Hebei Epidemic Warning Record
"China News Weekly" reporter / Du Wei Li Mingzi Wang Tian
Issued in the 982th issue of 2021.1.25 in China News Weekly
After attending the wedding of a distant cousin, Tian Guirong, who lives in Xiaoguozhuang Village near Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport, started coughing. At first she and her family didn't care, thinking it was a small cold and just take some medicine.
Five days later, at 4 am on January 2, the 61-year-old felt chills, chest tightness, cough and sputum, and her body temperature reached 38.7°C.
In the special period when the new crown epidemic has never gone away, fever is no small matter.
At 5 a.m. that day, Tian Guirong’s son drove her more than an hour to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University in Shijiazhuang.
The doctor was extra vigilant and tested Tian Guirong three times with two different methods.
Four hours later, Tian Guirong was diagnosed as a person infected with the new crown virus. She was also the first confirmed case of the Hebei epidemic.
The alarm sounded.
As of 24:00 on January 18, 2021, Hebei Province has 800 local confirmed cases, 168 asymptomatic infections, and Shijiazhuang City has a total of 766 confirmed cases, making it the hardest hit area.
The first confirmed case in Hebei is not "patient zero".
Shi Jian, director of the Emergency Response Office of the Hebei Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the initial estimate of Hebei No. 0 case was earlier than December 15 last year.
The virus has spread invisibly between villages for a period of time.
It was also around New Year's Day a year ago that the new crown virus appeared in Wuhan and later became a major outbreak. The number of local confirmed cases eventually exceeded 50,000 and 3869 people died.
A year later, Shijiazhuang, which is the same provincial capital as Wuhan and also has a population of 11 million, is also experiencing a crisis.
Across the country, since January 12, the number of newly diagnosed local cases exceeded 100 for 4 consecutive days. The epidemic situation in Heilongjiang, Beijing, Liaoning and other places showed local outbreaks or sporadic trends. As the Spring Festival approaches, people's nerves are strained again.
The virus spread quickly in the village
Unlike the Wuhan epidemic, which mainly occurred in cities, the Shijiazhuang epidemic has spread rapidly in rural areas located in the fringe of urban and rural areas.
From Shijiazhuang urban area, drive all the way east for thirty or forty kilometers to reach Xiaoguozhuang Village, Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District, the “eye of the storm”.
Similar to Xiaoguozhuang Village, which became the hardest hit areas of this round of the epidemic, there are Liujiazuo Village and Nanqiaozhai Village, which are less than two kilometers away. The cumulative number of confirmed cases in the three villages accounts for about 50% of the current total number of cases in Shijiazhuang City.
These villages are located within 10 kilometers from Shijiazhuang Zhengding Airport. Nearby are the county-level cities Xinle City and Zhengding County managed by Shijiazhuang.
There are 20 administrative villages in Zengcun Town, with about 60,000 villagers, of which over 4,700 are in Xiaoguozhuang Village.
Like most rural areas in China, most young people in Zengcun towns yearn for cities and go out to work. Most of the people left behind are the elderly, women and children.
As of January 18, the confirmed cases in Shijiazhuang were mainly farmers. The average age of the cases was 45 years old, and 27% were over 60 years old. The number of female cases was 1.5 times that of males. The number of confirmed cases of primary and middle school students was nearly 70.
Fang Lingwei is a villager in Xiaoguozhuang Village. He told China News Weekly that young people in the village make a living by opening shops, working in furniture factories, food factories, shoe factories, and driving large trucks in surrounding villages and towns.
Xiaoguozhuang Village is close to the airport. Some villagers work as security guards at the airport and act as drivers of luggage transport vehicles. Others go to work in the urban area of Shijiazhuang, and even go abroad through labor services.
Compared with young people, those who stayed in the village and did not go out at home were mostly people over 50 years old, mostly women.
In Zengcun Town, if calculated by the area of arable land, the per capita arable land area of several villages is less than 1 mu, and geographical conditions have contributed to a high concentration of population.
Due to the short distance between the villages, the residents of several villages communicate closely.
Today, when online shopping has replaced shopping in shopping malls as a way of shopping for people in the city, going to the market is still a major life event for the villagers, and women in their 50s are the main force in the market.
