According to Xinhua News Agency’s official Weibo report, on April 2, it was learned from the Joint Prevention and Control Headquarters of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province that a mild confirmed case was recently screened in Changshu, Suzhou, and the virus infected was sequenced and compared to VOC/Omicron For the evolutionary branch of variant BA.1.1, no highly homologous sequences of the new coronavirus genome were found in the local and imported case databases, and the global new coronavirus GISAlD database. This means that a new variant of Omicron has been discovered locally. It is worth mentioning that recently, my country’s local clustered epidemics have shown the characteristics of many points, wide areas and frequent occurrences, and the epidemic prevention and control work still faces severe challenges. Zhang Boli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that even in the face of the Omicron variant, as long as active and effective epidemic prevention measures are taken, it can still be controlled. Zhang Boli said that he hopes everyone will strengthen their confidence. Zhang Boli said that the large number and high proportion of asymptomatic infections are the obvious characteristics of this round of epidemic. He explained that the emergence of this new feature is first related to the characteristics of the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant has increased infectivity, but the toxicity is relatively weak, and the clinical symptoms will be relatively mild. There were no clinical symptoms for a short period of time. In addition, Zhang Bo.
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