China News Agency, Beijing, January 22 (Reporter Li Chun) For the Chinese, the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rabbit is a bit special. This is the first Spring Festival after China implemented the "Class B and B Control" for new coronavirus infections .

  With a series of optimizations in epidemic prevention and control policies, the long-accumulated demand for cross-regional personnel mobility has been further released during the Spring Festival, and the number of people returning to their hometowns and traveling has increased significantly.

Some people are happy that they can go home to celebrate the New Year and enjoy the rivers and mountains; others are concerned about some risks that may increase the flow of people.

  What is the current situation of the new crown epidemic in China?

According to the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on the 14th of this month, several peaks of the current round of the epidemic in China, that is, the peaks of fever clinics, emergency departments, and the number of people hospitalized with new crown infections have passed, and normal outpatient clinics are gradually recovering. .

  Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also issued a document on the 21st that at present, China has generally passed the peak of the epidemic, and the large, medium and small cities and counties across the country are basically in the stage of epidemic decline.

  Changes in relevant data can also reflect a positive trend.

According to the national epidemic information released by China CDC, on January 12, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had 1.27 million hospitalized cases and 104,018 severe cases (including critical cases).

By January 19, these two figures had dropped to 471,739 and 51,683 cases, respectively.

  More intuitive feelings come from front-line medical staff.

On New Year's Eve, when Chen Jining, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, was inspecting the emergency treatment situation at Shanghai First People's Hospital, the doctor on duty said that as the peak of infections passed, the number of emergency departments had dropped significantly.

Deng Yongmei, deputy chief physician of the emergency department of Peking University People's Hospital, also told a reporter from China News Agency who visited before New Year's Eve: "When the epidemic was the most tense some time ago, everyone was really struggling, and it will get better slowly."

  The situation is getting better, but the epidemic is not over yet, and the number of critically ill patients in the hospital is still high. Improving the treatment capabilities of medical and health institutions is still the focus of the current prevention and control work.

When visiting emergency stations and hospitals on New Year's Eve, Yin Yong, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and mayor, proposed to continue to improve the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, strengthen the construction of diagnosis and treatment capabilities, and improve the level of treatment.

  It is the third year for Zou Xiantong, an attending physician in the Department of Endocrinology at Peking University People's Hospital, to celebrate the New Year at work.

She said that the patients in the emergency room are basically in serious condition, and their vital signs should be monitored.

If there are new patients and some outpatients, the medical staff should also deal with them in a timely manner.

During the interview, the 120 ambulance brought a new patient, and Zou Xiantong hurried back to work.

  Sun Chunlan, vice premier of the State Council, pointed out when investigating the medical treatment of the new coronavirus infection on January 19 that the overall epidemic situation in the country has been at a low epidemic level recently, the prevention and control work has been transitioning smoothly and orderly, and the medical treatment has achieved remarkable results. The number has declined steadily, but the task of rescue is still heavy.

  Among them, medical resources in rural areas are relatively weak. During the Spring Festival, a large number of returnees returned from cities to rural areas. Making up for the shortcomings of prevention and control in rural areas is the top priority of the current epidemic prevention and control.

The special class for epidemic prevention and control in rural areas has recently sent 32 supervision teams to various places to supervise and promote the compaction of the responsibilities of the "five-level secretaries" to do a good job in rural epidemic prevention and control.

  It is known that before the Spring Festival, China has equipped nearly 600,000 village clinics with more than 1.17 million oxygen devices free of charge; the first batch of oxygen generators for 832 township health centers in poverty-stricken counties has been equipped with nearly 80% of them. Oxygen machines are also on the way.

There are also medical equipment companies that have launched public welfare projects and donated more than 10,000 medical-grade oxygen generators to grass-roots hospitals in all poverty-stricken counties across the country.

  In addition, according to Mao Dezhi, deputy director of the Rural Cooperative Economic Guidance Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and a first-level inspector, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Health Commission, has recently provided some rural areas with free analgesic small molecule drugs to solve the problem of The shortage of medicines.

  The research and development of new crown treatment medicine and equipment has also spread good news one after another.

Not long before the Spring Festival, the State Drug Administration of China approved the marketing of two biosimilars of tocilizumab injection, which have been included in the tenth edition of the new crown diagnosis and treatment plan and the fourth edition of the new crown severe case diagnosis and treatment plan.

In addition, the State Food and Drug Administration has also approved 13 medical oxygen products and the second domestically produced ECMO product.

  After three years away from her hometown, Ms. Zhang, who lives in Dongcheng District, Beijing, chose to return to her hometown in Shanxi this year for the New Year. She brought 5 oximeters and some antipyretic and cough medicines for relatives.

Ms. Zhang found that relatives and friends have more or less stocked up on some medicines, and the shortage of medicines has been greatly alleviated. Some nutritional and health products that protect the heart muscle and enhance immunity have also become this year's New Year's goods.

  Ms. Zhang also told a reporter from China News Agency that some relatives in her hometown are already "Yang Kang", some relatives are "Yang", and some relatives are "Wei Yang".

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone chose to pay New Year’s greetings by phone and hand out red envelopes online. It seems that a consensus has been reached: "Since there are still people in the family who don’t have 'Yang', don’t go to a restaurant to have a big dinner for now, and there is no rush to celebrate. Under the year." (End)