Xinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, January 7th, title: Over 200 new cases of infection in 5 days, how does Shijiazhuang deal with the raging epidemic?
Xinhua News Agency “Xinhua Viewpoint” reporters Yan Qilei, Yang Fan, Qin Jing
As of 24:00 on January 6, the total number of locally diagnosed and local asymptomatic infections of new coronary pneumonia in Shijiazhuang has exceeded 200, showing a significant increase. Faced with the raging epidemic, how will Shijiazhuang respond?
The number of cases increased sharply in Gaocheng, rural areas are still concentrated areas
From 0 to 24:00 on January 6, 51 new locally confirmed cases were reported in Hebei Province, of which 50 were reported in Shijiazhuang City; 69 new cases of local asymptomatic infection were reported in Hebei Province, of which 67 were reported in Shijiazhuang City.
At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia in Shijiazhuang on the evening of the 7th, Meng Xianghong, the deputy mayor of Shijiazhuang, introduced that from January 2 to 6, Shijiazhuang reported a total of 83 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia and 148 asymptomatic infections. .
Judging from the confirmed cases that have been announced, the vast majority of confirmed cases are still concentrated in the rural areas of Gaocheng, especially in the town of Zengcun near Zhengding International Airport. The area outside Gaocheng is sporadic. Meng Xianghong said that from the current investigation situation, the scope of case activities involved five districts in the city and 10 counties (cities) including Zhengding, Luquan, Gaocheng, Xinle, and Jingxing. Xiaoguozhuang Village in Gaocheng District was denser.
Yuan Lihua, the mayor of Gaocheng District, said that at present, Gaocheng District has all completed nucleic acid testing, and Zengcun Town has completed secondary nucleic acid testing. Today, the third nucleic acid test has been launched. As of 8 o’clock on the 7th, all the more than 670,000 people who actually live in Gaocheng have been sampled. Nucleic acid testing for all members of Shijiazhuang, involving a population of more than 10 million, is also progressing in an orderly manner. As of 12:00 on the 7th, 11 new positive cases were found.
Meng Xianghong said that Shijiazhuang City has used technical means to carry out in-depth epidemiological investigations, insisted on repeated questioning, deep digging for clues, expanded tracking, and full-fledged investigation of close contacts and sub-closed contacts, and transferred to centralized isolation points in strict accordance with closed-loop transfer requirements. Medical observation.
Shijiazhuang’s response measures continue to upgrade and strictly control the entry and exit of people, vehicles and things
As the prevention and control continued to escalate, Shijiazhuang pressed the “pause button”: except for the frontline anti-epidemic personnel, all community residents live at home, and office workers are transferred to “cloud offices.” The bustling commercial center returned to “silence” overnight, and the street-facing shops were temporarily closed. The original endless stream became empty, and anti-epidemic vehicles occasionally rushed through. Some pharmacies, supermarkets and large farmer’s markets are still operating normally to ensure that they are needed.
On the 7th, the Shijiazhuang City Leading Group for the Response to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic issued a notice that all vehicles entering and leaving the city area will be issued by the county (city) district epidemic prevention headquarters. Vehicles that obtain the pass must comply with relevant regulations and hold an ID card and valid nucleic acid. The inspection report consciously accepts the inspection, and must pass on the specified time and the specified route. In principle, each vehicle can be bound with 2 people.
It is strictly forbidden to use unsafe vehicles, unsterilized vehicles, and vehicle-mounted personnel without valid nucleic acid inspection reports to engage in transportation. For vehicles transporting anti-epidemic materials in Shijiazhuang City, with the certificate issued by the receiving unit and the letter of receipt, the personnel on the vehicle shall be checked for error and the body temperature shall be properly tested and released in time.
In terms of railways and airports, the train station has adopted methods such as stopping ticket sales, persuading people to return to the station and preparing to go out, and refunding the full amount of tickets that have been sold, effectively controlling personnel boarding and leaving the stone. Passengers who really need to travel urgently must present a valid nucleic acid negative certificate within 72 hours before boarding or boarding.
In the past few days, the number of incoming and outgoing flights at Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport has dropped significantly. On the 7th, several airlines cancelled flights to Shijiazhuang Airport.
In terms of automobile traffic, the long-distance bus terminal and passenger vehicles will be suspended from 0:00 on January 6th to 24:00 on January 8, and the normal operating hours will be notified separately. In addition, starting from 9 o’clock on the 6th, the Shijiazhuang Metro’s daily travel interval has been adjusted to 20 minutes. Public transport in the main urban area is put into operation at 50% vehicles.
More than 20,000 professionals invested in nucleic acid testing to vacate 1 hospital and 3 reserve hospitals to admit cases
In order to ensure that more than 10 million people should be checked, Shijiazhuang City has invested more than 19,000 people in testing. Starting from the 6th, Hebei Province has urgently transferred more than 3,000 medical personnel from other cities in the province to support Shijiazhuang.
On the 7th, Shijiazhuang entered the second day of full nucleic acid testing. The reporter saw on some streets such as Huaizhong Road, a nucleic acid detection vehicle temporarily modified by a bus, carrying sampling staff, and conducting stubble inspections on a community by community basis. Residents braved the severe cold, organized by community cadres and volunteers, 10 people lined up for sampling. The entire sampling process was quick and orderly.
How to complete the sampling and testing of tens of millions of people in the shortest time? Zhang Dongsheng, deputy director of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Health Commission, said that Shijiazhuang mobilizes the city’s nucleic acid testing resources and encourages third-party testing agencies to participate in the nucleic acid testing of all employees. The structure is “at the level of township and sub-district offices, and the second level of administrative villages and neighborhood committees.” Two-level grids, 331 first-level grids and 5298 second-level grids are delineated, and a work ledger is established to ensure that residents have “someone contacted, someone responsible, someone organized, and someone served.”
At the same time, a total of 5,011 sampling points have been set up in towns, communities, residential quarters, and administrative villages, and multiple places have been opened in grids with large numbers of people or scattered residents to promote nucleic acid testing.
In the face of the current epidemic, can Shijiazhuang’s medical treatment resources still support it?
“Shijiazhuang City’s Fifth Hospital is now fully vacated and is fully committed to treating patients with new coronary pneumonia. In addition, we have prepared the Provincial Chest Hospital, the Municipal People’s Hospital, and the Municipal Third Hospital as backup hospitals. At the same time, we adhere to the integration of Chinese and Western medicine and are equipped with 49 hospitals. The medical expert group is consulting, and all patients are in stable condition.” Meng Xianghong said that all confirmed patients and asymptomatic infections were sent to designated hospitals in the city for treatment.
“According to the 30-day full-load operation demand, Shijiazhuang reserves medical supplies, medicines, protective equipment, disinfection supplies and other medical supplies, mobilizes the city’s 133 key medical material production enterprises for epidemic prevention and control, increases production lines, and runs full-scale production to ensure daily life Prevention, control and testing are required.” said Liu Shengyan, director of the Shijiazhuang City Industry and Information Bureau.
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