新英美报刊选读（第五版） 课件 Unit 8 Health.pptx

Unit 8HealthPassage 1Tianjin’s rapid COVID-19 tests help stem further Omicron spread; how did it make an impossible mission possible?Background InformationWarming-up QuestionsOrganization Analysis Detailed ReadingPost-ReadingBackground InformationTracing the spread of Omicron variant in ChinaBackground InformationTracing the spread of Omicron variant in ChinaGuangzhouOn December 14 last year, Guangzhou in south Chinas Guangdong Province, detected a COVID-19 case involving the Omicron coronavirus variant. The variant was found during the genome sequencing of samples collected from a 67-year-old man under home quarantine in the city. Over the following three days, three new infections were reported, all living in the same building as the elderly resident. No new cases have been reported since.TianjinOn January 8, Tianjin detected its first two locally transmitted confirmed cases attributable to the Omicron variant in the fresh resurgence that involved 20 people, all registered in the northern Chinese citys Jinnan District. The city neighboring Beijing has since conducted three rounds of citywide nucleic acid testing and by January 15, a total of 214 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases were found in the latest epidemic resurgence. Authorities didnt elaborate on how many of them were the Omicron variant.Background InformationTracing the spread of Omicron variant in ChinaAnyangOn January 10, two COVID-19 local infections in Anyang City, central Chinas Henan Province, were confirmed to have been caused by the Omicron variant, which has been classified as a member of Clade BA.1. The two patients were believed to be linked to the same transmission chain as the existing local cases in Tianjins Jinnan District. The source of the COVID-19 infections in Anyang has been identified as a college student who returned to Tangyin County of Anyang from Jinnan District on December 28, 2021. As of Saturday, Anyang had reported 250 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, w