(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) China remembers "epidemic": "thing" remembers Chinese war epidemic
China News Agency, Beijing, June 1st, Question: China remembers "epidemic": "things" remember China's war epidemic
Author Li Jingze Wang Zumin
China's epidemic prevention and control has entered a normal stage. In the past four months or so, some "events" that have been deeply imprinted in people's memories may become the fulcrum of the Chinese epidemic.
——The outbreak alarm sounded, and the “New Crown Virus” was initially determined to be the pathogen of the outbreak.
At the end of December 2019, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Surveillance found cases of unexplained pneumonia. From January 3, 2020, China will regularly communicate with the World Health Organization, relevant national and regional organizations, and China ’s Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions in a timely and proactive manner, and begin to regularly inform the United States of the epidemic information and prevention and control measures.
On January 9, the expert assessment team of the National Health and Health Commission released information on the etiology of unexplained viral pneumonia in Wuhan. The pathogen was initially determined to be a new coronavirus.
——Wuhan "closed the city" to curb the spread of the epidemic nationwide.
In the early morning of January 23, the Wuhan Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters issued Circular No. 1: From 10 am on that day, the city's urban buses, subways, ferries, and long-distance passenger transportation were suspended; the airport and railway station departure passages from Han were temporarily closed.
The "closure of the city" in Wuhan for 76 days has contained the spread of the epidemic throughout the country and has become a key move for China to achieve major strategic results in the war epidemic.
——Vulcan Mountain, Raytheon Mountain and Square Cabin Hospital were built at "China Speed".
On the day of the closure of Wuhan, the Vulcan Hill Hospital announced its construction; three days later, the Thunder Mountain Hospital project was launched on fire. Under the "Cloud Supervisor" of more than 60 million netizens, both received patients 10 days later. Subsequently, the reconstruction of 16 square cabin hospitals was completed, and with the temporary increase of beds in other hospitals, all designated and square cabin hospitals in Wuhan provided nearly 40,000 beds. The war and the Hubei Defence War launched an important guarantee for the offensive and decisive victory.
——Nationwide support, Hubei and Wuhan became the main battlefields of China's war epidemic.
On New Year's Eve (January 24), the First Support E-Medical Team arrived in Wuhan, kicking off the prelude to 346 medical teams and more than 42,000 medical personnel across the country. During this period, Chinese officials coordinated arrangements for 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) to support 16 cities, prefectures and county-level cities in Hubei except Wuhan.
At the same time, high-precision equipment, epidemic prevention and living resources are constantly gathered here, becoming a vivid portrayal of China's unanimous battle against the epidemic.
——The epidemic situation covers the whole country, and all 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) have initiated primary response to major public health emergencies.
On January 28, Tibet reported a confirmed case, and the epidemic has covered the whole country. On January 29, all 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) initiated a first-level response to major public health emergencies.
From late January to early February, the national epidemic situation experienced an explosive growth. Except for Wuhan, Huanggang and Xiaogan in Hubei Province were in a state of urgency. Outside Hubei Province, cases of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Henan, and Hunan surged. This period also became the "most strenuous" stage of the war epidemic in China.
——The War of Defence in Wuhan and the War of Defence in Hubei have successively launched a comprehensive general offensive and decisive victory.
On February 14th, the Central Guidance Group issued a mobilization order, and the overall defense of Wuhan and Hubei was officially launched. On March 4, Chen Yixin, deputy head of the Central Steering Group and Secretary-General of the Central Political and Law Commission, pointed out that the epidemic prevention and control situation in Wuhan showed a continuous upward trend, and Wuhan's defense battle entered a decisive victory.
On March 18, Wuhan achieved zero reports of newly confirmed cases for the first time. In the 21 days to April 7, there were no newly confirmed cases except for one confirmed case on each of the two days.
——China held a nationwide mourning event to mourn the martyrs and dead compatriots who died on the front line of the fight against the epidemic.
April 4 is the Qingming Festival of Chinese traditional spring festival. From 10:00 on that day, the people of the whole country mourned for 3 minutes, cars, trains, and ships whistle, and air defense alarms sounded. This is the fourth national mourning event since the founding of New China and the first time that a national mourning has been initiated due to a major public health emergency.
As of April 3, 3326 people had died of new coronary pneumonia in mainland China, including medical staff, public security officers, community workers and other martyrs who died in the front line.
——Wuhan "unblocked", China's war epidemic has achieved major stage results.
At 0:00 on April 8th, Wuhan lifted the traffic control of Lihan transportation and resumed external traffic in an orderly manner. The personnel of Han transportation flowed safely and orderly with the Hubei health code "green code".
On March 25, Hubei took the lead in "unsealing" except Wuhan; Wuhan was reduced to a low-risk area on April 18, and by May 7, all counties in the country were adjusted to low-risk areas; In Hubei province, the emergency response level of public health emergencies was adjusted from first-level response to second-level. So far, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) of the country have all cancelled first-level responses.
——The global epidemic situation continues to spread, and "importing foreign defense, rebounding internal defense" has become a new challenge for China's epidemic prevention and control.
On February 26, mainland China reported the first imported case overseas. On April 5, there were 693 confirmed cases imported overseas, surpassing the existing local confirmed cases (606 cases). As of May 30, a total of 1,740 imported cases have been reported nationwide, including 1,692 cured cases, 48 currently diagnosed cases, and no deaths.
At the same time, there are clustered epidemics and sporadic cases in a few areas of China. As of now, Shulan City and Fengman District of Jilin City, Jilin Province, Dongxihu District of Wuhan City, Sujiatun District of Shenyang City, Chuanying District, Changchun City The Yi District and the High-tech Zone have been successively adjusted to high and medium risk areas.
—— From emergency state to normalized prevention and control, the resumption of production and production was fully promoted.
On the occasion of the “unblocking” in Wuhan, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to deploy and implement measures to prevent and control normalized epidemic situations, and comprehensively promote the resumption of production and production. On May 7, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued the “Guiding Opinions on Doing a Good Job in the Prevention and Control of Normalization of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Situation”, which proposed 5 aspects of the prevention and control of normalization. Measures.
At present, the overwhelming majority of institutions, enterprises and schools in China have resumed production and returned to school, and have gradually restored normal production and living order.
——The two national conferences were postponed.
Affected by the epidemic situation, on February 24, Chinese officials decided to postpone the two sessions of the country that were originally scheduled to be held in early March.
On May 21, the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opened in Beijing; on 22nd, the third session of the 13th National People's Congress was held in Beijing. At the opening meeting of the two sessions, special sessions were set up: all the participants stood in silence and paid tribute to the victims of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. (Finish)