On December 18, a press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Zhejiang Province was held.
The first wave of the epidemic is expected to peak around mid-January
According to the calculations of multiple epidemic research models at home and abroad, the first wave of the epidemic in Zhejiang is expected to reach its peak around mid-January next year, which coincides with the Lunar New Year, and the epidemic will accelerate its spread along with population movement.
Previously, Jiangxi, Shandong, Zhejiang Hangzhou, Henan Zhengzhou and many other places have revealed the peak time of the epidemic, and all of them will be concentrated in January next year:
Jiangxi - The next wave of epidemic peaks in the province will arrive at the end of December this year and early January next year, reaching peaks around the Spring Festival.
Shandong——Dong Liang, head of the medical treatment expert team of the Shandong Provincial Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Handling Headquarters, said, "I expect it to be in January next year. In addition, cities are more densely populated than rural areas, and the peak of the epidemic in rural areas will be relatively later. .”
Hangzhou, Zhejiang—Many industry insiders predict that the first peak of the epidemic in Hangzhou is very likely to come in mid-to-late January next year.
Some experts also pointed out that human intervention will have a certain deviation in the arrival time of the peak.
Cangnan County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province—Industry insiders predict that the peak of the first wave of epidemics in Cangnan is very likely to arrive in the middle and late January of next year (around the Spring Festival), and human intervention will have a certain deviation in the arrival time of the peak.
Zhengzhou, Henan — According to many surveys and forecasts on the Internet, the threshold for the first wave of infections in Zhengzhou was on December 15, the threshold for the second wave was on December 20, and the peak time was on January 15.
Data map.
Photo by Sun Hanlun published by China News Agency
Nearly 8 of the infected people have become young and middle-aged
Zhejiang announced three characteristics of the current epidemic:
First, nearly 80% of the infected population has become young and middle-aged. Although vulnerable groups such as the "old and the young" accounted for only 7.4%, experts judged that with the development of the epidemic, the follow-up will gradually increase.
Second, more than 98% of the cases were mild and asymptomatic, and there were no severe cases or deaths.
The third is that the popular strains are mainly Omicron BA.5.2 and BF.7, and no strains such as XBB and BQ.1 have been found yet.
Government agencies, enterprises and institutions really need it, asymptomatic infected persons can take good protection and continue to work
On December 17, the meeting of the Leading Group for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Zhejiang Province was held.
According to the content released by "Zhejiang Release", the province made it clear at this meeting: Advocate "no nucleic acid is not necessary, and no nucleic acid certificate is not checked if it is not necessary".
On the 18th, Zhejiang proposed that every enterprise and institution should pay attention to it, actively take measures, make preparations in advance, try to avoid large-scale infections in the same unit within the same time period, and strive to minimize the impact of the epidemic.
The first is to do a good job in personal protection, carry out the action of scientifically wearing masks for all people, be the first person responsible for their own health, develop a good habit of wearing masks when taking elevators in office buildings and public places, do a good job of hand disinfection, maintain a safe social distance, and promote Work as much as possible online and telephone contact, reduce unnecessary walking and visits between units, offices, and personnel, prevent cross-infection of personnel, actively advocate vaccination, and those who meet the conditions should pay close attention to the second batch of booster vaccinations.
The second is to develop good living habits, strengthen physical exercise, have a reasonable diet and regular work and rest, ensure adequate sleep, maintain a healthy and peaceful mind, not be anxious, not follow blindly, and treat the new crown virus scientifically and rationally.
The third is to arrange positions reasonably. Party and government agencies, enterprises and institutions can optimize the combination of personnel positions based on the actual situation. At that time, the work continued and the order was not chaotic.
The fourth is to do a good job in health monitoring and symptom management.
All units should strengthen the health monitoring and service guarantee of employees. If employees have symptoms such as fever and cough, they should be guided to treat symptoms and ensure rest. Continue to work under the premise of personal protection, and seek medical consultation in time when the condition worsens.
The scene of the press conference.
Photo by Zhou Xia
Do not go to fever clinic unless necessary Do not call 120 unless necessary
If it is positive, if it is only mild discomfort, it is recommended to observe at home as much as possible, do not go to the fever clinic unless necessary, and do not go to the hospital unless necessary. Take a temperature measurement in the morning and evening when you are at home, and do a good job of self-health monitoring at the same time.
In addition, it is called for not to call 120 if it is not necessary, and to reserve a channel for the emergency hotline for extremely critically ill patients.
Prior to this, emergency centers in Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing and other places also called for asymptomatic and mild patients with the new coronavirus not to call the 120 hotline unless necessary, and to set aside rescue channels for critically ill patients.
Details: Do not call 120 unless necessary!
Make way for critically ill patients
What if the throat is cut with a knife?
If you have a sore throat, dry throat, and some online say that a knife cuts your throat, you can take some Chinese patent medicine lozenges to relieve sore throat, such as watermelon cream lozenges, grass coral lozenges, golden throat lozenges, etc. These medicines have the effect of clearing away heat For the effects of detoxification, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, one kind of lozenge is enough, don't take several kinds at the same time.
There is another treatment that is actually quite effective, that is, local cold compresses, eating something ice-cold, the throat hurts like a knife cut, eating a little ice cream can reduce swelling, and it can also relieve pain. At this time, you can buy popsicles to eat, which is also effective. .
Source: China News Network Comprehensive Zhejiang News, The Paper