Why can't you "lie flat"? You will understand after looking at these data of Omicron

Since March, more than 270,000 cases of local infections have been reported nationwide.

Faced with the characteristics of local clustered epidemics in my country, which are numerous, widespread and frequent, the epidemic prevention and control work still faces severe challenges.

▲Medical staff collect nucleic acid samples for residents in Changfeng New Village, Putuo District, Shanghai. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Fei

Faced with the rapid spread of Omicron, some people are wondering: With so many countries already "lying down", why are we still insisting on "dynamic zero"?

To answer this question, we must first look at the real data about Omicron:

Omicron poses a serious threat to special groups such as the elderly and patients with serious underlying diseases. Omicron is by no means a "large-scale flu."

On the 10th, Liang Wannian, leader of the expert group of the National Health Commission's COVID-19 response and disposal work leading group, said in an interview that the current epidemic cannot be regarded as an influenza epidemic, and it is obviously different from influenza:

First, it spreads faster than the influenza virus.

Second, it is highly concealed and more likely to spread on a large scale. The mortality rate of Omicron is generally higher than that of influenza, especially among the elderly, and even more than 10 times higher for those over 80 years old.

Third, the new coronavirus is always mutating, and the direction of mutation is unclear.

On April 7, medical staff took nucleic acid samples from residents at a nucleic acid testing point in Nanguan District, Changchun City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jian

**The general policy of "dynamic zeroing" is an effective response strategy after multiple desperate battles with highly transmissible mutants. ** Short-term lockdown and control is in exchange for a longer period of normal production and life. "Lying down" is not an option for China. If the "dynamic zeroing" policy is well implemented, it will achieve the greatest benefits at a very low cost.

After “lying down” to fight the epidemic, what happened to those countries?

Since the British government announced the "Coexisting with COVID-19" plan in February, those who test positive for COVID-19 do not need to self-isolate, and the government no longer tracks close contacts, but the epidemic data remains high. The latest data from the UK National Statistics Office shows that about one in every 13 people in the UK has been diagnosed.

After experiencing a peak during the Christmas holidays, the average daily number of new infections in the United States in the past week was still nearly 30,000, and the number of deaths was nearly 500.

File photo: On January 4, 2022 local time, a coronavirus testing station on 14th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA, conducted testing for residents.

The COVID-19 outbreak in Japan has recently rebounded, with new infections increasing in 44 of the country's 47 prefectures in the past week. The epidemic in South Korea is still at its peak, with an average of nearly 230,000 new infections and about 310 deaths per day in the past week.

Data map: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

At present, there is still a potential risk of the virus continuing to mutate. According to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of April 8, Beijing time, more than 490 million people have been infected with the new coronavirus and more than 6.17 million have died. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also pointed out that the epidemic is expected to continue to break out around the world, especially in areas where measures to prevent transmission have been lifted.

“Dynamic zeroing” does not pursue “zero infection”, but rather pursues timely detection and rapid elimination. Once an outbreak occurs, it must be eliminated to prevent it from causing sustained community transmission and large-scale epidemic rebound.

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Comprehensive sources: National Health Commission, Xinhuanet, Science and Technology Daily, Science Popularization China, China News Network, People's Daily Client, Central Political and Legal Commission Chang'an Sword, etc.