In the near future, China's prevention and control situation has generally improved, and has steadily entered the "Class B and Class B" normalization prevention and control stage. The epidemic situation in various regions is sporadic. Has the epidemic ended? Is it possible for the new mutant to cause a new round of infection peak? How to continue to improve the epidemic monitoring system and information reporting system in the next step? Focusing on the hot spots of public concern, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the 23rd to respond. China's current epidemic is basically over. Has China's current epidemic ended? Liang Wannian, the expert group leader of the leading group for epidemic response and disposal of the National Health Commission, introduced that, from the perspective of public health, the epidemic can be divided into four categories according to the epidemic intensity: epidemic, outbreak, epidemic and pandemic. There are five important indicators to determine whether to go out of the epidemic, including disease infection rate, population immunity level, virus qualitative change, outpatient and emergency diagnosis and treatment volume, hospitalization and death, and overall prevention and control ability. Liang Wannian said that China has withstood the test of this round of epidemic and established a good immune barrier for the population. It can be said that the current round of epidemic is basically over, and the current infection is in sporadic and local distribution. Go all out to carry out medical treatment According to the data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the death rate of COVID-19 infected people in China has remained at the lowest level in the world for more than three years. Especially since November 2022, medical and health institutions have made every effort to carry out medical treatment around "protecting health and preventing severe diseases". What measures have been taken? Li Dachuan, deputy director of the Department of Medical Affairs of the National Health Commission, introduced that the first is to implement hierarchical health management for key populations. Give play to the role of grass-roots medical and health institutions, carry out health monitoring for the elderly and other high-risk groups with basic diseases within the jurisdiction, implement hierarchical health management according to the three health risk levels of red, yellow and green, and promptly refer patients once the condition changes. The second is to rapidly expand medical resources and ensure the need for treatment. In a short time, the number of fever clinics in medical institutions above Grade II has expanded from 7337 to 16000, and the number of critical beds has expanded from 198000 to 404000. At the same time, 16 national medical teams and 118 provincial medical teams were established. Third, do a good job in the prevention, control and treatment of epidemic situation in rural areas. The county-level medical community will be arranged in a grid way with the county as the unit, and the elderly, children and other key groups with basic diseases will be included in the management of the medical community, so as to promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources in the city to the county, and strengthen the patrol and inspection in rural areas. Fourth, we will vigorously promote Internet medical care to better meet the needs of the people to see a doctor during the epidemic. Fifth, continuously optimize medical treatment strategies. The 10th edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan and the 4th edition of the critical diagnosis and treatment plan were issued to clarify the classification and early warning indicators of the high-risk groups of severe and critical diseases, early intervention for mild cases, strengthen the gateway forward, and adhere to the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine and multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment. Continue to pay close attention to the new stage of epidemic prevention and control. Is it possible for the new mutant to cause a new round of infection peak? According to the analysis of experts, since China has just experienced a pandemic, the neutralizing antibody retained in the population will provide immune protection in a short period of time, and it is less likely to trigger a new round of large-scale epidemic in the near future. According to Chang Zhaorui, a researcher of the Communication and Prevention Division of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention,