(Fighting against New Crown Pneumonia) China's "epidemic": Wuhan's "closing the city", how can China's "epidemic" win the "defense war"?
China News Service, Beijing, May 18 Question: China remembers the "epidemic": Wuhan "closes the city". How can the Chinese war "epidemic" win the "defense war"?
China News Agency reporter Xing Chong
On the eve of New Year's Day 2020, Wuhan found a case of unexplained pneumonia, a coronavirus that has never been found in humans before. As of 24:00 on January 21, 440 cases of new coronary pneumonia have been reported in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) nationwide. The epidemic has spread.
Data map: January 23, the empty Wuhan high-speed rail station. China News reporter Xia Chunping
On January 23, the eve of the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival in China, the Lihan Passage was closed. The isolation of a city with nine provinces and a population of over 10 million is unprecedented in human history and urban development.
The day before, China ’s top leader Xi Jinping personally made this strategic decision. He emphasized: “It takes a lot of political courage to make this decision, but it must be shot when it is done, otherwise it will be unstoppable and violent.”
From midwinter to early summer, China's epidemic prevention and control has now stabilized and improved. Looking back at this "Wuhan Defence War", the "Fengcheng" initiative has increasingly shown its decisiveness and its role and significance.
After the "closure of the city", Wuhan quickly became the main battlefield of the nation's anti-epidemic disease. With the rallying of the number, the manpower and material resources were mobilized urgently. China used its national strength to race against time and fight the virus.
Since January 24, more than 340 medical teams and 42,000 medical personnel have been sent to Hubei to bring high-precision equipment such as ventilators and ECMO (extracorporeal membrane lung oxygenation). The best medical teams are assembled here . Masks, disinfectants, vegetables and more came from all over the country to solve the shortage of various materials in Wuhan.
On January 27th, the Central Guidance Team arrived in Wuhan to supervise the battle on the ground, promote the implementation of major decisions and deployments on the front line, coordinate the epidemic prevention forces of all parties, and "sword" against inaction, indiscriminate actions, and non-responsibility. .
On the day of "Fengcheng", the 1,000-bed Vulcan Hill Hospital started construction, and patients began to be treated ten days later; fifteen days, the 1600-bed Raytheon Hill Hospital rose to the ground; one and a half a day, 16 square cabin hospitals in the gym The conference and exhibition center was quickly built to provide more than 13,000 beds for mild patients.
Whether it is a centralized hospital or a square cabin hospital, from design to completion, from hardware to software, all industries and industries across China are mobilized urgently, which greatly eases the bed gap in the front line of Wuhan.
At the same time, Zhong Nanshan, Li Lanjuan, Wang Chen and other top Chinese experts retrograde to Wuhan, strengthen the consultation and treatment of complex critical illnesses, explore new drugs and therapies, and inject "cardiotonics" into medical treatment.
Wuhan wins Hubei wins, Hubei wins nationwide wins. On February 14th, the Central Guidance Group issued a mobilization order, and the overall defense of Wuhan and Hubei was officially launched.
The epidemic is like fire, and the military order is like a mountain. More than 4,500 grass-roots party members and cadres and workers in Wuhan have sunk to 13,800 "grids", and 19,000 police officers have strengthened their duty, becoming the forefront of prevention and control, and building a line of defense against the epidemic.
On February 17th, Wuhan opened a second screening test. On the 21st, it completed the screening of the nucleic acid detection stocks of the "four types of personnel". Subsequently, the hospitals and isolation points of the "four types of personnel" were treated as "beds and others." Was gradually digested.
After more than a month of "closing the city", the epidemic situation in Wuhan has clearly improved. On March 10th, all cabins in the cabins were closed, the newly confirmed cases on March 11 were reduced to single digits for the first time, the number of suspected cases was cleared for the first time on March 17, and the number of newly diagnosed cases was achieved for the first time on March 18 In the next 20 days, there was only one confirmed patient on each of the two days. The spread of the epidemic in Wuhan ’s main battlefield was basically blocked.
The economic defense battle also began. On March 28, the China-Europe train (Wuhan) resumed normal operation; as of April 4, the operating rate of industrial enterprises above designated size in Wuhan was 97.2%, and the resumption rate of service enterprises above designated size was 93.2%. According to Wuhan officials, the work of resuming production and resuming production is faster than expected and better than expected.
At 0:00 on April 8, after 76 days and nights, Wuhan "restarted", marking a major stage victory in the "Wuhan Defence War" of epidemic prevention and control.
After the "unblocking" of Wuhan, the role and significance of this defense war has been demonstrated by many scientific research institutes.
Lin Xihong, a professor of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and his team studied about 32,000 patients with new coronary pneumonia in Wuhan, and believed that thanks to interventions, the number of effective viral infections fell from 3.88 before Wuhan ’s “closure” It was 0.32 on the 17th and fell to 0.1 on March 8.
"Nature" magazine published a study on May 4th that the multi-national research team in China, Britain and the United States found through modeling that if there is no strong non-pharmacological intervention "combination boxing" (ie intercity travel restrictions, early identification and isolation, contact restrictions and Social alienation), China's new cases of coronary pneumonia may increase 67 times, more than 7 million people.
"China's decision to block Wuhan in the face of an emergency is very decisive." Houghton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, publicly praised Wuhan's "closing city" action more than once. He said it was a correct decision and gave the world time to respond. The new coronary pneumonia epidemic also showed countries how to respond to the urgent threat of the epidemic.
At present, China has begun to fully restore normal social life order. According to a survey conducted by the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Wuhan ranks first among the cities most wanted by Chinese netizens after the epidemic. Hubei netizens also want to travel to areas that were once supported by counterparts. The people of Hubei and people in other regions are getting closer.
The whole country has played a game of chess. Facts have proved that the "Defense War in Wuhan" is a victory in a people's war. "Fast speed and large scale are rare in the world." This is the evaluation of China's anti-epidemic by Tan Desai, Director-General of WHO. As he said, the reversal of the epidemic lies in China's speed, China's scale, and China's efficiency. Wuhan's "closing the city" is the key move. (Finish)