As of the 27th, the Nanjing epidemic has infected 155 local people
Nanjing's epidemic has affected 5 provinces
Since 9 positive cases were detected at Nanjing Lukou International Airport on July 20, as of 24:00 on the 27th, Nanjing has reported a total of 153 local confirmed cases and 2 local asymptomatic infections.
According to a report from the Nanjing Municipal Health Commission, the flow investigation found that the recent new cases in Nanjing were mainly concentrated in the airport and surrounding areas.
Nanjing Lukou International Airport is known as the "important hub of the world-class airport cluster in the Yangtze River Delta", with routes connecting 78 major domestic cities and 35 international and regional destinations.
In more than a week, the family members of the airport employees and flight passengers were also found to be infected in different places.
As of the 27th, the transmission chain has been extended to 5 provinces and 10 places.
Yesterday, the epidemic risk level in some areas of Nanjing was adjusted, and the number of medium-risk areas increased to 42.
The reporter called the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control, and the connection staff said that traceability work is ongoing every day, including the traceability of Lukou Airport. The progress and results need to be officially notified.
Infected people involved a large number of airport staff
On July 20, workers at Nanjing Lukou International Airport in Jiangsu Province showed positive samples in regular nucleic acid tests, which became the starting point of the Nanjing epidemic.
Since then, there have been confirmed cases every day, and more than 30 cases have been confirmed in a single day from the 25th.
On the 25th, 38 newly confirmed local cases and 1 asymptomatic infection were added.
On the 26th, 31 new local confirmed cases were added.
On the 27th, 47 newly confirmed local cases and 1 asymptomatic infection were added.
As of July 27, a total of 155 infected people have been found in Nanjing.
A large number of airport workers are involved among the infected.
The reporter's statistics found that the infected persons at the airport came from many positions such as cleaning, loading and unloading ground service, ground crew, auxiliary police, water and electricity.
Among them, the first positive samples involved staff included airport cleaning staff. Since then, more airport cleaning staff have been found to be infected, which has become the focus of attention from the outside world.
On July 28, a staff member of Nanjing Lukou International Airport confirmed to reporters that the cleaning of the cabin was carried out by outsourced cleaning.
The "Nanjing Lukou International Airport Cabin Cleaning Service Management Project Results Announcement" released in December 2019 showed that three companies won the bid, namely Shanghai Zhicheng Environmental Service Co., Ltd., Shenzhen City Railway Property Service Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Ord Aviation Services Ltd.
The staff of Guangzhou Aode Aviation Service Co., Ltd. told reporters that the company did contract part of the airport cleaning work, mainly in the transportation center and employee office buildings, excluding cabin cleaning, and denied that the company had employee infections.
The wiring staff of Shanghai Zhicheng Environmental Service Co., Ltd. refused to answer the situation in Nanjing, and the public telephone calls of Shenzhen City Railway Property Service Co., Ltd. were never answered.
The airport changed the nucleic acid inspection of employees in key positions to once every three days
In fact, outsourcing services are not uncommon in the field of civil aviation.
The reporter inquired on a bidding big data platform and found that China Southern Airlines Xinjiang Branch, Nantong Airport Group, Tianjin Branch of Air China Co., Ltd. have all issued tender announcements for cabin cleaning services.
What is concerned by the outside world is that when the airport outsources its business, who will implement and manage the epidemic prevention and control measures?
The staff of Guangzhou Aode Aviation Service Co., Ltd. stated that the epidemic prevention work of all projects is carried out in accordance with the requirements of relevant functional departments.
Airport staff said that the airport's measures to prevent and control infection are to vaccinate and test for nucleic acid.
The reporter noted that on the evening of July 21, the Party Committee of Eastern Airport Group held an (enlarged) meeting and admitted that "the new crown epidemic at Nanjing Airport has a huge impact and a profound lesson. It is a profound education for the entire group."
The main points raised at the meeting included increasing the frequency of nucleic acid testing for employees in key positions, changing from a weekly inspection to a three-day inspection; for cleaning and freight security personnel, the implementation of international and domestic separation, and special-class management; Elimination frequency in important areas; strengthen management of outsourcing units; strictly regulate waste disposal.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission issued a document on the 28th stating that while the overseas epidemic situation is still not optimistic, Lukou Airport has problems such as lack of supervision and unprofessional management, and various measures for epidemic prevention and control have not been implemented in detail.
According to reports, the airport did not separate the cleaning personnel responsible for overseas and domestic cleaning, and routine supervision was seriously lacking.
What's more serious is that the airport still has the problem of unprofessional management, which has changed international and domestic flights from separate operations to unified and mixed operations, causing the influx of overseas epidemics and leading to the spread of the epidemic.
In addition, after the positive samples were found, the prevention and control of relevant personnel at Lukou Airport was not in place, causing the epidemic to spread.
In addition, on July 23, according to Xinhua Daily’s new media, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee decided to suspend Comrade Feng Jun’s position as Party Secretary and Chairman of the Eastern Airport Group Co., Ltd.
