Chinanews client, Beijing, January 8th (Reporter Zhang Ni) On the 7th, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province’s epidemic prevention and control press conference revealed that the No. 5 Hospital of Shijiazhuang City has vacated and is fully committed to treating patients with new coronary pneumonia.
At the same time, people and vehicles in Shijiazhuang are not out of the city.
From the report of the first local confirmed case on the 2nd to the 7th, in just 6 days, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Hebei has exceeded 120, and most of them are concentrated in Shijiazhuang.
The epidemic strikes. For Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital with a population of tens of millions, after entering the "wartime state", how should this battle be fought?
The picture shows medical staff performing nucleic acid sampling for citizens.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
Over 100 cases of virus confirmed in 6 days still point to overseas
According to an official report from the Hebei Provincial Health Commission, on the 7th, Hebei Province added 33 new confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia, of which 31 were reported in Shijiazhuang City.
On the same day, Hebei also added 39 local asymptomatic infections, of which 35 cases were reported in Shijiazhuang City.
From the 2nd to the 7th, in just 6 days, Shijiazhuang City has reported over 100 local confirmed cases and more than 100 asymptomatic infections.
The rapid development of the epidemic has aroused national attention.
What is even more alarming is that, unlike previous waves where the epicenter was mainly concentrated in cities, this time, rural areas have become a high concentration of cases.
From the 2nd to the 5th, among the 39 newly confirmed cases in Hebei, 34 were from 6 villages in Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, accounting for nearly 90%.
On the 5th day, all 19 newly confirmed cases in Shijiazhuang came from Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District.
From the point of view of the source of the virus, existing evidence shows that the source of this wave of epidemic viruses in Hebei still points to overseas!
On the evening of the 6th, Xingtai City held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Deng Suxue, deputy mayor of Xingtai City, introduced that on January 3, the first batch of nucleic acid samples from the three confirmed patients will be sent by the Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Go to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out gene sequencing. According to the results of the feedback on the morning of January 6, the spread of the virus is highly homologous to the imported virus in Europe and has epidemiological links, thus clarifying the epidemiological pathway of this epidemic.
According to reports, the disease control department has carried out traceability work in four aspects: transmission caused by overseas cases, transmission caused by frozen food packaging/goods, the possibility of infection in other places, and transmission caused by local cases.
Through methods such as circulation adjustment and big data, using epidemic + pathogenic means, it is determined that the virus is not a local virus, but is still imported from abroad.
In addition, the new coronavirus found in Nangong Xingtai is highly homologous to the new coronavirus found in Shijiazhuang, and there is an epidemiological link between the Nangong City case and the Shijiazhuang City case.
Looking at the only high-risk area in the country, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Zengcun Town, where the first confirmed case occurred in this area, is close to Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport and High-speed Railway Zhengding Airport Station.
Feng Zijian, deputy director of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also publicly stated that the number of patients is still increasing, indicating that the virus has been spreading in secret for some time.
All this reminds us: in the face of the current epidemic, we must not take it lightly!
On January 7, a staff member at the Shijiazhuang Railway Station in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province was on duty.
It is understood that starting from January 6, Shijiazhuang Railway Station has implemented temporary strict prevention and control measures, and all passengers will be suspended from entering the station.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
How to deal with cases where cases are highly concentrated in weak links in rural prevention and control?
While there have been a large number of confirmed cases in a short period of time, a question that the outside world is worried about is: The epidemic is highly concentrated in rural areas. Will this become a weak link in epidemic prevention and control?
According to the official itinerary of multiple confirmed cases, the activities of confirmed cases in Shijiazhuang and Xingtai include hospitals, schools, restaurants, supermarkets, factories and other places. Many confirmed cases have attended weddings, full moon banquets, etc. activity.
Ren Weihong, director of the Xingtai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a press conference earlier that there was a local epidemic in Nangong City, Xingtai. This epidemic had a rapid onset, showing the characteristics of family, unit clusters, and epidemiological associations among cases.
Although rural population mobility is lower than that in urban areas, the return of migrant workers and the numerous rural banquets at the end of the year are inevitable hidden risks. The gathering of large numbers of people increases the risk of virus transmission and pressure on prevention and control.
"The risk of virus transmission in rural areas is greater." Wu Hao, an expert on the Advisory Committee for Disease Control and Prevention of the National Health Commission, once gave such a judgment.
According to experts, rural medical conditions are relatively poor and publicity coverage is narrow. Residents are mostly elderly and children. Their personal protection awareness and health knowledge are not as good as urban residents, so they are more vulnerable to virus threats.
In addition, there have been many severe cases in this epidemic.
In this regard, Wu Hao analyzed that most of the cases found in the city were asymptomatic and confirmed by regular screening, with mild symptoms. However, many of the confirmed cases of the Hebei epidemic were elderly people over 60 years old.
