At 19.50 p.m. on October 25, the press office of the people's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held a news conference on Kashgar epidemic situation to inform the relevant situation.
Novel coronavirus pneumonia, Gu Yingsu, deputy director of the the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Health Committee, said: in October 24, 2020, Shufu County of Kashi Prefecture regularly detected 1 cases of new crown pneumonia without infection. The asymptomatic infection, female, 17 years old, was positive in regular nucleic acid detection in village 2, Zhanmin Township, Shufu County, Kashi district. The results of regular nucleic acid detection were positive. The patients diagnosed as asymptomatic infection by experts have been transferred to the designated hospital of Kashi for isolation medical observation. At present, there are no symptoms such as fever, cough and so on.
After the asymptomatic infection was found, the local epidemic prevention and control headquarters immediately carried out nucleic acid detection for the close contacts and close contacts. As of 14:00 on October 25, 137 people were positive, all of which were related to the three village factories where their parents were located. All patients were asymptomatic infection after expert diagnosis.
After the outbreak, the epidemic prevention and control headquarters of Shufu County immediately launched the emergency response mechanism. The Party committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region shall make arrangements and arrangements for proper handling of epidemic situation and ensure the health and safety of all ethnic groups at the first time, and send working groups and expert groups to Kashi to guide the prevention and control work; the headquarters of epidemic prevention and control in Kashi area immediately starts the first level response, and the joint expert group of autonomous region and region rushed to Shufu County for work, and relevant departments have opened up comprehensively The exhibition epidemic situation research and judgment, flow regulation, key population screening, nucleic acid detection and other work. We will firmly adhere to scientific implementation of policies and accurate prevention and control to ensure that the epidemic situation does not spread and does not spread.