Disease Control and Prevention in Jiangsu Province: Trace to the source of Lukou Airport
An epidemic prevention expert told reporters that the arrival of an international flight at the airport involved a series of follow-up work. One staff member was infected and spread within small groups. If it is not detected in time, the epidemic may gradually disperse.
He said that when cleaning entered the cabin for cleaning, it is not known whether protective clothing was issued; ordinary passengers have already disembarked, and the possibility of human-to-human transmission is unlikely, and the probability of human-to-human transmission is much lower than that of human-to-human transmission. Whether the cleaning is really the first to be indirect Infection, or leakage in other links, requires further investigation.
However, as the epidemic progressed to the 9th day, the local government still did not disclose how the infection occurred. He believes that the degree of publicity and timeliness needs to be improved so that similar situations can be prevented from being repeated.
Where is the progress of the tracing of the epidemic?
How did the virus flow out of the airport?
The reporter asked the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The connection staff said that traceability work is ongoing every day, including traceability to Lukou Airport, but the progress and results cannot be informed, and an official notification is required.
Associated infections in multiple places and secondary transmission across provinces
As of July 27, the epidemic entered its eighth day. In addition to Nanjing, the epidemic also involved Suqian, Jiangsu, Shenyang, Liaoning, Dalian, Guangdong, Zhongshan, Guangdong, Zhuhai, Sichuan, Luzhou, Sichuan, Mianyang, Sichuan, Chengdu, Sichuan, Ma'anshan, Anhui, Wuhu, Anhui, etc.5 In 10 provinces, Nanjing, the total number of infected people in this round of the epidemic reached 174.
There are also different ways of the epidemic's outflow.
Some infected persons have a clear history of close contact.
For example, Tong Moumou, an infected person in Ma'anshan, Anhui, is from Nanjing and the husband of a confirmed case of a cleaning lady at Lukou Airport. He is engaged in temporary decoration work between Nanjing and Ma'anshan City and County in Anhui Province.
Some infected people have been to Nanjing Lukou Airport, such as those reported in Suqian, Dalian, Shenyang, Zhuhai, Mianyang, and Wuhu.
Some infected people only stayed at the airport for a short time, and some infected people took online taxis, buses, etc. to their destinations after leaving the airport.
Some infected people did not have a history of living in Nanjing Lukou Airport, and their relationship with the Nanjing epidemic could be clarified through virus gene sequencing.
For example, Chen, an infected person in Luzhou, Sichuan, attended training in Shanghai from July 18 to 24, and then arrived in Luzhou by plane from Shanghai.
In the official circulation information, there was no information about Chen passing through Nanjing Lukou Airport and contacting the infected person in Nanjing, but through the sequencing of his virus gene, it was concluded that it was highly homologous to the Nanjing epidemic.
After these cases entered various places, they brought about secondary transmission in the local area and even across provinces.
A woman in Shenyang, Liaoning, stopped at Lukou Airport and was found to be infected after returning to Shenyang. Her parents, as her close contacts, were also diagnosed as positive afterwards.
Three people who were infected in Dalian had traveled to Zhangjiajie from Nanjing Lukou Airport to watch the performance, and then another person who watched the same performance also found the infection.
After the case was discovered, various localities strengthened prevention and control measures.
Dalian conducted 14-day quarantine and 4 nucleic acid tests on 10,417 people who came (returned) from Nanjing.
However, Zhangjiajie issued a notice yesterday that because 3 cases of asymptomatic infection in Dalian, Liaoning Province, diagnosed on July 26, and 1 case of asymptomatic infection in Dalian, diagnosed on July 27, have trajectories that overlap in time and space. Pointing to the charming Xiangxi Theater in Zhangjiajie on the evening of July 22, after evaluation, all the audience in the first show (18:00-19:00) of the charming Xiangxi on the evening of July 22 belongs to the high-risk group.
On the 28th, Chengdu, Yangzhou, Changde and other places reported infected people. The number of people infected with the Nanjing epidemic is still increasing.
The Hanjiang District of Yangzhou reported that a Nanjing Laiyang employee tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid when he saw a doctor at Yangzhou Friendship Hospital.
Chengdu notified that there were two new confirmed cases and one asymptomatic infection yesterday.
The Chengdu Municipal Health Commission reported that the city’s recent 5 locally confirmed cases and 1 asymptomatic infection are all related to the Nanjing Lukou Airport epidemic.
One case of asymptomatic infection was found in Wuling District, Changde City, Hunan, and his family members had contact history with confirmed cases in Chengdu.
In Nanjing, there are still new infections appearing.
After the cases were found at the airport, drivers, salesmen, college dormitories and other practitioners have been diagnosed. In their daily social activities, they are active in markets, shopping malls, schools, mahjong halls and other places, and some people have also consulted doctors to buy medicines by themselves.
According to the press conference in Nanjing yesterday, the districts where cases were found in Nanjing include Jiangning, Lishui, Jianye, Gulou, Gaochun, Xuanwu, Qinhuai, Qixia, and Yuhuatai.
The cases are mainly concentrated in the airport and surrounding areas, and there have been many clusters of epidemics.
It is recommended that citizens do not get together, gather or visit, continue to take good personal protection, and actively cooperate in the implementation of various prevention and control measures.
Beijing News reporter Dai Xuan