[Explanation] "Virus Scouts", "Virus Hunters", and "Virus Terminators"...Recently, the reporter visited the Guangzhou Yuexiu District CDC. This is the nickname given to each team by the staff of the center.
In the past few days, the epidemic situation in parts of Guangzhou has been severe. The CDC's "researchers," "hunters," and "terminators" have been fighting on the front line day and night, fighting the virus without gunpowder.
Entering the new crown pneumonia prevention and control team of the center, the staff uniformly dressed in "China Hygiene" work clothes are busy in front of the computer. On the one-page calendar on the desk of the physician in charge Ying Fei Xiang, it is noted in detail that he has been off work every day since June. The time, among them, the word "overnight" is particularly conspicuous.
[Concurrent] Xiang Yingfei, the chief physician of the new crown pneumonia prevention and control team of Guangzhou Yuexiu District Center for Disease Control and Prevention
I was also very nervous at the time because this person’s profession was very special. When we first received this situation, we sent two teams. If we were here, we had to know first-hand. We will call the patient directly on the spot to find out some preliminary information about him. After that, we will immediately send the second group to the scene to visit all the places he has been to and screen out. His possible close contacts, as well as those who later can help him determine where he was infected.
[Explanation] According to reports, at the CDC, epidemiological investigations are called "virus scouts". After receiving a case report, they need to go to the scene immediately to quickly "crack" the path of virus transmission with the public security to cut off the epidemic. Transmission chain.
[Concurrent] Xiang Yingfei, the chief physician of the new crown pneumonia prevention and control team of Guangzhou Yuexiu District Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The on-site work is complicated and complicated, and it also requires a person to go to the back to sort it out and sort it out. After returning, you need to sort it out. Everyone will analyze and judge together, and then if a direction is analyzed, set off again to get this Things are clear.
[Explanation] Before the flow of investigation, the microbiological laboratory inspectors of the CDC, known as "virus hunters," had already been confronting the virus face to face.
[Concurrent] Ren Meiling, Section Chief, Microbiology Laboratory, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou Yuexiu District
What we are currently doing is mainly to isolate some close connections of hotels, as well as some investigations in key places, environmental samples, and some emergency suspicious positive samples. In a way, we are directly facing the virus because we collected them. We don’t know whether it has the new coronavirus in the sample, so we are most directly in contact with it.
[Explanation] Ren Meiling told reporters that since the outbreak in Liwan District of Guangzhou in May, the laboratory has been working in three shifts, and day and night has become the work mantra of this group of "epidemic" line inspectors.
[Concurrent] Ren Meiling, Section Chief, Microbiology Laboratory, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou Yuexiu District
Our laboratory is currently working 24 hours a day, that is, three groups of personnel are scheduled, and then when the workload is the largest, the staff work in it for at least 5 hours, and then every time they come out, their clothes are soaked. All the face is the indentation of the mask.
[Explanation] Away from the CDC laboratory, a group of cute "little yellow people" also appeared in the streets and lanes in the high-risk area of the new crown epidemic in Liwan District, Guangzhou.
They are from the 18-person elimination team of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Some people call them "new crown virus terminator."
In Guangzhou in June, the outdoor temperature was as high as 34°C. They resolutely put on airtight yellow chemical protective suits, protective masks and filter respirators, and carried nearly 20 kg of ultra-low-volume sprayers, and started cleaning in Liwan District. "Battlefield" work.
[Concurrent] Huang Liangyu, Section Chief, Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Section, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou Yuexiu District
It’s heavy, one is hot and the other is heavy. In addition to this set of things, we also have shoe covers and gloves. These will not be too heavy to wear on our bodies. The main reason is that our machines will be heavier. If you carry it on your back, it should be more than forty catties full.
[Explanation] According to Xu Bin, director of the Guangzhou Yuexiu District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, since the outbreak of the local epidemic in Guangzhou in late May, the center’s rapid start-up plan and all staff have been involved in the frontline of the epidemic. Up to now, these disease control people have been involved with the virus The struggle is still ongoing.
[Concurrent] Xu Bin, Director of Guangzhou Yuexiu District CDC
I think (CDC) is a hero behind the scenes in this epidemic prevention war. It should be said that because we are on an invisible front and a vision that the public has not paid attention to. We control and manage this source of infection. In fact, let everyone build a copper wall and iron wall between the virus and our people. The disease control people are doing this work.
Reporting by reporter Wei Jiefu from Guangdong
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]