Tianjin China January 17 ANI The municipality of the northern Chinese city of Tianjin is trying to block the transmission of COVID 19 amid the spread of Omicron, according to local media.
In an interview, Zhang Boli, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM, said that the first step is to block local community transmission outside COVID 19 control regions.
A total of 22 asymptomatic cases have been reported, according to the news outlet, which said local authorities said on Monday.
This outbreak will usually be under control when there are no new patients in the regions under control and no infections in the isolation sites, Zhang said.
Don't treat the Omicron variant of COVID 19 like the flu Zhang stressed, noting that Omicron is different from the flu.
The National Health Commission said on Monday that 163 new locally transmitted COVID 19 cases were reported in the last 214 hours.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, 80 were reported in Tianjin, 68 in Henan, nine in Guangdong, five in Shaanxi and one in Guangxi, according to the commission.