Xiaoguozhuang Village will hold a market on the eighth, thirteenth, and eighteenth day of the lunar calendar every month, and the surrounding villagers will come.
Fang Lingwei said that compared with surrounding villages, Xiaoguozhuang Village has better economic conditions, and there are several bus lines at the entrance of the village.
Circulation information shows that on January 1, 2021 alone, 13 confirmed cases from Nanqiaozhai Village, Beiqiaozhai Village, Xiaoguozhuang Village and other villages have gone to Xiaoguozhuang Village to go to the market, and villagers from villages and towns in Xinle City also Will come in a private car.
From December last year to early January 2021, a total of 21 confirmed cases were reported from the surrounding areas to the market in Xiaoguozhuang Village. Some villagers had experienced nasal congestion, cough, fatigue, and anorexia before the market.
In addition to going to the market, another important event for women at home is the wedding banquet.
Fang Lingwei said that there are more women among the confirmed cases because women participate in more social activities.
During the wedding, women in the village will act as drummers and play various musical instruments. There are also wedding and funeral teams in the village. There is a custom of holding weddings at the end of the year.
Along with nearly 250 people, Tian Guirong attended a wedding in Oujing Ecological Garden near the airport on December 28, 2020.
Some people wore masks at the wedding, but some did not.
In the end, more than 20 people were diagnosed in this wedding.
The other two weddings were held on December 30, 2020 and January 1, 2021 at the Lucky Lai Hotel in Nanqiaozhai Village. The number of people diagnosed in these two weddings was 9 and 26, respectively.
If you search the flow information with "wedding banquet" and "wedding" as keywords, from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, 124 people were involved in the wedding banquets in Shijiazhuang, and a 44-year-old woman in Xiaoguozhuang village from December 30, 2020 to 2021 In just four days on January 2, I attended three wedding banquets.
The full moon banquet is also an activity that villagers are keen to organize and participate in. 9 people were "recruited" for participating in the full moon banquet.
Religious activities are also factors that easily lead to the expansion of the epidemic.
The relevant person in charge of Shijiazhuang stated at the press conference that there are 122 religious people in Xiaoguozhuang Village who believe in Christianity.
Before the outbreak, some religious people had gathered at a household in the village. Like other gatherings, it was easy to cause the epidemic to spread.
An important factor for the rapid spread of the virus is the extensive transportation in Xiaoguozhuang Village.
The provincial road passes through Xiaoguozhuang Village, which is close to the airport, Zhengding High-speed Railway Station and the expressway. Liujiazuo Village is only 3 kilometers away from the east exit of Shijiazhuang Airport on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway.
The itinerary of a confirmed case on January 15 outlines the location and convenient transportation of Xiaoguozhuang Village.
The case is a 30-year-old female from Xiaoguozhuang Village. She took the G627 high-speed train on January 1, 2021. It only took 1 hour and 10 minutes on the road to arrive at Zhengding Airport High-speed Rail Station at 9:15 in the morning. I took a private car to the Xinle City Credit Building Mall for shopping, and returned home at 3 pm.
Among the villagers in Zengcun Town, many are drivers driving coal in large trucks. Their trajectories can be found in Shenmu, Shanxi, Ningwu County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi, Aosen Steel Plant, Xinji City, Hebei Province, and Xichen Thermal Energy Co., Ltd. .
A confirmed patient on January 15 began to drive a truck through Shenmu City, Enshi City in Hubei, Nanyang City in Henan and Zhengzhou City from January 3, and from the east exit of Shijiazhuang Airport on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway on the evening of January 7 After getting off the highway, he was directly transferred to the designated isolation point due to traffic control, and the diagnosis was confirmed during centralized isolation and observation.
The spread of private cars in rural areas has also allowed the virus to take a ride further.
In Shijiazhuang’s 766 confirmed case flow information, search with "private car" as a keyword, and it can be found that the number of times the case traveled by private car was 242 times. If you search with "self-driving car" as the keyword, self-driving car The number of trips by the city is 402, and the two are added together, that is, in the month from late December 2020, on average, each confirmed case traveled by private car nearly once.
