On December 24, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference.
A reporter asked a question, according to media reports, another variant of the new coronavirus has emerged in the United Kingdom, and several countries have now taken restrictive measures against passengers and flights from the United Kingdom.
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Wang Wenbin said that recently the UK announced the discovery of a mutated strain of the new coronavirus and has informed the World health Organization of the information, and several countries have also announced measures to close their borders to the UK, grounding round-trip flights and banning the entry of British flights. Considering the special nature of the mutated virus and its possible impact, in order to protect the health of Chinese and foreign personnel exchanges, after a full assessment, China, with reference to the practice of many countries, suspended round-trip flights between China and the United Kingdom. The Chinese side will closely track the situation and adjust the relevant control measures dynamically as appropriate.
According to the British Ministry of Health and Social Security statistics, as of December 23, local time, 24 hours in the United Kingdom, 39,237 new cases of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia, the highest single day since the beginning of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the cumulative diagnosis of 2,149,551 cases; 744 new deaths, the highest single-day death since April 29, the cumulative total of 69,051 cases of death within 28 days after diagnosis.
CCTV news news report said, local time 23, the British health minister Hancock in Downing Street Prime Minister’s Office held a press conference announced that from 26 00:01, including Sussex, Oxfordshire and other areas of eastern, southeastern and southwestern England, the new crown epidemic prevention and control level will be raised to the most stringent level four.
Hancock said cases of Newcastle pneumonia have increased by 57 percent in the past week; hospital admissions are at 1,909 per day, the highest number since mid-April this year.
The Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAG) 23 estimates that the “R” value for NCCV transmission is currently between 1.1 and 1.3, up from 1.1 to 1.2 last week. In the east of England and London, the R-value reached 1.2 to 1.5, meaning that every 10 people can infect 12 to 15 people.
The U.K. government added a more stringent level 4 on the 19th, corresponding to measures similar to the widespread “no footing” measures implemented in England in November this year.
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