Quzhou, Zhejiang: survey shows current overall infection rate is about 30-35%

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December 28 news, this afternoon, the Quzhou Municipal People’s Government Information Office held a press conference on the prevention and control of new coronavirus infections in Quzhou. At the meeting, the recent Quzhou City, the overall new coronavirus infection is in a rapid development stage, the number of new infections and the rate of infection is still rising in a single day. Since the release of the “National Ten” on December 7, as of 24:00 on December 27, Quzhou City has detected a total of 21.0 million positive cases of infection, the highest on the 21st (25,375 cases), compared with the 7th (66 cases) rose 384 times.

According to the study, Quzhou will enter the peak period of infection at the end of December, reach the first wave of peak in early January (around New Year’s Day) and enter a high plateau period, and may reach the second wave of peak at the end of January (one week after the Spring Festival). At the same time, a peak of severe illness may occur about a week after the peak of infection is reached.

Referring to the Quzhou CDC WeChat questionnaire data, the overall infection rate in Quzhou is currently about 30-35% of the total population, the regional distribution is mainly concentrated in urban areas and large township locations, the infected population is mainly concentrated in the young and middle-aged and adolescent population, and the infection rate in the rural elderly population is not yet high. However, with the arrival of holidays, school vacations and the return of migrant workers, the shock wave of infection will soon reach rural areas. Due to the large number of “one old and one young” in rural areas, the relative shortage of medical resources, and the lack of scientific treatment awareness, the number of rural elderly and children infected may increase rapidly, and need to pay attention in advance.

From the point of view of virus strains, the gene sequencing of 46 nucleic acid samples collected recently from newly crown-positive infected patients revealed that multiple variants of Omicron are prevalent in the city at the same time, with BA.5.2 as the main strain and BF.7 increasing in proportion, which is a cause for concern. In terms of onset symptoms, a questionnaire survey of 3479 previously infected patients revealed that among the top ten symptoms, fever, cough and muscle aches were the three most important symptoms, with muscle aches appearing in the highest proportion, accounting for 66.67%; followed by fever, accounting for 65.4%, with fever lasting 1-2 days being the most frequent, and most infected patients having fever receding in three days. The starting symptoms were mainly sore throat, fever and malaise, and most of the symptoms lasted for seven days. The longest duration and a certain percentage was cough, followed by sore throat.

On December 27, there were 10,331 beds open in the city’s secondary and higher hospitals, with 7,913 patients of all types in the hospital, of which there were 1,464 positive infections [43 cases of critical type (caused by underlying disease), 14 cases of heavy type (caused by underlying disease), 192 cases of common type, 1,209 cases of light type, and 6 cases of asymptomatic. There are no serious patients directly caused by the new coronavirus infection in the city for the time being.

In terms of capacity, as of December 27, 24 public hospitals at the county level and above, 104 township health centers (community health service centers) and 6 private hospitals have set up fever clinics or consultation rooms, with a total of 329 specialized consultation rooms, and the estimated daily capacity can reach 29,600 people. From December 7 to 27, the number of daily visits to fever clinics (clinics) in the city increased from 868 to a maximum of 14,600 (on the 23rd), an increase of nearly 16 times, and on December 27, the number of visits to fever clinics (clinics) was 13,900, including 7,187 visits to primary fever clinics. The number of fever patients visiting fever clinics in the city began to decline, and the proportion of primary care visits for fever patients rebounded to 51.6%.