epidemiological survey and gene sequencing results, initially considered the local clustering epidemic caused by this epidemic.

Pang Xinghuo said that as of now, except for the infected persons reported yesterday as a social screening personnel, the remaining infected people are close contact, all of which are isolated observers, the transmission of the chain is clear, the source is clear, and the development trend of the existing epidemic conditions is based on the existing epidemic situation. It is initially believed that this epidemic is generally controllable.

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