“We must attach great importance to the prevention and treatment of asymptomatic infections.” Prime Minister Li Keqiang emphasized when he hosted a meeting of the Central Leading Group on COVID-19 Epidemic Work on March 26.
The full name of “asymptomatic infection” is “COVID-19 virus asymptomatic infection”, which refers to those who have no clinical symptoms, but positive for pathogenic detection of COVID-19 virus in respiratory specimens.
At the meeting, Li Keqiang pointed out that at the beginning of the epidemic, we focused on treating the infected patients with COVID-19 virus, especially the critically ill and critically ill patients. Now we must continue to consolidate the phased results of the domestic epidemic prevention and control. While we are fully treating severe and critically ill patients and doing community prevention and control, we attach great importance to issues such as “prevention and treatment of asymptomatic infection”.
“Is the asymptomatic infected person infectious? Will the condition develop and change further? The health committee will organize experts to seriously study and judge and come up with scientific prevention and treatment programs. This is important for us to consolidate the results of epidemic prevention and control and prevent loopholes Content. “The Prime Minister said,” Relevant departments should take this issue seriously, seek truth from facts, and promptly and publicly respond to social concerns. ”
Data show that there are four main ways to find asymptomatic infections: one is active detection during close medical contact of COVID-19 cases; the other is active detection carried out in aggregated epidemic investigations; the third is COVID-19 cases The active detection of exposed people during the tracking of the source of infection, and the fourth is the active detection of travel history and residence history of some areas with continuous transmission of COVID-19 cases.
“No matter what kind of asymptomatic infection is found, it is necessary to formulate a clear scientific prevention and treatment plan in accordance with medical rules, and resolutely curb possible new virus infections and epidemic transmission.” The Prime Minister said.
Li Keqiang said that since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, relevant departments have been continuously adjusting the diagnosis and treatment plan according to changes in the situation, and the situation of asymptomatic infection must also be changed and scientifically responded to.
“In short, our purpose is one: to fully protect the lives, health and safety of the people,” said the Prime Minister.