China News Service, Guangzhou, April 13th, topic: Guangzhou under the epidemic: dynamic hierarchical prevention and control pay attention to special groups for help
Chinanews reporter Cai Minjie
Carrying out nucleic acid testing overnight, unblocking channels for seeking medical treatment, and replenishing living materials... Guangzhou, which encountered the delta variant last year, has recently faced new challenges.
In this mega city with a permanent population of more than 18 million people, people work together to protect their homes, both speed and temperature.
On April 8, a 7-year-old boy who lives in Baiyun District, Guangzhou City was re-checked positive in the school's routine nucleic acid test.
On the same day, a 41-year-old man who lives in Tianhe District developed symptoms and tested positive for nucleic acid.
Gene sequencing showed that the infection of the above two cases was a faster-spreading Omicron variant (BA.2 branch), which did not have high homology with other strains detected in Guangdong Province, suggesting that it may be a new strain. source of dissemination.
Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Public Transport Group in the area under the closed control and control area.
After the discovery of the epidemic, in order to isolate potential communicators as soon as possible, Guangzhou has dynamically implemented tiered and classified prevention and control, carried out overnight epidemiological investigations and nucleic acid screening in many places, checked close contacts, sub-secret and key groups, and assigned "yellow codes" to key personnel.
Public transportation stations involved in the prevention and control area are suspended from external operations, and large supermarkets take temporary control measures.
At the same time, Guangzhou has released information on the epidemic on a rolling basis, ranging from "community transmission may have occurred in the closed area" at the press conference to dynamically publishing false information on the Internet to refute rumors, so that citizens have a certain degree of awareness of the development of the epidemic.
While racing against the virus, Guangzhou has been focusing on special groups.
There are 9,686 special groups in Haizhu District, and more than 15,200 special groups in Baiyun District's closed and controlled areas. Guangzhou has been continuously accurate in the number of these special groups.
During the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic, in order to avoid crowds gathering, many hospitals in Guangzhou have taken control measures, and at the same time set up Internet hospitals or "cloud clinics".
At the same time, Guangzhou has opened 236 "24-hour hotlines for social workers" to provide psychological counseling, emergency assistance and other services for people in need.
When Xie Minshan, director of the Guihuayuan Community Neighborhood Committee in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, was interviewed by reporters online, the surrounding staff were constantly assisting residents to solve problems.
What should I do if I need medical drugs in the sealed area?
Guangzhou started security services.
Cars carrying pregnant and lying-in women and key patients are driving in the closed and controlled area; after chronically ill patients receive prescriptions from the Internet hospital, pharmaceutical companies deliver the medicines they need to their homes.
If critically ill patients arrive at the hospital, the hospital will arrange a "green channel".
Under the epidemic, Guangzhou implemented "online teaching".
In order to facilitate the work of epidemic prevention personnel on the front line, Guangzhou Panyu District Central Hospital has set up a "custodial class" in the hospital, and social workers with experience in preschool education have arranged morning exercises, painting, music and other courses for the children.
In the control area, young people from Hong Kong made cakes for "little birthday stars" to celebrate their birthdays; 65-year-old Chinese-Americans wrote a thank you letter to thank the volunteers for their enthusiastic help; the grandfather in a wheelchair tested nucleic acid, and the long stairs helped everyone; some residents spontaneously Order takeaway for the staff...
On April 9, after Guangzhou notified all staff to carry out nucleic acid testing, many citizens bought a large number of daily necessities out of the mentality of "preparing for nothing."
In this regard, Guangzhou has launched a mechanism for ensuring the supply of daily necessities. Merchants dispatch and replenish goods through various parties, and couriers deliver orders according to relevant requirements.
"The material problem caused by insufficient transportation capacity needs to be solved urgently. If there is a delay in delivery, I hope to get the understanding of users." A person in charge of an e-commerce platform said.
On April 12, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University once again sent a nucleic acid sampling medical team of 800 people to Yuexiu District and other places to carry out sampling work.
Photo courtesy of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
In this warm city, there are countless ordinary citizens who guard their common home.
In the past few days, the reporter found that the new cases were mainly concentrated in the key control areas by sorting out the new positive infections. On the 12th, the newly confirmed local cases and local asymptomatic infections in Guangzhou were found in Baiyun District, which is different from the previously announced. The case or the place where the clustered outbreak occurred.
Zhang Zhoubin, a spokesman for the Guangzhou Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press conference on the 12th that when the epidemic was first discovered, it had been hidden for a period of time.
Although a nucleic acid screening of all employees in the city has been launched before, it cannot be ruled out that there are still hidden transmission chains that have not been discovered. The next few days are very critical, "Everyone must participate in this battle and join hands to fight the epidemic. ".
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