Ask the reporter: What is the current situation of the epidemic in Erenhot?
Erenhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has reported 409 positive cases of COVID-19 in the past 9 days. The epidemic prevention and control in this port city has touched the hearts of netizens. Many netizens asked on the "Ask the Reporter" platform of the Xinhua News Agency client: How is the epidemic situation in Erenhot? ?
What prevention and control measures are currently in place?
What about the stranded people?
Xinhua News Agency reporters sorted out the latest situation of epidemic prevention and control in Erenhot.
Netizen: What is the current situation of the epidemic in Erenhot?
Reporter:
As of 24:00 on June 10, there were 167 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 278 local asymptomatic infections in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Erenhot is a key area for the current round of epidemic prevention and control in Inner Mongolia. Since the report of new local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on June 2, a total of 409 positive cases of new coronavirus infection have been reported, including 139 confirmed cases, including 1 severe, 6 cases of common type, 132 cases of mild type, and 270 cases of asymptomatic infection.
Netizen: What virus strain is this outbreak caused by?
Reporter:
The source of the virus in this round of epidemic in Erenhot City is a variant of the new coronavirus Omicron, which has the characteristics of short incubation period, strong infectivity, strong concealment, and fast transmission.
In view of the transmission characteristics of the Omicron variant, experts suggest that the general public take preventive measures: first, actively cooperate with multiple rounds of nucleic acid testing; second, wear masks carefully, pay attention to hand washing and indoor ventilation; third, pay close attention to the official announcement of positive infection If there is any intersection of the itinerary of the person and their close contacts, they will report it as soon as possible; the fourth is to standardize the disposal of domestic waste and carefully do a good job in sorting and cleaning up the waste.
Netizen: What epidemic prevention and control measures have been taken in the local area?
Reporter:
The reporter learned from an interview that Erenhot started the emergency response command system immediately after the outbreak, strictly implemented the prevention and control measures of "finding people, managing people, and curing people", and is working hard to block the epidemic as quickly as possible. transmission chain.
The first is to carry out rapid nucleic acid detection screening to find out all the positive infected persons.
Erenhot City has completed 9 rounds of nucleic acid testing, and the tenth round of nucleic acid testing in key areas began on June 11.
Focusing on the goal of completing nucleic acid sampling and testing within 24 hours, Erenhot continues to improve its testing capabilities. At present, there are nearly 1,000 sampling and testing personnel and a testing force of 30,000 tubes.
The second is to strengthen the traceability of flow regulation.
Set up a "special class for chasing the sun" to find and control the people who are positive for mixed tube tests as soon as possible, and perform apheresis and single inspection as soon as possible.
Accurately investigate and determine close contacts, so that all information on the flow investigation should be checked, and personnel should manage it, so as to eliminate the risk of transmission as quickly as possible.
The third is classified and precise management and control. Strictly implement management and control measures for people in centralized isolation and home isolation, dynamically adjust the scope of closed control areas, strengthen social management and control, and make every effort to block community transmission channels and strictly prevent the spread of the epidemic.
Erenhot City is still expanding the centralized isolation point reserve. On June 6, the construction of 1,000 prefabricated centralized isolation points was started, and it is expected to be delivered for use on June 12.
Fourth, continue to do a good job in the treatment of patients.
The reporter learned from the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Erenhot City held on June 11 that the "one person, one strategy" treatment for positive infected persons will implement combined treatment of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and give full play to traditional Chinese medicine to participate in the prevention and treatment of new coronary pneumonia. , the whole process of rehabilitation.
Netizen: Is the hospital's ability to treat patients enough?
Reporter:
In order to treat the infected people as soon as possible, Erenhot City started the construction of the second makeshift hospital on June 6, which lasted 37 hours day and night. The construction was completed at 12:00 on June 8, and it passed the acceptance of the expert group.
The second square cabin hospital has a total of 468 beds, and patients began to be treated on the morning of June 9.
Netizen: Are all kinds of local living materials sufficient?
Reporter:
Erenhot currently has sufficient reserves of various living materials.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, Erenhot immediately dispatched daily necessities such as vegetables, grains and oils, meat, eggs, and milk in the city, and launched a daily monitoring and daily dispatching system for supermarkets and enterprises to ensure stable and complete supply of goods.
At present, the average daily purchases of vegetables, meat, etc. in the three large supermarkets in Erenhot remain above 50 tons, and the inventory of living materials is sufficient.
Although there are no citizens shopping in the supermarket, the staff are still busy. They shuttle between the shelves, distribute goods according to the orders placed by citizens online, and then deliver them to the door of the community by takeaway riders.
In response to the shopping needs of residents in the sealed-off area, Erenhot has launched 3 large supermarkets, 74 emergency supply supermarkets and 33 supply-guaranteed supermarkets around the neighborhoods, using online purchases and offline contactless delivery.
Special groups such as those with limited mobility and the elderly living alone will not be able to place orders online or go out to collect supplies. The staff of the Baolian unit will provide them with services such as purchasing and home delivery on a one-to-one basis.
Netizen: How are those stranded due to the epidemic arranged?
Reporter:
After the outbreak of the epidemic in Erenhot, some herdsmen were stranded in the urban area due to the epidemic. They were worried that the cattle and sheep in the pastoral areas would be left unattended.
In this regard, Erenhot City, on the premise of ensuring people's lives, health and safety, has taken active and effective measures to solve it.
Nucleic acid testing began on June 2, and the herdsmen in the control area who have been tested negative in each round are transferred to the isolation point for centralized isolation and daily nucleic acid testing. During the isolation period, the nucleic acid test results are all negative. , will return to pastoral areas in batches and orderly, and follow-up nucleic acid testing will be done in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control.
The reporter learned that during the period when these herdsmen have not returned to the pastoral areas, each Gacha (village) has mobilized members of the two Gacha committees and herdsmen's party to take care of the livestock of the stranded herdsmen in the surrounding area and make every effort to reduce the losses of the stranded herdsmen.
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