This means that the pathogenicity rate of the virus may not be reduced. Therefore, it is necessary to implement the "four-early principle" of epidemic prevention in rural areas as soon as possible to cut off the source of transmission.
On January 6, the local police were diverting vehicles at the exit of a highway in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
Self-isolation, containment loopholes... "Alerts" have been fully sounded
In the past few days, in Hebei, which has entered a wartime state, especially in Shijiazhuang, the epicenter of the epidemic, the "alarm" of epidemic prevention and control has been sounded.
The first is large-scale nucleic acid detection.
Shijiazhuang began to conduct nucleic acid testing for all employees in the city from the early morning of the 6th.
According to the plan, the test will cover 11 million people in the city in three days.
Starting from the 5th, nearly 7,000 staff in Gaocheng District, together with more than 1,500 medical staff and police officers rushing to assist from various places, began to implement the whole district in batches in accordance with the principle of first near and far, safe and orderly. Nucleic acid amplification testing.
According to Meng Xianghong, deputy mayor of Shijiazhuang City, introduced on the 7th, in the nucleic acid test for all employees in Shijiazhuang, as of 12:00 on the 7th, more than 6.1 million nucleic acid samples were collected in Shijiazhuang, more than 2.41 million people were tested, and 11 new cases were positive.
At the same time, areas with severe epidemics such as Shijiazhuang have begun a "self-isolation" model.
All vehicles and personnel in Shijiazhuang City will not leave the city. The Fifth Hospital of Shijiazhuang City is vacated to treat patients. Closed-loop control is implemented in all communities. Offline teaching is suspended in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens. "Red matters" are postponed and "white matters" are simplified. Scenic spots Temporarily closed... In the past few days, the authorities have taken a series of urgent measures to contain the possible risk of the spread of the epidemic.
In addition, another problem has been exposed in this wave of epidemic prevention and control requirements are not strictly implemented.
On January 3, after the epidemic had broken out, another villager in Liujiazuo Village who had a nucleic acid test out of control went out for medical treatment.
In this regard, the official also has a clear attitude-ineffective prevention and control must be held accountable!
In the early morning of the 7th, the official WeChat of Shijiazhuang Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Feng Zhiqiang, deputy head of Gaocheng District Government and deputy commander of the District Emergency Command, Nie Xiaonan, director of the Administrative Comprehensive Service Center of Zengcun Town, Gaocheng District, and Baocun Cadre of Liujiazuo Village, Liujiazuo Village Party branch secretary Sun Guohui and others were held accountable for ineffective epidemic prevention and control.
The report stated that Feng Zhiqiang was given a warning within the party; Nie Xiaonan was given a serious warning within the party; and Sun Guohui was given a serious warning within the party.
There is ample supply of vegetables in the Shijiazhuang market.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Huang Xinyao
Reserve supplies, daily necessities... Shijiazhuang is fully committed to guaranteeing the supply
"At present, the epidemic situation in Hebei is still in the development stage, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control is severe."
This is the judgment made by Ma Xiaowei, director of the National Health Commission.
On January 5, Ma Xiaowei and his party arrived in Hebei to guide the epidemic prevention and control work.
Obviously, for Hebei, there is still a tough battle to be fought in the future, and local governments are well prepared to deal with it.
From 0:00 on the 6th, Shijiazhuang City has taken a number of control measures.
In addition to conducting nucleic acid testing for all employees, in order to ensure the normal life needs of residents during the closed-loop control of nucleic acid testing, Shijiazhuang has stocked daily necessities such as grains, oils, meat, eggs, milk, vegetables, etc., initiated subsidies for Chinese cabbage, and opened the transportation of daily necessities. Through the Provincial Department of Commerce, we will specially deploy fresh vegetables in large quantities from surrounding provinces and cities to ensure market supply.
In addition, Shijiazhuang also organized relevant departments to carry out law enforcement inspections, severely cracked down on taking the opportunity to raise prices, hoarding and other behaviors to maintain market stability.
At the same time, for communities with inconvenient purchases, special distribution methods are adopted to ensure that the citizens' lives are worry-free.
In terms of medical supplies reserves, Shijiazhuang has already stored medical supplies, medicines, protective equipment, disinfection supplies and other medical supplies in accordance with the requirements of full capacity operation for 30 days, which can be supplied with sufficient quality according to demand.
At the same time, Shijiazhuang also mobilized the city’s 133 key medical material production companies for epidemic prevention and control, increased production lines, and started full-scale production. The daily output of masks rose from 800,000 to more than 4 million. The daily production capacity of throat swabs has been fully improved to ensure daily life. Need for prevention, control and detection.
Official data show that by the end of 2019, Shijiazhuang has jurisdiction over 8 districts, 11 counties, 2 county-level cities, and 2 national-level development zones, with a permanent population of 10.3942 million.
For this big city with a population of tens of millions, this battle must be won.
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