(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Visiting Zengcun Towns "During the Epidemic": Professional institutions have completed the first round of environmental elimination in 20 villages

  China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 15th. Title: Visiting Zengcun Towns "During the Epidemic": Professional agencies completed the first round of environmental destruction in 20 villages

  Translated by China News Agency reporter Luda Wang Tian

  On the morning of the 15th, in Xiaoguozhuang Village, Zengcun Town, Li Zengtao, a firefighter in protective clothing, wore an isolation mask and heavy disinfection equipment on his back. He brought four comrades to the 204 Provincial Highway from Beiqiaozhai Village to Zengcun. Disinfect the area along the route.

  Li Zengtao said that on the 13th, after the residents of more than ten villages in Zengcun Town were transferred to centralized resettlement, the local area had cut off water and electricity to these villages, and their task was also changed from ensuring fire safety to disinfection and protection along the 204 National Road Zengcun.

  In the morning of the same day, a reporter from China News Agency saw at the scene that although the villagers had evacuated, isolation steel plates were still installed at the entrances of the villages, and the shops and vehicles facing the street were sealed.

Along Provincial Highway 204, there are still several checkpoints set up by the police to interrogate passing vehicles.

  On the 14th, the Shijiazhuang Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters Office announced the "Global Disinfection Work Plan for the Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus in Gaocheng District."

It is mentioned in the "Plan" that the final disinfection of the homes of confirmed patients and asymptomatic infected persons and the environmental disinfection of Zengcun towns shall be implemented by the Gaocheng District government commissioned by a third-party disinfection service agency.

On the day of the release of the "Plan", the first environmental eradication work in Zengcun Town was fully launched.

  Shi Guangyuan, the manager of Shijiazhuang Buckler Pest Control Co., Ltd., who is responsible for the environmental elimination task in Zengcun Town, told reporters that as a third-party organization, on the morning of the 14th, they followed the 20 villages under the control of the epidemic prevention and control center in Zengcun Town. The concrete plan of environmental elimination work began the elimination work.

  "The company organized 30 professional and technical personnel, under the on-site guidance of the Chinese disease control expert group, from 8 a.m. until late at night, to all public areas of these 20 villages, including the waste piled outdoors by the villagers and the garbage in the village. Wait, the first round of complete elimination was carried out very carefully." Shi Guangyuan said that as of this morning, the first round of environmental elimination in 20 villages has been completed, and the second round of elimination has now begun.

  Shi Guangyuan said that according to the plan formulated by the Epidemic Prevention Command Center, these villages are expected to be disinfected once or twice a day for 20 days.

  Shi Guangyuan said that the staff are currently communicating with the villagers who need to enter their homes to kill. After obtaining the villagers' consent, they will start the final disinfection of the sick home while the environment is being killed.

  According to the Hebei Provincial Health Commission, since the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia was found in Xiaoguozhuang Village, Zengcun Town on January 2, as of 24:00 on January 14, there are currently 553 local confirmed cases in Hebei Province (17 severe cases, 471 cases of common type, 65 cases of light type), and 2 confirmed imported cases (common type).

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