China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 10th, title: "In the epidemic" Xiaoguozhuang: The whole village is isolated in different places in batches
Translated by China News Agency reporter Wang Tian
On the 10th, it has been eight days of isolation at home.
Zhang Bin (a pseudonym), a villager in Xiaoguozhuang Village, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, drew another tick on the New Year's calendar.
Before the outbreak in Hebei, Zhang Bin worked in a factory 40 kilometers away from his home.
On the evening of the 2nd, when he browsed the news, he saw that a confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia was found in Xiaoguozhuang Village. On the morning of the 3rd, he was notified to go home for isolation and undergo a nucleic acid test.
Five days ago, Zhang Bin's wife and children, as close contacts of the confirmed patient, were transferred to a hotel in Gaocheng District for centralized isolation.
Afterwards, he heard the announcement from the village's "big loudspeaker" that the whole village must be isolated in different places in batches.
"The village is almost empty, and there is no one on the street. Even the villagers who have not been transferred are required to stay at home and not go out. For decades, the village has never been so quiet." Zhang Bin said on the 7th. The staff brought him two catties of pork, a cabbage and two tomatoes, together with four bags of boiled Chinese medicine decoction, one bag a day.
Zhang Bin, who had nothing to do at home, began to pay attention to this sudden epidemic.
From January 2 to 12:00 on the 9th, Shijiazhuang reported a total of 158 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia. Nearly half of the confirmed cases were from Xiaoguozhuang Village or had been to Xiaoguozhuang before the diagnosis.
But where did the virus in Xiaoguozhuang come from?
Zhang Bin didn't know.
Xiaoguozhuang Village is close to Shijiazhuang Xinle City and Zhengding International Airport. There are more than 4,000 people in the village. Provincial Highway 204 passes through the village, making it the most prosperous village among more than ten surrounding villages with frequent population movements.
On January 2, the village reported the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia. On the 5th, the village was adjusted to a high-risk area.
On the afternoon of the 8th, at the first press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hebei Province, Li Qi, director of the Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, confirmed that the epidemic in Hebei was caused by an imported virus from abroad, and all cases can be linked by one epidemic .
"Our village does not have a church, and we have not heard of any villager coming back from abroad recently." Zhang Bin said that although he does not know where the virus came from, he is ready to isolate him in a remote place. "I cheer up my lover every day and tell She, as long as she obeys the arrangements, the epidemic will pass soon, and the family will definitely be reunited before the Spring Festival."
On the afternoon of the 7th, Gao Wen (pseudonym), a villager of Xiaoguozhuang Village, and his family of four boarded a bus that went to a remote place for isolation.
According to his memories, there were at least seven buses that came to the village that day.
One day later, the Gaowen family was placed in a hotel in Pingshan County. According to the prevention and control requirements, he and his wife lived in separate rooms with a child. Because they could not meet each other, the family could only communicate via mobile phones.
The second press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Hebei Province held on the afternoon of the 9th reported that the epidemic was highly concentrated and highly relevant.
After the first round of testing of more than 10.25 million people in Shijiazhuang, a total of 354 positive people were detected, of which 298 people were in Gaocheng District, accounting for 87% of the total. The remaining positive people were also related to Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District where Xiaoguozhuang is located. .
Ma Yujun, Acting Mayor of Shijiazhuang City, said at the press conference that according to expert judgment, the inflection point of the epidemic cannot be determined yet, traceability is still in progress, the spread of the disease has not yet a shrinking trend, and the risk of spread still exists.
Gao Wen said that after the outbreak, people in the village were also asking each other, hoping to find the source of the virus.
"What we can do now is to cooperate with the government to do a good job in testing and investigation, and look forward to stopping the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible." (End)