China News Service, May 10th. Recently, Nepal, India, Maldives and other Asian countries have rebounded from the new crown epidemic, causing concern.
Faced with the continuous impact of the epidemic, all sectors of China are speeding up their actions, working together to fight the epidemic, and resolutely guarding the "epidemic prevention checkpoint" for overseas imports.
Data map: Local people are preparing to enter the Kathmandu Zoo in Nepal and need to comply with epidemic prevention measures.
Photo by Pradan issued by China News Agency
The "red light" is on: Is the epidemic overwhelming Nepal's medical system?
"The situation has been out of control and we are in a helpless situation." Rajan Pandi, a doctor in the Bank area on the border between Nepal and India, said that Nepal is becoming a "mini India."
In the past few days, the number of newly diagnosed new crowns and deaths in a single day in Nepal has set new highs one after another.
According to data released by the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal on the 9th, in the past 24 hours, Nepal has newly confirmed 8,850 new cases of new crown and 88 new deaths; the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 394,667, and the cumulative number of deaths reached 3720.
Due to the increasing number of patients, the medical resources of hospitals in various places are highly in short supply.
Some doctors described the situation as "frightening." The hospital was crowded with critically ill patients who needed to be admitted to ICUs and ventilators. "This time even children and young people are in crisis. The patients even have to sleep on the floor and in the corridor."
What worries experts even more is that only 1% of Nepal's population of less than 30 million have received two doses of the new crown vaccine, and the road to the fight against the epidemic is still very long.
The epidemic in Nepal slowed down from February to March, and the number of new cases per day was controlled within 100. Why has the "red light" been lit recently?
Some medical experts analyzed that, in addition to factors such as crowded public places and people neglecting epidemic prevention measures, the resurgence of the epidemic in Nepal is closely related to India.
Some Nepalese returned from India and carried the double mutant virus into the community, causing a rapid increase in cases.
In order to prevent and control the epidemic, the Nigerian government has stipulated that from the 6th to the 14th of this month, the operation of domestic passenger flights and the entry of most international passenger flights will be suspended.
So far, 55 of the 77 counties in Nepal have adopted epidemic prevention and control measures.
Kathmandu, the capital, where the epidemic is extremely severe, is in a state of local epidemic prevention and lockdown for two weeks.
The picture shows the Everest Base Camp on May 3.
Strict Prevention and Control: Protecting the "Roof of the World" Mount Everest
This time, what worries the world is that the new crown virus is coming so fiercely that it has spread to the base camp of Mount Everest.
Earlier, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and many other foreign media said that at least 17 climbers in the Everest base camp in Nepal have been diagnosed with the new crown.
Many people worry that if an outbreak occurs in an environment with high altitude and poor medical conditions, it may lead to "destructive consequences."
However, on the evening of May 7, local time, Nepal’s official press release officially confirmed that there was no health crisis in the Mount Everest region.
The communiqué also stated that the Nepal Tourism Administration has set up a liaison officer for each mountaineering team. They asked the team leaders about the situation and inspected the scene, confirming that as of now, there are no media reports in each mountaineering team. Health crisis.
On May 9, China’s Tibet Mountaineering Management Department and the Party Committee and the government where Mount Everest is located also held an epidemic prevention meeting at the mountaineering base camp on the northern slope of Mount Everest, confirming that there are no confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the northern slope, and that it will be in the Mount Everest climbing season in 2021. Take the most stringent epidemic prevention measures.
The Tibet Board of Directors confirmed that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in 2020, no foreign personnel have been approved to reach the Everest Mountaineering Base Camp and above at an altitude of 5,200 meters from China.
Before the summit, the mountaineering management department will send a team of professional mountain guides to set up an isolation line on the side of the summit. Anyone on the north and south slopes is prohibited from contacting each other on the summit, and Chinese climbers and Nepalese are prohibited from hanging on the summit. There is no contact with the top of Hada and other items.
Data map: On February 7, the Cambodian government held a grand ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport to welcome China's aid to Cambodia's first batch of new crown vaccines.
The picture shows Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) talking with Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian (middle).
Photo by China News Agency reporter Ouyang Kaiyu
Sounding the "wake-up bell": How does China prevent the epidemic from backlogging?
It is not only Nepal that has rebounded from the epidemic.
According to the World Health Organization, there has been a surge in newly diagnosed and fatal cases reported in Southeast Asia (including South Asia), and the spillover of the epidemic in India is the main reason for this trend.
·India has newly confirmed more than 400,000 new cases for several consecutive days, with a total of 22.29 million confirmed cases. The mutant strains found in India have been introduced to more than 20 countries.
·The Indonesian epidemic is considered to be the most serious among Southeast Asian countries, with a total of more than 1.71 million confirmed cases and a total of more than 40,000 deaths.
The country has also reported infections with variant strains found in India.
· The Maldives is experiencing the fourth wave of epidemics.
Health officials say the number of critically ill patients is on the rise, and the intensive care unit of public hospitals is full.
The epidemic situation in some Asian neighboring countries is heating up, and the risk of introducing mutant strains is increasing. The prevention and control of imports from outside China is undoubtedly facing greater pressure.
According to the data reported by the health commissions of various parts of China, among the newly imported confirmed cases in China recently, many cases were imported from India, Nepal, Cambodia, Malaysia and other countries.
For China, which has a high population mobility and a long border, how can it “prevent the epidemic” at the moment?
In this regard, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reminds that people who return from vacation travel are advised to observe themselves for 14 days. Once they develop abnormal symptoms, take measures to prevent infection of others, seek medical attention in time and actively inform the doctor of their travel history.
The National Health Commission of China also emphasized that it is necessary to further strengthen "foreign import prevention" measures such as joint prevention and control of immigrants, isolation and observation of immigrants, nucleic acid testing, prevention and control of imported goods, monitoring of mutant viruses, and capacity building in border ports to further consolidate them. Early detection and early reporting, epidemic prevention and control in key links, emergency response to clustered epidemics, and healthy behavior and habits, etc., are "internal prevention rebound" measures, and we will do our best to prevent and control the epidemic.
"One cloth with water, one family in the world".
In the face of the epidemic, China’s assistance to other countries has never been “absent”.
On May 9, Sun Weidong, Chinese Ambassador to India, stated that the first batch of anti-epidemic materials such as oxygen generators and ventilators donated by the Red Cross Society of China arrived in India on the same day.
In order to help the local area to fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Chinese Red Cross provided 1 million US dollars in cash assistance to the Indian Red Cross through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
In addition, China is cooperating with Bhutan, Cambodia and other countries to fight the epidemic, and provide many batches of material assistance.
China's relevant anti-epidemic materials and medical equipment companies are also ramping up their efforts, stepping up production, and helping the world fight the epidemic.
A few days ago, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin also said that China feels the same as Nepal’s challenges and will continue to do its best to provide support to Nepal.
China believes that under the leadership of the Nepalese government and the efforts of all parties, the Nepalese people will be able to overcome the epidemic at an early date and restore normal production and living order.