National Health and Wellness Commission： The rapid growth of cases in some countries has brought new challenges to China’s ＂external defense input＂

　　CCTV News:On April 29th, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference, and asked the medical team of Beijing Hospital to tell the story of personal experience and fighting the epidemic together with the medical staff and heroic people in Hubei, and to answer questions from the media.

　　At the meeting, Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Wellness Commission and deputy director of the Propaganda Department, reported the epidemic situation.

　　0: 00 on April 28th — At 24: 00, the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported that there were 22 newly confirmed cases, including 21 imported cases, 20 in Shaanxi and 1 in Shanghai; One case is a local case in Guangdong; No new deaths; Two suspected cases were added, one in Inner Mongolia and one in Shanghai. On that day, 23 new cases were cured and discharged, and 627 people were released from close contact with medical observation.

　　There are 553 confirmed cases imported from abroad, including 22 severe cases; There are 7 suspected cases. A total of 1660 cases were diagnosed, and 1107 cases were cured and discharged, with no death.

　　As of 24: 00 on April 28, according to the reports of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, there are 647 confirmed cases, including 50 severe cases; A total of 77,578 discharged cases were cured, 4,633 cases died, 82,858 confirmed cases were reported, and 10 cases were suspected. A total of 731910 close contacts were tracked, and 8283 close contacts were still under medical observation.

　　There are no new and existing confirmed and suspected cases in Hubei. A total of 63,616 discharged cases were cured, including 46,464 cases in Wuhan; There were 4512 cumulative deaths, including 3869 in Wuhan; A total of 68,128 cases were confirmed, including 50,333 cases in Wuhan.

　　Provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported that 26 cases of asymptomatic infection were newly added, including 5 cases imported from abroad; One case was converted to a confirmed case on the same day; On the same day, 29 cases were released from medical observation, including 4 cases imported from abroad; 993 cases of asymptomatic infection are still under medical observation, including 131 cases imported from abroad.

　　A total of 1511 confirmed cases were received from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Among them, there are 1037 cases in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 45 cases in Macao Special Administrative Region and 429 cases in Taiwan Province.

　　On April 28th, there were nearly 3 million confirmed cases and more than 200,000 deaths in the world, and the number of cases in some countries increased rapidly, which brought new challenges to China’s "external defense input". We should continue to strengthen the prevention and control measures at air and land ports, improve the capabilities of nucleic acid detection, epidemiological investigation, centralized isolation and medical treatment, and guard the border defense.