Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 18 (Reporter Song Chen) Recently, the number of newly confirmed local cases and asymptomatic infections in my country has continued to decline, but local transmission has not been completely blocked in some places, and the epidemic prevention and control situation is still severe and complicated.
How can communities improve their prevention and control capabilities?
How to build an "epidemic-free community"?
Experts from the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council provided authoritative answers.
Liang Wannian, head of the expert group of the National Health Commission's Epidemic Response and Disposal Leading Group, said that the community is the frontier of prevention and control, the first line of defense, and the most basic unit for the implementation of various prevention and control measures.
"Dividing the closed area, control area, prevention area and taking different prevention and control measures is an accurate and effective way to deal with it." Wu Hao, dean of the School of Medicine and Continuing Education, said that in view of the new characteristics of the Omicron variant, the relevant departments are further accelerating the time for sealing, management and control, and at the same time adopting temporary control measures to prevent Risk spillover, when the risk is removed, it is quickly relieved.
According to different local conditions, prevention and control strategies and measures are constantly being optimized, and various regions are using more information technology means, such as the widespread implementation of site codes and electronic fences in public places, to improve the efficiency of community prevention and control.
Wu Hao said that to achieve "four early" community prevention and control, we must give full play to our country's institutional advantages, consolidate the responsibilities of the four parties, and build a group prevention and control situation.
To further improve community prevention and control capabilities, Liang Wannian believes that there are several points to be implemented-
The first is to make emergency plans for different epidemic situations and different prevention and control conditions; the second is to extensively create "epidemic-free communities"; the third is to consolidate the responsibilities of enterprises and institutions in the community, and to deploy prevention and control measures in advance; Pay more attention to key groups, regions and units.
How to create an "epidemic-free community"?
Wu Hao said that the creation of "epidemic-free communities" in various places has generated a lot of experience.
Creating an "epidemic-free community" includes six steps: clearing, cleaning, healthy, caring, mobilizing and motivating—
Clearing means that there are no new positive infected persons, asymptomatic infected persons, and no close contacts who should be quarantined within an incubation period. All personnel should complete at least one round of nucleic acid testing for all staff, and the results are all negative.
Cleanliness refers to standardizing cleaning and disinfection, strengthening the disinfection of key areas and key parts, and keeping the environment clean and hygienic.
Health refers to complying with epidemic prevention requirements, guiding residents to actively participate in the vaccination against the new coronavirus, actively reporting personal epidemic-related matters, earnestly cooperating with nucleic acid testing, and strengthening residents' health education.
Care means to find out the bottom line and improve the ledger for special groups in the community, to have a deep understanding of the different situations and needs of key groups in the community, to clarify the content of assistance, and to implement precise care and assistance.
Mobilization refers to fully exploiting the strengths of party members and volunteers within the community, and establishing a working mechanism for community mass prevention and control under the leadership of party building.
Incentives refer to comprehensively promoting government agencies, enterprises, institutions and community cadres to participate in the creation of "epidemic-free communities" and form a long-term mechanism for building healthy communities.
Liang Wannian said that more than two years of prevention and control practices have proved that community prevention and control can effectively block the spread of the epidemic and achieve "dynamic clearing" as soon as possible.