BA.5 mutant plants appear in Shanghai. What should I pay attention to when wearing a mask?Is it useful for vaccine?Look at

At the press conference held on July 10, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Municipal Health and Health Commission, introduced: Comprehensive analysis of epidemiological surveys and virus gene sequencing results, one case infected by the infection of a social face infection on the Pudong New District on July 8th The virus is Omikon BA.5.2.1 mutant strains.

Faced with the new BA.5 mutant strain, is it still useful to wear masks and vaccines? What do you need to pay attention to in daily life? Is it useful to wear a mask for BA.5 mutation?

The propagation of Omikon BA.5 mutant strains is mainly droplets. Standardizing the qualified mask is still one of the most effective prevention and control measures.

Recently, Shanghai has continued to be high -temperature, and masks are easy to be polluted by sweating. Citizen friends are requested to replace them in time. Special attention: During the detection of nucleic acid, do not take the mask freely because you are afraid of heat and boring.

However, if you wear uncomfortable dullness and shortness of breath during wearing a mask, you should immediately go to the open ventilation place to remove the mask. In addition, citizens can carry spare masks and store them in the original bag or clean storage bag to avoid squeezing and deformation. The abandoned mask is classified as other garbage treatment.

Is the vaccine still effective for the BA.5 mutant strain?

Research data at home and abroad shows that the spread of the BA.5 mutation plant is accelerated and the immune escape ability is improved. However, compared with the previously popular Omikon mutant plant BA.2, the risk of critical illness and mortality rate of disease occurred without the risk of severe illnesses and mortality rates. Discover obvious differences. The research results also show that vaccination can still effectively prevent critical illness and death after BA.5 infection.

What should I do if the symptoms of fever have a cold?

Citizens shall fulfill the obligation of "active reporting, active testing, and active consultation." Persons who return to Shanghai should take the initiative to report to the communities (villages), units, and hotels where they are located in advance, and actively test nucleic acid testing to cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control measures. If you have discomfort such as fever, cough, etc., under the premise of personal protection, please go to the hot kidney clinic in time.

Precautions for daily life

As the recent epidemic is still progressing, the general public is requested not to gather or tie up. If you go out, you must do personal protection, and actively cooperate with the preservation requirements such as temperature measurement, code testing, and code scanning. Citizen friends are requested to continue to adhere to the "three -piece epidemic prevention set" (scientifically wearing masks, maintaining social distance, paying attention to personal hygiene), keep in mind the "protection of five protection" , I should also wash my hands often, the windows should be opened as much as possible), and at the same time, the "new epidemic prevention three -piece set" -regularly detect nucleic acids, actively scan the place code, and vaccine as soon as possible.

Figure: Sun Shijia

Edit: Wu Baixin

Data: Shangguan News Shanghai released the Municipal Health Commission

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