Guo Jianhua, deputy director of the Shijiazhuang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told China News Weekly that in terms of the time of onset and the number of cases, the cases in Xiaoguozhuang, Nanqiaozhai, and Liujiazuo villages came on earlier, and the number of infections There are many, basically it can be judged that the virus was first introduced from these villages and then spread to surrounding villages, towns, counties and urban areas.
According to Guo Jianhua, after the outbreak, they conducted serological tests on all staff in key villages such as Xiaoguozhuang Village and Liujiazuo Village in Zengcun Township.
The villagers with antibody IgG positive means that the infection time is earlier and the virus has been cleared or cured, which has traceability value.
At present, several IgG-positive villagers have been selected. They are distributed in these villages. There are men and women in all age groups, and the specificity is not obvious.
Combined with factors such as the earliest time of onset of the case, serological monitoring results, nucleic acid CT values, and genetic sequencing results of the first reported case, it is concluded that the earliest source of this round of epidemic is likely to be around December 1, 2020.
Since the first place of the epidemic and the hardest hit area are both close to the airport, the intermediary personnel first considered the possibility of the virus being imported from the airport.
However, Guo Jianhua said that the environmental samples at the airport and the environmental samples at the entry isolation point were tested, and no positive results were found.
In an interview with China News Weekly, the deputy director of CDC Feng Zijian pointed out that “From the results of virus traceability, the virus is imported from abroad, but whether it is related to the airport is still under investigation.”
Why the epidemic broke out at the grassroots level
"This Hebei epidemic mainly occurred in rural areas, which also reminds us that we have not emphasized enough on epidemic prevention and control in rural areas." Lu Hongzhou, party secretary of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, told China News Weekly that after the infection occurred in rural areas, The grassroots clinics are poorly vigilant. This is the weak link in the current prevention and control. The next step is to strengthen training to detect infected patients early.
Many villagers in Xiaoguozhuang said that since the summer of 2020, after the domestic epidemic was basically under control, everyone has further relaxed their vigilance, party activities have increased, and they don’t like to wear masks after the weather becomes hot. Cough and headache are treated as minor illnesses. If you don't go to the hospital, you won't be discovered.
Guo Jianhua also said that rural residents have weak medical awareness and bad medical habits. “Many people don’t feel that they are sick.” Insufficient access to high-quality medical resources is an important reason for the local outbreak of the epidemic.
It is not only the individual villagers who relax their vigilance against the virus, but also the rural grassroots medical institutions that should play a "gate-guard" role, including village clinics, clinics, and the township health centers of their superior management units.
It can be seen from the published information on Hebei Liuzhou that at least 62 people have gone to the above-mentioned medical institutions for treatment and medicines due to obvious symptoms such as cough, headache, and even fever, but they have not caused the necessary vigilance.
China’s current disease control system consists of four levels: the country, province, city, and county, and the county-level hospitals at the bottom of this system are not in the front line of rural epidemic prevention.
Below the county-level hospitals, there are township hospitals and their rural clinics and clinics. While meeting the medical needs of rural residents, these clinics and clinics are also responsible for primary disease prevention and control at the grassroots level.
Shi Aijun, who is now a volunteer for epidemic prevention in Xiaoguozhuang Village, said that a few years ago, Xiaoguozhuang Village’s clinic was rebuilt and all village doctors who used to operate private clinics were organized to work in the clinic. There were three or four permanent doctors, mostly four. At fifty, he had never seen a young doctor.
The village clinic can treat common colds, some minor problems in gynecology and pediatrics, deal with simple trauma, and can also do routine blood tests, but if it is a serious cold, you will go directly to the county hospital.
In addition, there are some private clinics in the village, which are basically opened by village doctors outside the village.
Judging from the public circulation information, the Xiaoguozhuang Village Clinic did not report patients with mild illnesses.
On New Year’s Day this year, a 68-year-old female patient in the village presented with symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose. She went to the village clinic for treatment. She stayed at home for two days and did not go out. It was not found to be positive until January 3 after all her throat swabs were collected. , Diagnosed as a confirmed case on January 10.
In the epidemic, due to limited conditions, rural grassroots clinics are unable to diagnose patients, but their greatest role should be to detect suspected patients in time and actively report them.
