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Experts Urge Following Current COVID-19 Control Measures To Curb New Omicron Variant
Umer Jamshaid Published October 15, 2022 | 03:40 PM
BEIJING, Oct. 15 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Oct, 2022 ) :Chinese health experts have stressed the importance of adhering to current COVID-19 prevention and control measures, as the Omicron BF.7 subvariant has recently been detected for the first time on the Chinese mainland.
Dong Xiaoping, a virologist from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the Omicron BF.7 subvariant, which was reported on Oct.
1 in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has no obvious change in pathogenicity but shows strong transmission ability.
"Initial progress has been achieved in China's COVID-19 prevention and control work," said Liang Wannian, head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under the National Health Commission.
Liang noted that implementing the ninth set of COVID-19 containment protocols is of vital importance as the virus continues to evolve.
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