Luo Yijun can go home and wash clothes!End of 64-day stay in Tainan, dengue fever hits 3-month low

CNEWS Convergence News Network reporter Chen Junkai/Reporting from Taipei

The local dengue fever epidemic in Tainan City has reached a new low in three months. Minister of Health and Welfare Xue Ruiyuan went south to inspect Tainan City’s dengue fever prevention and control work on the 20th, visited Tainan City Huang Weizhe, and announced that the “Dengue Fever Advance Response Team” stationed by the central government has completed its tasks. , will be disbanded with immediate effect, and Luo Yijun, deputy director of the Department of Disease Control and Prevention, who serves as the leader of the task force, will also end his 64-day stay and return to Taipei.

Xue Ruiyuan went south today to listen to the report of the “Dengue Fever Advance Response Task Force”. He believed that with the concerted efforts of the Tainan City Government, citizens and the central government, the overall epidemic situation of local dengue fever has declined significantly, and hot areas have gradually been downgraded. He decided to enter the next stage of “extermination” of epidemic prevention. “The larvae preservation plan”.

Xue Ruiyuan emphasized that the dengue fever epidemic in Tainan City has shown an overall downward trend since it reached its peak at the end of September. The number of new cases last week has dropped to 648, a new low in three months. Considering that the overall dengue fever epidemic in Tainan City has been effectively controlled , the focus of the city government’s epidemic prevention work has shifted from emergency prevention and control work to the planning and implementation stage of preserving epidemic prevention results, so it is agreed that the “Dengue Fever Advance Response Task Force” will be disbanded. He also thanked all colleagues of the “Dengue Fever Advance Response Task Force” for their hard work and assistance during this period. In response to the dengue fever epidemic, Tainan City provides real-time epidemic analysis and provides suggestions for adjustment of prevention and control strategies.

Xue Ruiyuan said that starting this week, Tainan City will continue to launch the “Child Extermination and Preservation Plan” and continue to mobilize neighbors in hot areas to carry out breeding source removal work. The central Department of Disease Control and Prevention will also continue to provide Tainan City with necessary assistance to further suppress the epidemic. , preserve the results of epidemic prevention and prevent the epidemic from overwintering.

The “Dengue Fever Advance Response Task Force” stationed by the CDC was established on September 18 this year. Luo Yijun serves as the leader of the task force. It continues to be involved in community epidemic prevention work every day, providing the Tainan City Government with immediate epidemic analysis and timely adjustment of prevention and control strategies, and On-the-spot supervision of various local prevention and control work, and Xue Ruiyuan said a few days ago that if there is no problem with the epidemic and the work team is disbanded, Luo Yijun can go home and wash clothes.

The Department of Disease Control and Prevention calls on the public to continue to implement “patrol, empty, clean and brush” and cooperate with the prevention and control measures of health units, and pay attention to their physical condition. When engaging in outdoor activities, be sure to strengthen personal protection measures, such as fever, headache, If you have any suspected symptoms such as retroorbital pain, muscle and joint pain, or rash, you must seek medical advice as soon as possible and inform your doctor of your travel and activity history. After diagnosis, you should also pay attention to whether there are warning signs of dengue fever, including: abdominal pain and tenderness, persistent vomiting, Mucous membrane bleeding, drowsiness and restlessness, etc.

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