A Chinese expert says the number of infected people will increase significantly for the time being as all tests are carried out.
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(Beijing = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jinbang Kim = For the first time, the number of new infections in Shanghai, China, where the city is locked due to the spread of Corona 19, has exceeded 20,000.
According to the National Health Commission of China on the 8th, the number of new infections in China reached 24,101 the day before, breaking a new high for four days in a row.
Among them, 21,222 in Shanghai, rising to 20,000, are setting new highs every day.
Chinese authorities are conducting nucleic acid (PCR) testing and rapid antigen testing for all residents of Shanghai to detect infected people early while the spread of Shanghai is not slowing down.
Earlier, at a briefing on the 6th, spokesperson Mi Peng of the National Health and Health Commission (National Health Commission) said, “In the context of the rapid spread of COVID-19 in China, we must constantly adhere to the dynamic zero-corona policy.” Screening, testing, quarantine and treatment should be strengthened,” he said.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, commented on the same day, “The current Omicron mutation spreads rapidly and there are many stealth infections and asymptomatic cases.” “The Corona policy can achieve the maximum quarantine effect at the minimum cost,” he emphasized.
Some predict that it will take regarding two weeks for the outbreak in Shanghai to subside.
“The average incubation period of Omicron is 3 days, and infected people excrete the virus from the body 1 to 2 days before symptoms first appear,” said Wu Zunyu, chief epidemiology expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, via Weibo, a social media platform in China. Taking this into consideration, to find an infected person, it is necessary to conduct a full test four times,” he explained.
He continued, “In the case of a megalopolis of 27 million people, it takes 2-3 days to complete the entire test, and it takes 10 to 14 days in theory to find infected people by conducting up to 4 tests and achieve zero corona through isolation.” added.
In an interview with Xinhua, the state-run news agency, the party secretary of Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University also said, “The number of infected people will increase significantly for the time being in the context of full testing in Shanghai. “We are screening the infected,” he said.
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