[Explanation] Since the beginning of January, after the outbreak of a local cluster of epidemics in Shijiazhuang, elimination has become an important part of the epidemic prevention and control link.

On January 13, the Veterans Affairs Bureau of Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, launched and organized veterans and volunteers in its jurisdiction to establish a voluntary service company for veterans in Yuhua District to kill the commando. There are currently 55 people.

This team kills some key areas of Shijiazhuang every day, and has completed killing more than 1.5 million square meters so far.

  [Explanation] On the morning of January 28, in the Fuqiang Primary School in Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, the elimination team wearing protective clothing and carrying more than 70 kilograms of elimination equipment was debugging the fog machine, preparing to conduct a comprehensive review of the school’s public areas. Kill.

  [Concurrent] Retired soldiers from Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, volunteered to serve and kill commando member Yu Yongbo

  Our set of equipment is filled with about 60 to 70 kilograms of water, and it is filled with (chlorine dioxide) effervescent tablets, which are used for disinfection. We (now) do a secondary disinfection for the outdoors.

  [Explanation] Gao Jiajia is one of the few female players in this team.

She introduced that after the outbreak in Shijiazhuang, she learned about the recruitment of volunteers for veterans in Shijiazhuang. She immediately signed up and started working as local volunteers on January 13.

Gao Jiajia said that as a veteran, this job is what she should do.

  [Concurrent] Retired soldiers from Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, volunteered to serve and kill commando members Gao Jiajia

  Two days before we started, we cooperated with the government to do the flow adjustment work. After we trained these killing processes, we started to contact the killing task. After removing the equipment on the back (killing equipment) for the first time, the shoulders hurt. When I get busy every day, I don’t feel tired. I just go back at night. When I rest, I might fall asleep in one second.

  [Explanation] Yang Yunchun is the Sichuan baby in this team. He immediately set off from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and arrived in Shijiazhuang on January 8 when he learned of the outbreak in Shijiazhuang.

Joined the kill commando on the 17th.

Yang Yunchun said that they are now killing 7 locations every day and working hours are about 8 hours.

  [Concurrent] Retired soldiers in Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, volunteered to serve and kill commando member Yang Yunchun

  Because we carry seventy or eighty kilograms of equipment every day, both shoulders and arms are very tired. It feels that it is very easy to remove this equipment (after). After returning to the dormitory or after eating, the whole person is in one place. This state of exhaustion, (always) persistence (the reason for coming down) is to let Hebei recover earlier, which is the duty and mission of a veteran.

  Chen Shiyu reports from Shijiazhuang, Hebei

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]