New coronavirus infections will be implemented in the "B class B management" does not mean the withdrawal of prevention and control, but to strengthen services and protection

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The National Health Commission issued an announcement on the 26th, renaming the new coronavirus pneumonia to new coronavirus infection. The joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council issued a plan on the same day, specifying that from January 8 next year, the new coronavirus infection will be adjusted from “category B A control” to “category B B control”. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible solution to the problem.

The focus is shifting from “infection prevention” to “health protection and serious illness prevention”.

The State Health and Welfare Commission, the relevant person in charge of the introduction, in the past three years, we have withstood the impact of five waves of global epidemics, successfully avoiding the more pathogenic original strains, Delta mutant strains of widespread epidemic, greatly reducing serious illness and death, but also for the development and application of vaccine drugs and medical resources to win valuable time to prepare. At present, China has entered a new stage in the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic, with the focus shifting from “prevention of infection” to “health protection and prevention of serious illness”.

The spokesman for the National Health and Wellness Commission, Mr. Mi Feng, said: “The implementation of the B class B management, no longer implement isolation measures for people infected with the new coronavirus, no longer determine the close contacts; no longer delineate the high and low risk areas; the implementation of graded classification of treatment for people infected with the new coronavirus and adjust the medical security policy at the appropriate time.

Nucleic acid testing “willing to test all” no longer carry out full screening

According to the “program”, in the nucleic acid testing, community residents according to the need to “test as much as possible”, no longer carry out full nucleic acid screening. Antigen and nucleic acid testing strategies will be adopted for different groups to detect infected persons in the high-risk group of serious illnesses. During an epidemic, nucleic acid testing should be based on “single-collection, single-test”.

Resume outbound travel for Chinese citizens in an orderly manner

In terms of entry and exit, optimize the management of Chinese and foreign personnel, abolish nucleic acid testing and centralized quarantine after entry, further optimize the arrangements for foreigners to come to China for resumption of work and production, business, study, family visits and reunion, and provide corresponding visa convenience. Gradually resume the entry and exit of passengers at water and land ports, and orderly resume outbound tourism for Chinese citizens.

Does not mean prevention and control withdrawal but to strengthen services and protection

In the December 27 conference, the person in charge also said that the adjustment of the new coronavirus infection to “category B B control” in no way means the withdrawal of all preventive and control measures, but to continue to strengthen management, strengthen services, strengthen the protection.

National CDC Deputy Director Chang Jile: summarized as “three major”: first, to strengthen the protection of key populations, the second is to strengthen the prevention and control of key institutions, the third is to do a good job of prevention and control of key industries, and the fourth is to dynamically carry out the prevention and control of large confined places and large-scale event management.

Strengthen the prevention and control of rural epidemics is the focus of the new phase

The person in charge of the Medical Secretary of the National Health Care Commission introduced that doing a good job of rural epidemic prevention and control is the focus of the new phase of epidemic prevention and control. On the one hand, drugs should be able to go down, to be able to distribute to the very end, the most terminal. On the other hand, serious illnesses can be transferred up.

Jiao Yahui, director of the medical department of the National Health Care Commission: the elderly with comorbidities, as well as children, these high-risk groups are included in the management of the medical association. In the province, hospitals above the second level in the city are required to establish a twinning relationship with county hospitals for zoning, so that in case of serious illnesses, a two-level referral mechanism between the city and the county will be established.

Jiao Yahui, director of the National Health and Wellness Commission Medical Secretary: the lung inflammation is heavy, more exudate, that is, the white image area reached 70% to 80%, in the clinical we colloquially called “white lung”. At this stage, the patient may develop hypoxemia or respiratory distress. This type of patient is mainly seen in patients of advanced age with severe underlying disease, but the percentage of such patients is very low. A significant proportion of patients with “white lung” can still improve.