However, Mao Guotong, director of the Linru Town Health Center in Ruzhou City, Henan Province, explained, “The rural clinics do not have nucleic acid testing equipment, and many blood routines cannot be done. It is impossible to distinguish whether it is a common cold, fever, flu, or the new crown. Call the primary health center. The health center has an emergency team and a rescue team, and will send people to the scene in time."
However, primary medical institutions did not play a "sentinel point" role in the actual diagnosis and treatment process.
A citizen who had lived in the eastern part of Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang, said that in the summer of 2020, he had a fever, diarrhea, and sore throat and sought medical treatment in a town health clinic in the eastern part of Gaocheng District.
This health clinic does not have a health code, and I did not take my temperature after entering.
After the doctor asked about the symptoms, he prescribed medicines and injections without further examination, and did not report and follow-up visits.
According to literature reports, as of 2005, 60% to 70% of outpatient services in rural China were provided by private medical institutions.
Although in recent years, with the reform of the rural basic medical security system, the village clinics and other public medical institutions have strengthened their advantages in reimbursement, but the income of village doctors is still not well guaranteed.
Feng Lun has served in the village clinic of Dongqiaozhai Village where there are confirmed cases in the epidemic for more than 30 years.
According to his memories, when the village clinic was first built, there were 13 doctors of three generations, old, middle and young, but later, there were fewer and fewer doctors. In 2012, he also left the village clinic due to low wages and personal reasons and opened a private clinic. At the clinic, there were five or six village doctors who left during the same period.
In the whole country, low income of village doctors is not an isolated phenomenon.
In July 2019, 36 village doctors in Zhusha Town, Tongxu County, Henan Province resigned collectively due to low wages. They wrote in their resignation report: “The pressure on work is increasing, and the higher levels of funding are increasing. But the money is getting less and less, the salary is not in place, and the higher-level deductions are deducted. Now the village doctors can no longer take care of themselves."
"The weakness of the rural epidemic prevention system is a problem for many years, and it was not discovered only during this epidemic. In the final analysis, it is because of the lack of available people." Liang Xiaofeng, Vice President and Secretary-General of the Chinese Association of Preventive Medicine and former Deputy Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention According to China News Weekly, as rural barefoot doctors get older and gradually withdraw from front-line health work, young university graduates are reluctant to stay in the countryside, and there is an extreme shortage of talents in rural grassroots areas.
In 2018, more than a quarter of rural doctors in China were 60 years old and above, and only 5% were under 35 years old. In some towns, village doctors aged 60 and above accounted for 80%.
In addition, the phenomenon of low village medical background, low professional title, and low professional level is common. In 2018, the proportion of people with a bachelor degree or above was only 15%.
In the recent Wuhan new crown epidemic prevention and control, Fang Pengqian, a professor at the School of Health Management of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, wrote an article that rural doctors accounted for more than one-third of the grass-roots medical staff. They rely on the advantages of familiarity with villagers to provide rural primary health care. The main force of prevention and control.
However, it is undeniable that the elderly grassroots medical workers are not conducive to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. The elderly people are susceptible to the new crown virus, and the probability of cross-infection during the door-to-door service is high; secondly, in the face of many new prevention and control The old village doctors have difficulty in operating and low work efficiency.
The epidemic not only exposed the weakness of the rural public health system, but also loopholes in many local primary hospitals.
According to the report issued by the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic on January 18 and the existing circulation information, a confirmed patient in Shijiazhuang developed dry cough symptoms on January 1 this year, but did not experience symptoms from January 1 to 3 The mother who was hospitalized in the Cardiology Department of Gaocheng District People's Hospital was cared for. The case underwent a nucleic acid test on January 3, and the nucleic acid test result was positive on the 4th.
As of January 14, a total of 8 cases in the Shijiazhuang New Coronary Pneumonia Case Database were related to the hospital.
The investigation team believes that although the incident cannot be determined as a medical institution infection for the time being, many problems have been exposed during the occurrence, development and treatment of the incident, such as the inpatients and accompanying staff who did not complete the “examinations required” and entered the ward first The phenomenon of re-testing is common.
The extra beds in the ward were serious. The rate of extra beds in the two neurology wards and the cardiology ward exceeded 90%, which was a serious violation of the anti-aggregation regulations.
