The mainland’s new crown pneumonia epidemic rebounded following the National Day Golden Week. 2,089 local infections were recorded the day before. There were cases in 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Beijing, Guangdong, and Shanghai, of which Inner Mongolia accounted for the largest number of 782 cases. The mutant virus Omicron BF.7, which is raging in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has now spread to Shenzhen following spreading to Shaoguan, Guangdong. The Shenzhen Municipal Government announced yesterday that it will implement “three-day inspections” for all arrivals in Shenzhen.
The Shenzhen government said that from 00:00 on Saturday to midnight on Monday, Shenzhen had accumulated 46 local infections, of which 32 were imported from other provinces and cities. The Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a virus gene sequencing analysis of all cases since Sunday. The results showed that most of the cases were infected with BF.7, BA.2.76 and BA.2.2, of which BF.7 was detected for the first time in Shenzhen.
BF.7 may become the global mainstream new coronavirus variant strain
BF.7 is the abbreviation of BA.5.2.1.7, a branch of BA.5 variant virus. Compared with BA.4 and BA.5, BF.7 has a faster transmission speed, stronger infectivity, and shorter intergenerational interval, which is easy to cause large-scale transmission. BF.7 infection cases have also continued to rise in European and American countries. Among them, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that BF.7 has become the third most detected local variant of the new coronavirus in a short period of time, with a proportion of 4.7% and continued to rise; Belgium The proportion of BF.7 reached 25%, and the BF.7 of Germany, France and Denmark accounted for regarding 10%. The World Health Organization warned earlier that BF.7 may spread rapidly around the world and become a new mainstream new coronavirus variant.
Faced with the threat of BF.7, Shenzhen requires people who arrive there to “check three times a day”, that is, they must undergo a nucleic acid test every day within three days following arrival. During this period, they will not have meals, parties, or go to crowded places, and visitors will be refused. At the same time, entering Shenzhen must hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours.
The Shenzhen government also reminded the public to wear masks, pointing out that there have been many cases of “outdoor airborne transmission” caused by not wearing masks properly. One of the patients traveled to Inner Mongolia during the National Day and was diagnosed on Sunday following returning to Shenzhen. However, he went out without a mask last Saturday night and passed by a passerby who was subsequently diagnosed on Monday. The Shenzhen government pointed out that the patient was infected with BF.7, which has caused more than 20 cases of infection.
Another case involved a patient spitting into a trash can next to him when he passed by a supermarket. A minute later, a passerby lingered regarding one meter away from the trash can for regarding one minute. whole nose. Two days following the patient was diagnosed, the passerby was also confirmed to be infected.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/china/omicron-bf.7 to Shenzhen – Shenzhen requires three inspections for arrivals/342511?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
