China News Service, Haikou, August 8th: The number of infected people in Hainan exceeds 1,000 in a week: the "static" and "moving" of epidemic prevention and control
Author Zhang Yuehe
It has been a week since the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia was found in Sanya, Hainan on August 1. As of 12:00 on the 7th, Hainan has reported a total of 1,140 positive infections in this round of epidemic.
Faced with the severe prevention and control situation, Hainan, on the one hand, strictly controlled the spread of the epidemic through multi-city static management, and on the other hand, accelerated the speed of nucleic acid screening, and made every effort to do a good job in centralized isolation and medical treatment.
Jing: To prevent the epidemic from spilling over to many cities, press the "pause button"
"The community spread of this round of epidemic is relatively wide, and the epidemic has formed a certain scale and is still on the rise, and it is showing an expanding trend." Li Wenxiu, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Health Commission, introduced on the 7th that the current epidemic situation in Hainan is developing rapidly, only at 0:00 on the 7th As of 12:00, 182 local new coronavirus positive infections were reported.
The Omicron variant BA5.1.3 of Hainan's current round of epidemic strains was discovered for the first time in China, with strong concealment and high infectivity.
In just one week, Hainan has reported a total of 827 confirmed cases and 313 asymptomatic infections.
Sanya, the city with the worst epidemic, has 689 confirmed cases and 282 asymptomatic infections, which are still in a period of high growth.
As of 10:00 on August 7, Hainan announced 223 high-risk areas and 122 medium-risk areas.
In order to prevent the further spread of the epidemic, Hainan Duocheng pressed the "pause button" in time.
Sanya City has implemented temporary global static management since 6:00 on the 6th. In addition to ensuring basic social operation services, epidemic prevention and control, and emergency special circumstances, the city-wide restrictions on the movement of people and suspension of urban public transportation.
Since then, cities and counties such as Lingshui, Danzhou, Wanning, and Qionghai have successively implemented global static management.
At present, all outbound flights at Sanya Phoenix Airport have been cancelled (including early cancellations), all motor train tickets in and out of Sanya and Lingshui have been suspended, and many scenic spots and duty-free shops have been suspended.
In the peak summer tourist season, the sudden outbreak of the epidemic has brought many inconveniences to tourists.
Liu Cheng, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports, said that as of August 6, there were 58,900 people staying overnight in operating hotels in Sanya, including 25,000 stranded tourists.
"Hainan has taken measures in terms of accommodation, catering, epidemic prevention and control, and material security for stranded tourists, and resolutely put an end to the phenomenon that tourists have nowhere to stay and hotels drive guests away." Li Wenxiu said that Hainan has introduced measures to relieve and appease tourists.
Haikou City conducted urban and rural nucleic acid testing on the 7th.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
Action: Many provinces and cities support nucleic acid for all employees to speed up "chasing the sun"
At the beginning of the current round of the epidemic, some cities and counties in Hainan carried out nucleic acid testing.
In order to detect positive infections as soon as possible, Hainan Province has launched nucleic acid testing for all employees in the province since the 7th. Haikou City has carried out the first nucleic acid testing in urban and rural areas. In order to speed up the detection of positive infections in mixed tubes, Sanya has established "Chasing Yang". The Rangers quickly checked and locked the source of infection to gain more time for epidemic prevention and control.
Due to the ferocious outbreak of the epidemic and the shortage of medical resources in Hainan, the speed of positive screening of mixed tubes has been affected.
Li Wenxiu said that at present, 15 provinces and cities including Guangdong and Shanghai have a daily nucleic acid detection capacity of 1.99 million tubes and 5,000 sampling personnel from 5 provinces and cities have rushed to Hainan.
After urgent action, Sanya, the core area of the epidemic, has comprehensively improved its ability to handle all aspects of the epidemic.
Ji Duanrong, Secretary-General of Sanya Municipal Government, said on the 7th that Sanya will increase the reserve capacity of isolation points and makeshift hospitals, among which the number of isolation hotel rooms will increase from 11,000 to 25,000, and the construction of the second makeshift hospital will also be accelerated. Completed before the 11th.
It is worth noting that the proportion of newly infected people in Hainan is gradually increasing, and the symptoms of infected people are mild, and there are no severe or critical cases.
Li Wenxiu said that Hainan will continue to strictly control the outflow of people, speed up the improvement of nucleic acid detection and epidemiological investigation capabilities, do its best to focus on isolation and medical treatment, block the source of overseas import risks, and do a good job in hospital protection to ensure that people are normal. The demand for medical treatment will not be affected, and we will do our best to win the battle of epidemic prevention and control.
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