People who get sick with covid in China should no longer be hospitalized, although they should be isolated in specialized facilities, according to the new guidelines of the National Health Commission of the Asian country, which represent an adjustment of its strategy to control the pandemic in the face of the latest outbreaks. .
The institution announced last night that, based on a “detailed study of the transmission characteristics of the delta and omicron strains”, only those infected with at least moderately severe symptoms will have to go to the hospital.
China thus hopes to relieve the pressure on the hospital system, which is facing a resurgence of covid on an unprecedented scale since the one registered in Wuhan at the beginning of 2020, which was the first worldwide and started the pandemic.
According to China’s “zero dynamic covid” strategy, all those infected and their close contacts must be treated or isolated in hospitals or quarantine centers.
In the current outbreak, this guideline has been a challenge for the authorities of provinces such as Jilin (northeast), which are facing a large number of patients with mild symptoms: among the 1,509 new local positives registered yesterday in the province, 1,494 were asymptomatic. or had mild symptoms.
The Commission also indicated that hospitalized patients who present a cycle threshold of 35 or more – the higher this figure is, the less likely it is that they can infect other people – will be able to be discharged, after which 14 days of hospitalization will no longer be necessary. quarantine but 7 of “health monitoring in their homes”.
Last week, the health authorities gave the green light for the first time to the home use of rapid antigen tests in the Asian country, which, according to the Commission, will be “a complement to further improve the capacity for early detection of cases.”
Jilin province, whose 26 million inhabitants are prohibited from leaving its borders, recently placed an order for 12 million antigen test units, according to local media.
Likewise, the Commission mentions in its new guidelines the “standardization of antiviral treatment” against covid, which includes two drugs approved in recent weeks: Paxlovid, from the US company Pfizer, and another nationally produced one developed by the company Brii Biosciences.
Despite the scale of the outbreak, a study by the University of Lanzhou cited by the local media Global Times ensures that China could have the situation under control in early April.
The researchers estimated that the total number of infected people who will leave these outbreaks will be between 24,700 and 45,300.
Since last day 1, China has detected more than 13,000 new cases of covid, of which almost 11,000 have been caused by local contagion, a low figure compared to other countries but high in the Asian country, which still applies a strict strategy of zero tolerance against the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Since the start of the pandemic, 122,456 people have been infected in the country, among whom 104,040 have managed to heal and 4,636 have died, according to the Health Commission. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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