Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, May 28th, title: Regarding the Guangzhou new crown pneumonia epidemic, the answers to your questions are here
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ma Xiaocheng and Xu Hongyi
On the 27th and 28th, Guangzhou held a press conference for two consecutive days to report the latest situation in Guangzhou’s response to the local spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
In response to issues such as the progress and characteristics of the epidemic, the college entrance examination and class arrangements, whether it is safe to take public transportation, and the order of vaccination, various relevant departments of Guangzhou have responded.
How is the latest epidemic situation in Guangzhou?
At a press conference of the Guangzhou Municipal Government held on the 28th, Chen Bin, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission, informed that 5 new cases of local asymptomatic infection were reported in Guangzhou that day.
Since May 21, as of 14:00 on May 28, Guangzhou City has reported a total of 4 confirmed cases and 10 asymptomatic infections.
Chen Bin said that the Guangzhou Municipal and District Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have jointly carried out the "three simultaneous" epidemiological investigations with the public security departments, screened close contacts and other relevant personnel, identified key places and key populations, and implemented measures in key places involved in the epidemic. Closed management and terminal disinfection.
According to reports, starting from the evening of the 26th, Guangzhou has carried out large-scale nucleic acid testing in key areas of Liwan and other districts, opening a total of 2,293 large-scale sampling points.
As of 14:00 on the 28th, a total of 1,169,698 people were sampled in the city, of which 859,757 results were negative, and the remaining results are yet to be released.
Zhang Zhoubin, deputy director of the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on the 27th that the epidemic was mainly spread after being infected in relatively closed places such as co-living, co-dining, co-custody, etc. There is a clear chain of transmission among infected people.
At the same time, the virus spreads fast and has a strong spreading power.
"The fast transmission speed is the biggest difference between this epidemic and previous epidemics; the strong transmission power is reflected in the fact that the virus can be transmitted by eating a meal and short-term indirect contact." Zhang Zhoubin said.
Prior to this, the Liwan District of Guangzhou City had notified that, after a comprehensive assessment by the expert team, it was preliminarily determined that the first confirmed case of this round of the epidemic, Guo Mou, was an overseas imported-related case, and his virus belongs to a mutant strain of the new crown virus that emerged in India.
In response to the traceability of the virus that is of concern to all walks of life, the local epidemic prevention and control department is speeding up investigations to identify the source of infection and the route of transmission as soon as possible, so as to effectively block the spread of the epidemic.
Will the college entrance examination be affected?
Chen Minsheng, deputy director of the Guangzhou Education Bureau, announced on the 28th that a total of 54900 people in Guangzhou took the college entrance examination this year, and the work plan and emergency response plan for the college entrance examination have been improved.
Chen Minsheng said that Guangzhou will strictly prepare for the organization and implementation of the examination.
Before the test, special inspections of hygiene and epidemic prevention will be carried out in conjunction with health, market supervision and other departments, focusing on strengthening the food safety and environmental governance of the test center canteen and the surrounding catering industry.
Under the guidance of the health department, designated personnel are responsible for environmental sanitation remediation, disinfection, ventilation and other treatments, and preventive disinfection of air conditioning and ventilation systems and surfaces of objects for examination offices, examination rooms, and places where test takers gather for food and lodging.
Chen Minsheng said that those who have respiratory symptoms such as fever and cough on the day of the examination will be guided by a special person to the alternate isolation examination room after being assessed by health professionals and qualified; candidates with suspected cases and those in the isolation observation period will be professionally assessed. Those qualified for the examination will be arranged to take the examination at the alternate isolation test center; for the candidates of confirmed cases, the examination will be arranged in the corresponding hospital according to the actual situation.
According to Chen Minsheng, as of the 28th, the confirmed cases and asymptomatic infected persons notified by the epidemic in Guangzhou involved three schools, including Guangzhou Light Industry Senior Technical School, Liwan District Peizhen Primary School, and Xinhui School.
At present, the three schools have temporarily suspended classes.
Chen Minsheng said that Guangzhou has suspended all campus gathering activities, schools in Liwan District have suspended inter-class activities, and schools involved in the epidemic have implemented temporary suspension of classes.
Among them, except for the temporary suspension of classes in the three schools involved in the epidemic, the classes of the close contacts of Sanyuanfang Primary School, Yicai Fourth Middle School, Zhenguang Experimental Middle School, Dongsha Boya School and Haizhu District Guangzhou No. 33 Middle School have been temporarily suspended. Suspension of classes.
"All schools and classes temporarily suspended start online teaching plans in a timely manner to ensure that'classes are suspended without suspension of classes, and classes without suspension of teaching.'" Chen Minsheng said.
Is it safe to take public transportation?
Shen Ying, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, said that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the municipal transportation department has strictly implemented the standardization of wearing masks, passenger temperature measurement, vehicle and station disinfection and other epidemic prevention and control measures, and quickly established public industry epidemic prevention and control measures. A solid line of defense for control.
In the subway, more than 2,800 cleaning personnel are arranged daily to perform in-depth disinfection work, strengthen ventilation, and ensure subway environmental sanitation; since the outbreak, 750 temperature measurement checkpoints on the entire subway network have cumulatively conducted epidemic prevention inspections on 1.83 billion passengers entering the station .
In terms of public transportation, strictly implement the prevention and control measures for the weekly shifts of public transportation vehicles. At the entrance of the public transportation station where the space is relatively closed or where people are easy to gather, the temperature of passengers, the supervision and persuasion of the standardized wearing of masks shall be carried out.
In terms of taxis, organize parade cars and online car-hailing services to conduct free disinfection through centralized disinfection service points, charging (replacement) power station yards and vehicle maintenance sites. For vehicles with a passenger starting and ending point in a medium-risk area, each transportation task is required Disinfect immediately after finishing.
In addition, Guangzhou efficiently organizes public transportation practitioners to do a good job of vaccination.
Up to now, nearly 160,000 drivers and station attendants in the public transportation industry have been vaccinated, with an inoculation rate of 97.7%, among which the vaccination rate of subway and bus front-line personnel has reached 100%.
Is the supply of vaccines sufficient?
Recently, due to the impact of the epidemic, the willingness of Guangzhou citizens to vaccinate has been unprecedentedly high, and the number of appointments has increased sharply.
As of 12:00 on May 27th, Guangzhou has opened 428 vaccination sites and about 2,000 standard vaccination units, forming a full coverage vaccination grid with point-surface integration and fixed-mobile complementary; the city has received 8.67 million vaccinations and 11.48 million. The number of doses, the target population's vaccination rate is 64%, of which 2.99 million people have completed the entire vaccination.
Chen Bin, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission, said that relevant parties are trying their best to optimize the vaccination process and conditions to reduce the inconvenience caused to the citizens, so that the citizens can get the vaccine faster and in a timely manner.