Zhong Nanshan: Asymptomatic infections are also contagious in rural areas, pay attention to these during the Spring Festival
Today (31st), the "Helping Grassroots Epidemic Prevention and Control Thousand Miles" activity was launched in Guangzhou. Academician Zhong Nanshan answered questions related to grassroots epidemic prevention and control during the Spring Festival.
China Central Radio and Television: What do you think is the current focus and weakness of rural epidemic prevention?
In addition, what should be paid attention to in rural epidemic prevention during the Spring Festival?
Zhong Nanshan said that rural areas are now the top priority of the epidemic. From the recent incidence, it seems that 60% to 70% of epidemics occur in rural areas.
How to prevent the epidemic?
Zhong Nanshan put forward three aspects.
1. Reduce the gathering of people
Zhong Nanshan introduced that temperature and living environment affect the growth of the virus. Cold weather is a good opportunity for the virus to grow and spread. In this case, if there are more people gathered, the virus will spread more quickly.
This is the case in Heilongjiang.
2. Increase the penetration rate of prevention and control knowledge
1. Improve people’s awareness
Zhong Nanshan said that many ordinary people at the grassroots level in rural areas think that if they are infected with the new crown virus, they will have serious symptoms and must be hospitalized. Therefore, when he has simple symptoms, such as headaches and brain fever, he does not pay attention to it. Resistance passed.
But in fact, most patients with new coronary pneumonia are mild, and many are asymptomatic.
Because the transmission rate of the new crown virus is very high, it is difficult to go to the doctor after being sick, which will eventually delay yourself and infect others.
2. Improve the vigilance of village doctors
Zhong Nanshan reminded that for epidemic prevention in rural areas, village doctors must be vigilant. Don't let anyone come to see the doctor, just take some anti-fever medicine and Chinese medicine.
Once the patient has a headache, sore throat, fever, or fatigue, the patient must be required to undergo a nucleic acid test.
3. To help people conveniently and quickly detect nucleic acid
Zhong Nanshan pointed out that he hopes to solve the problem of inconvenient nucleic acid testing for the common people.
In some rural villages, people from all villages gather to take a bus to the county for testing. It takes time and is prone to cross-infection. Mobile vehicles should be used to go to the village to be checked. Don’t let the common people mobilize people. This is a very important manifestation of technology.
One feature of new coronary pneumonia is different from SARS. Even if it is infected with the virus, it may be asymptomatic, but it is obviously contagious without symptoms.
Therefore, during the Spring Festival, people in rural areas must: 1. Stop visiting and partying; 2. Go to a doctor if you feel unwell, and don't wait for a serious illness. 3. Take a nucleic acid check in time.