The management of the ward is chaotic. The escort of the first confirmed case is accompanied by his brother’s residence permit. The escorts and visitors enter and exit the ward at will, and the escorts are changed at any time, and the buffer room is not well managed...The close contacts come to the cafeteria at will , Shops and other public places activities.
The notification also pointed out that on January 2nd, a patient went to Xinle City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for acute cerebrovascular disease. The nucleic acid test result was positive on the 3rd and became the first confirmed case in the hospital.
On January 9, doctors, nurses, and escorts were successively found to have positive nucleic acid results.
As of January 11, a total of 6 positive results of nucleic acid tests have been found.
According to the investigation, this is a hospital infection incident caused by a community infected with new crown patients who brought the infection risk into the hospital, and the hospital infection control measures were flawed.
Emergency patients did not check the nucleic acid test results in time, nor did they take samples and submit them for testing in time. Instead, the patients were directly admitted to the ward and placed in the normal double room of the ward.
The notification mentioned that there are as many as 228 escorts for the 162 inpatients in Gaocheng Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. The reporting time of nucleic acid test results in fever clinics is too long, and even up to 16 hours for individual patients. The fever clinics and hemodialysis wards, hyperbaric oxygen, and medical care The temporary waste storage point is in the same small building, and the entrance and exit are only about 1 meter apart, which poses hidden dangers to production safety and medical safety.
A confirmed case was confirmed on January 7 and fever symptoms appeared on the evening of January 3. On January 4, I drove a private car to the fever clinic of Gaocheng Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for nucleic acid testing, but went shopping at Hang Seng Supermarket in the evening, and nucleic acid testing on January 5 The result was positive.
How to spend this winter?
The Hebei epidemic has not subsided, and 388 cases of new crown infections have appeared in Heilongjiang, also concentrated in rural areas.
At 5:00 on January 10, Wangkui County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province reported the first case of new coronary pneumonia Wang Mouhe.
On the second day, Suihua City found 45 asymptomatic infections by investigating Wang's close contacts and close contacts, all of whom were villagers in Huiqi Village, Huiqi Town, Wangkui County, where Wang's father was located. Officially released Claim: Cases are highly correlated.
As of 24:00 on January 17, a total of 145 new confirmed cases and 243 asymptomatic infections were reported in this round of the epidemic in Heilongjiang.
In response to the problem of weak prevention and control in rural areas, the Heilongjiang health department requires rural primary medical institutions to report suspected cases such as fever and cough to the township health center within 2 hours to achieve closed-loop registration, circulation, isolation, referral, handover and information push Management, implement "village report, township sampling, county inspection".
The Heilongjiang epidemic then spread to Jilin and Shandong provinces.
Jilin Province notified on the 17th that: Combining epidemiological investigations and whole genome sequencing analysis of the virus, the transmission chain of this epidemic in Jilin Province is clear, and asymptomatic infections in Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province were imported into Jilin Province to cause local transmission.
As of 24:00 on January 18, a total of 83 confirmed cases and 88 asymptomatic infections have been reported in Jilin’s imported epidemic, involving Changchun City, Tonghua City, and Songyuan City. “One transmission 100+ "Super spread phenomenon."
The "super transmission chain" originated from Lin Mou, an imported case from Heilongjiang.
45-year-old Lin is engaged in individual marketing. He has traveled to Heiji and Jilin several times recently. From January 6th to 11th, he carried out 4 marketing campaigns targeting middle-aged and elderly people in Gongzhuling City and Tonghua City, Jilin Province. Staff and "trainees" were infected.
According to the current publicly available information, the oldest on this "super transmission chain" is 88 years old, and the youngest is only 11 years old. He is the grandson of an 85-year-old who participated in the training.
Weihai, Shandong, which is more than 1,300 kilometers away from Wangkui County, also reported a new case of asymptomatic infection on January 12, who came to Weihai from Wangkui County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province.
As of now, Shandong has no new confirmed cases or asymptomatic infections of local new crowns.
Feng Zijian, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, previously stated publicly: “Currently, my country is showing a state of local outbreaks and sporadic outbreaks in many places. This is after the winter epidemic has risen sharply around the world, which has caused tremendous pressure on China’s foreign prevention and control of the epidemic. A reflection."
