China News Service, Beijing, July 18, Guangxi Beihai, a famous seaside tourist city, has continued to become the focus of public opinion because of the sudden epidemic.
Since July 12, the number of new infections in the North Sea has exceeded 500.
On the 17th, Guangxi put forward a prevention and control target referred to as "79144", and required to coordinate the forces of the whole region to resolutely win the battle of annihilation of the North Sea epidemic prevention and control.
On the afternoon of July 17, Beihai City, Guangxi carried out the fifth round of nucleic acid testing for all employees in the region.
Photo by Zhai Liqiang
More than 500 new infections in 6 days
The current round of epidemic situation in Guangxi was first reported on July 12, when the first asymptomatic infection was confirmed in Haicheng District, Beihai City.
In the following days, the North Sea epidemic developed rapidly.
Among them, on the 16th, Beihai added 9 new local confirmed cases and 232 local asymptomatic infections.
On the 18th, Guangxi updated the epidemic data. On the 17th, the newly confirmed local cases and asymptomatic infections in Beihai were "59+51". Among them, 31 asymptomatic infections among the confirmed cases were converted into confirmed cases.
As of 24:00 on July 17, there were 68 local confirmed cases and 463 local asymptomatic infections in Beihai.
According to reports from Beihai City, the first reported case of the "7.12 epidemic" in the city was infected with Omicron BA.2.3, and no genome sequence with high homology to the local and imported cases in Guangxi was found, nor was it found to be related to other provinces in China. Genome sequences with high homology in cases.
Since 7:00 on the 16th, Beihai City has implemented zoning control, dividing parts of Haicheng District and Yinhai District as red zones, and implementing closure and control measures.
On the 16th, the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Team, headed by Li Bin, Deputy Director of the National Health Commission, arrived in Beihai.
Beihai Maritime Safety Administration will guide passengers to board the ship safely and orderly.
Image source: Beihai Maritime WeChat public account
Tourist resorts respond to sudden outbreaks
Beihai City is located in the south of Guangxi and on the northeast coast of Beibu Gulf. It has Yintan, known as "the first beach in the world", and Weizhou Island, one of China's "Top Ten Beautiful Islands". It is a famous seaside tourist city in the country.
According to data from a homestay platform, in the first week of July, Beihai was included in the top ten cities for summer homestay reservations on the platform.
The tourist city ushered in the peak summer season, which also increased the difficulty of preventing and controlling the epidemic in Beihai.
Beihai announced on the evening of the 14th that from that day on, all A-level tourist attractions in the city will be temporarily closed.
On Weizhou Island, according to the news released by "Beihai Maritime" on the 16th, from 09:00 on July 14 to 19:50 on July 15, the Beihai Maritime Safety Administration coordinated a total of 45 ships to participate in the evacuation to protect the passengers stranded on the island. Nearly 20,000 people returned to Beihai safely.
The Beihai Epidemic Press Conference on the 17th revealed that there are currently more than 2,000 tourists stranded in Beihai. In response to the problems reported by the stranded tourists, Beihai City has set up a special class for tourism services in a timely manner to fully carry out service and guarantee work.
According to the work arrangement, tourists are divided into two categories. The first category is the stranded tourists who have not been to medium and high-risk areas, non-intensive, non-sub-intensive, and whose health code is green. They can bring a 48-hour nucleic acid test negative report. Accommodation certificates (or other credentials that can prove that they are tourists) are allowed to return; the second category is tourists who have been to medium and high-risk areas or are close or sub-close, and the health code is red code or yellow code. Prevention and control requirements, do a good job of control and isolation, and arrange a return trip after meeting the return trip requirements.
According to a report by Beihai Daily, on July 10, Ms. Yang, a tourist, spent 3,000 yuan to book a room at a homestay in Weizhou Island on July 14.
Affected by the epidemic, on July 13, Ms. Yang negotiated a refund with the merchant, and the merchant only agreed to refund 80% of the room fee totaling 2,400 yuan.
Ms. Yang believes that the sudden outbreak is a force majeure and is not a breach of contract due to personal reasons. The merchant should not deduct 20% of the room fee and should refund the room fee in full. Then Ms. Yang reported to the Beihai Market Supervision and Administration Bureau that the bureau communicated and coordinated with the merchants. , the merchant has refunded the room fee in full to Ms. Yang.
At present, Beihai has required that if travelers need to cancel their hotel and homestay reservations due to the epidemic, any merchant shall not refuse to fulfill the requirements of epidemic prevention and control deployment in the name of "non-refundable advance payment" or "deduction of deposit", and each business unit must unconditionally pay the full amount. Refund.
On the afternoon of July 17, Beihai City, Guangxi carried out the fifth round of nucleic acid testing for all employees in the region.
Photo by Zhai Liqiang
Prevention and control target: "79144"
From the observation of Guangxi, this round of epidemic in Guangxi has spread to Beihai, Nanning, Guilin, Hezhou, Chongzuo and other cities.
"Guangxi Daily" reported that on the 17th, Guangxi held a video scheduling meeting for national district and municipal epidemic prevention and control work. The meeting was attended by Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Lan Lanli, Chairman of the Autonomous Region, and others. Li Bin, deputy director of the committee, attended the meeting at the Beihai branch.
The meeting mentioned that at present, the epidemic situation in Beihai City is in a period of rapid rise, and the situation is extremely severe and complicated.
It is necessary to deeply reflect on the problem, adhere to the problem orientation, compare the problems reported by the comprehensive group of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council to the Guangxi working group one by one, and do a good job in rectification and implementation.
The meeting demanded to throw away fantasies and take the initiative.
We must resolutely put an end to the mentality of fluke, work hard, fight tenaciously, handle scientifically, be precise and efficient, and "do all the inspections that should be checked, turn everything that should be turned around, isolate everything that should be done, and treat everything that should be treated."
The meeting also mentioned a goal: to strive to achieve the goal of dynamically clearing social aspects in 7 days, controlling new cases to single digits in 9 days, eliminating high-risk areas in 14 days, and dynamically adjusting the “79144” prevention and control goals of regional management and control in the fourth day.
It is worth mentioning that the meeting also "informed the decision on accountability".
On the evening of the 17th, Guangxi officially announced that the new crown pneumonia epidemic occurred on July 12 in Haicheng District, Beihai City, and it spread. In the prevention and control of the epidemic, due to insufficient attention to work, weak awareness of risks, inappropriate measures, ineffective performance of duties, and failure to implement responsibilities, the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region decided to dismiss Su Kuangfeng and Tang Gang.
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