China News Agency, March 6th. According to the official Weibo news from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment notified the state of medical waste, medical wastewater treatment and environmental monitoring on the 6th. Data show that since January 20, a total of 123,000 tons of medical waste have been disposed of throughout the country.
As of March 3, 2020, the national medical waste disposal capacity was 5948.5 tons / day, an increase of 1045.7 tons / day compared with 4902.8 tons / day before the epidemic. Among them, the capacity of Hubei Province increased from 180 tons / day before the epidemic to 663.7 tons / day, and the capacity of Wuhan City increased from 50 tons / day before the epidemic to 261.7 tons / day.
On March 3, a total of 3135.7 tons of medical waste was collected nationwide, of which 570.4 tons of medical waste were sent to designated medical institutions; 3157.7 tons of medical waste were disposed of on the same day (including 22.0 tons of temporary storage the day before). All waste is transferred and disposed of in a timely manner. The entire day of Hubei Province collecting 401.0 tons of medical waste was disposed of. 209.7 tons of medical waste generated in Wuhan were collected, transported and disposed of on the same day. As of March 2, all the 192 tons of medical waste accumulated in Wuhan in the previous period have been cleared, transported and disposed of.
There are 2767 designated hospitals in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, 2124 urban sewage treatment plants receiving sewage from designated hospitals, and 6,259 centralized isolation sites. Through investigation, a total of 343 problems in three major categories were found, and all rectifications were completed. At present, the treatment and disposal of medical wastewater nationwide is stable and orderly, and disinfection measures are strictly implemented.
The environmental monitoring results show that from January 20 to February 29, 2020, the automatic air monitoring results of 337 cities above the prefecture level showed that the average number of excellent days was 82.8%, and the percentage of excellent days increased by 9.7 percentage points from the same period last year. The early-warning monitoring data of 1,799 national water quality automatic stations show that compared with the same period of last year, the proportion of water quality of categories Ⅰ to Ⅲ increased by 8.4 percentage points, that of types Ⅳ and Ⅴ decreased by 5.0 percentage points, and that of inferior Ⅴ decreased by 3.4 percentage points.
A total of 11,474 drinking water sources were monitored, and no water quality situation in drinking water sources was found to be affected by epidemic prevention and control. Residual chlorine monitoring was carried out in 1,562 drinking water sources, and affected by the killing work carried out by the epidemic prevention and control. Residual chlorine in 47 drinking water sources was detected, but the concentrations were lower than the water plant effluent standard (0.3 mg / L). ), No residual chlorine was detected in other drinking water sources. Hubei Province has monitored 125 water sources, and the water quality has reached or exceeded Class III standards. The water quality of 19 drinking water sources in Wuhan all met or exceeded Class III standards.