According to the National Health Commission, in the past week, Liaoning, Beijing, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Guangxi have reported confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia, and the epidemics in Shanxi and Shaanxi are all related to Hebei.
On January 14, Guangxi added a new confirmed case of local new coronary pneumonia, who was a staff member of the special class of entry isolation.
The cold weather in winter prolongs the survival time of the virus in the environment, which is equally worrying.
On January 14, the Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters notified that positive samples of the new crown had been found in three ice creams submitted for inspection.
Preliminary epidemiological investigations revealed that the raw materials for the production of this batch of goods included imported foods such as New Zealand milk powder and Ukrainian whey powder.
After entering the winter, infectious diseases are highly prevalent, coupled with continuous outbreaks abroad, and outbreaks in many places in the country at the same time, the difficulty and cost of prevention and control have doubled. Is there a more flexible and targeted strategy for epidemic prevention and control?
"From the perspective of health economics, it is necessary to calculate such an account: no matter how much cost is spent to prevent the epidemic, it is worth it. Through the flow adjustment and the nucleic acid test of all employees, all infected persons can be found quickly and the epidemic can be eliminated quickly. This is better than other countries. The epidemic has been spreading and the economic loss of repeated lockdowns is much smaller." Lu Hongzhou, party secretary of the Public Health Clinical Center Affiliated to Fudan University, told China News Weekly.
He also pointed out that the virus itself is characterized by more passages and greater variation. If the epidemic is controlled and the virus does not pass, then the existing vaccines and drugs can still work, which is also reducing the price and cost of epidemic prevention.
Jiang Qingwu, an epidemiologist and former dean of the School of Public Health of Fudan University, believes that domestic and overseas conditions are different. For example, most people in China live in buildings instead of single-family villas. The population density in residential areas is high, with dozens of floors of apartments. If you share an elevator, once there is a fish that slips through the net, a large-scale infection is likely to occur.
Compared with developed countries in Europe and the United States, China's per capita medical resources are still limited. If the medical run in Wuhan last year occurs again, the consequences will be disastrous.
"In 2020, our epidemic prevention is successful. We have summed up our experience on the basis of success to protect public health to the utmost extent. Now we must take strict precautions, use our own system advantages, and wait for the popularization of vaccination before thinking about the next step." Jiang Qingwu said.
Epidemics occur in many places, and the vaccine has just begun.
"This winter is a difficult time and a severe test. We hope that as the weather gets warmer, the survival period of the virus becomes shorter and the epidemic situation improves. Vaccines are important, but we face many difficulties." The PLA General Hospital breathed Liu Youning, a professor at the Department of Critical Care Medicine, said that the main difficulty is that China has a large population.
Generally speaking, the vaccination rate reaches 60 to 70% to form an immune barrier and block the spread of the virus. With a population of 1.4 billion in China, only 80% of the protection rate can be obtained from all vaccination. It will take a long time for everyone to complete 2 doses of vaccination.
In addition, the current vaccine cannot cover people over 60 years of age who need key protection. This is also a problem that needs to be resolved.
Recently, 29 provinces (municipalities) including Beijing, Shanghai, Hebei, Anhui, Henan, and Shandong have successively issued recommendations on "Chinese New Year in situ", suggesting that they should not return home for the Spring Festival and encourage flexible vacations.
Many people are worried about whether they can rush home before the Spring Festival, and some netizens have thrown out a national epidemic map. From south to north, from east to west, it seems that "this road is nowhere".
Zeng Guang, a member of the high-level expert group of the National Health Commission and the former chief scientist of epidemiology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview with the media that stopping the Spring Festival transport is tantamount to choking, but he also reminded high-risk groups such as the elderly and those with chronic diseases. , Pregnant women and other people, try not to travel far.
"This is an extraordinary period. Whatever is beneficial to prevention and control, do what you do." Jiang Qingwu said. In general, reducing the flow of people is definitely beneficial to blocking the spread of the virus. Governments at all levels are also balancing the needs of epidemic prevention and control. And the psychological needs of the people, but it is undeniable that any current neglect of prevention and control links may be exploited by the disease.
(Wen Zhong Tian Guirong, Shi Aijun, Feng Lun are pseudonyms)
China News Weekly, Issue 4, 2021
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