(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Zhong Nanshan: Facing the epidemic, China upholds the idea of "life first"
China News Service, Wuhan, September 24 (Reporter Ma Furong) The 13th China Bioindustry Conference opened on the 24th in Wuhan.
Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in a video speech that in the face of the epidemic, China upholds the guiding ideology of "life is supreme" and resolutely adopted strong restraint measures.
He revealed that for severe respiratory infectious diseases, the general approach is to control the disease within the scope of the national health system.
At that time, there were two choices: alleviate the condition or forcefully suppress it.
The former has little impact on the economy, but it may be out of control due to the strong contagion of the virus, while the latter may cause economic damage or even severe damage. In the end, China chose the latter.
Zhong Nanshan introduced that after the discovery of the human-to-human transmission of the new crown virus, Wuhan immediately adopted measures to "close the city"; at the same time, it was open and transparent, and the number of confirmed cases and suspected cases was reported in real time nationwide every day, and a joint prevention and control mechanism extended to the community was implemented to ensure Early prevention, early detection, early diagnosis and early isolation.
Carry out nucleic acid testing for all close contacts, including those with asymptomatic infections.
The establishment of 16 square cabin hospitals separated patients from non-patients and turned the tide of war.
Data map of Zhong Nanshan.
Photo by Wang Canon of China News Service
"Every country now has a big challenge. On the one hand, it must contain the disease and prevent infection, and on the other hand, it must develop the economy and resume work and production." Zhong Nanshan said that China’s strategy is to first contain and suppress the epidemic, and then gradually Reboot.
He emphasized that the key to controlling the infection lies in keeping distance, wearing a mask and washing hands frequently.
Zhong Nanshan believes that the new crown pneumonia epidemic should continue to exist this winter and next spring, and may develop.
He said that after discovering the local epidemic, it is effective to adopt community-level joint prevention and control, community-wide nucleic acid screening, tracing close contacts, and isolating asymptomatic patients with nucleic acid positive.
Especially for asymptomatic infected people, isolation measures must be taken because they are very contagious 5 days before and 5 days after the onset of symptoms.
The 13th China Bioindustry Conference was co-sponsored by 20 national societies and associations including the Hubei Provincial Government and the Chinese Society of Bioengineering. The theme of the conference was "Enabling Science and Technology Industry Empowerment".
This is the highest-level bio-industry summit held in China since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
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