The first wave of the epidemic in Zhejiang is expected to reach its peak in mid-January

Zhejiang News Client On December 18, Zhejiang held the 123rd press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. Medical experts from Zhejiang University First Hospital introduced the general promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.

The current epidemic situation in our province has mainly three characteristics:

First, nearly 80% of the infected population has become young and middle-aged. Although vulnerable groups such as “old and young” account for only 7.4%, experts believe that as the epidemic unfolds , will gradually increase in the future .

Second, more than 98% of cases were mild and asymptomatic, and no serious cases or deaths occurred.

The third is that the popular strains are mainly Omicron BA.5.2 and BF.7, and strains such as XBB and BQ.1 have not yet been found.

According to the calculations of multiple epidemic research models at home and abroad, the first wave of epidemics in our province is expected to reach its peak around mid-January next year, which period also coincides with the lunar new year and the epidemic it will spread rapidly with population movement. In order to scientifically and accurately respond to the upcoming peak, try to extend the peak, effectively cut the peak, and cross the peak smoothly, to achieve the “health protection and prevention of serious disease” goal, and effectively coordinate the epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development. At this stage, we should mainly work on the following five aspects.

1. Optimization of nucleic acid testing and inspection policies

We advocate “do not make nucleic acid if it is not necessary, and do not check the nucleic acid certificate if it is not necessary”. For the convenience of the masses, the party and government agencies, enterprises and institutions at all levels of the province take the initiative to no longer check nucleic acid certificates; all medical institutions, except for newly admitted patients and accompanying staff, no longer check the acidity certified nucleic acid certificates; staff gathering activities, except for important meetings and events, nucleic acid testing is no longer required.

In order to facilitate nucleic acid testing for people who really need it, we require all parts of the province to maintain the same layout, scale and efficiency of existing convenient nucleic acid sampling points. In general, the number of nucleic acid sampling points in the province remains more than 17000. At the same time, social sampling points and hospitals above the second tier are required to provide single-tube nucleic acid sampling services to meet the needs of the masses to the greatest extent.

When the epidemic strikes, protecting sensitive groups is at the heart of prevention and control. Therefore, we require that key places such as nursing homes, nursing homes, primary and secondary schools and child care institutions continue to check negative nucleic acid certificates. ” And other vulnerable groups. In addition, we adhere to the risk management of key populations, and we continue to carry out the normal nucleic acid tests for medical personnel, take-out couriers, taxi drivers, etc., to effectively reduce the risk of epidemic transmission.

2. Improve medical treatment skills

Facing the next peak of the epidemic, we have established and improved a hierarchical and classified diagnosis and treatment system to accelerate the improvement of medical treatment capabilities. Accelerate the expansion of fever clinics in accordance with the requirements of setting up as much as possible, opening as much as possible, and opening 24-hour clinics. As of December 17, the province has opened 390 fever clinics in the above medical institutions the second-level and set up 1,272 grassroots-level fever clinics, covering more than 90% of the townships (streets). The beds and intensive care beds of designated and sub-designated hospitals in the province have passed the national standard, ensuring that all claims are collected and treated. In order to further improve the treatment capacity, all inpatient hospitals will continue to be maintained and upgraded in accordance with the standards of sub-designated hospitals to ensure the treatment needs of ordinary patients with new crowns. At the same time, to ease the pressure of offline medical care, Hangzhou and other places have innovatively opened Internet hospitals. People in need can consult and seek medical care online, effectively diverting the pressure of fever clinics. In the community, we require the formation of distribution teams to provide timely procurement services of medicines and daily necessities for the elderly, disabled and other home medical personnel. Now the medical personnel are working very hard and their job duties are very onerous. Here I also appeal to the general public to understand, support and cooperate with their work, and use practical actions to cheer for the angels in white.

3. Strengthen the reserve and supply of key materials

In response to the difficulty of purchasing medicines reported by many people, we have focused on strengthening the production, storage and supply of anti-epidemic materials such as Chinese anti-virus, anti-heat and detoxification drugs, antigenic reagents and other anti-epidemic materials and promoted the enterprises concerned to work at full capacity, increase production capacity, and increase drug production and supply, among which the daily production capacity of antigen detection reagents increased from 7.8 million servings last week to the current 13.71 million servings, and is expected to increase to 25 million servings by the end of the month; 40,000 boxes, and production capacity of related key drugs is expected to further increase by the end of the month. In order to achieve accurate distribution of materials, the provincial economic and information department dynamically monitors the shortage of medical materials in the market, sends the production of key enterprises and key varieties, and focuses on ensuring the needs of the province, especially the institutions medical. At the same time, resolutely crack down on behaviors that disrupt the market and harm people’s interests, such as hoarding and arbitrary price hikes, and make every effort to ensure people’s basic medicine and epidemic prevention needs.

4. Strengthen health promotion and guidance

In the current epidemic situation, we advocate “vaccine for all people and wearing masks for all people” and “no sampling without symptoms and no medication for asymptomatic people”. A good atmosphere for people to exercise and improve their physique. Timely and accurately releasing authoritative information, strengthening popular science education and psychological counseling, and leading the masses to have a more rational understanding of the optimization and adjustment of prevention and control measures, effectively dispelling tension and panic . Especially in response to the doubts of the masses, we will timely release authoritative information to resolve the doubts; we will promptly clarify and correct some rumors and false rumors, and effectively maintain the normal social order.

5. Coordinate epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development

The purpose of epidemic prevention and control is to protect people’s health and safety and economic and social development. In accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention, stabilization of the economy, and ensuring safe development, we strive to organically combine health care and major disease prevention with maintaining stability and promoting development. Adhere to risk research, judgment and response plans, resolutely prevent secondary problems and extreme events, effectively maintain social stability, enhance market confidence, serve high-quality economic development, better coordinate risk prevention and control ‘epidemic and economic and social development and better coordinate the development and Security, to ensure that all aspects of this year end smoothly, and next year’s economic and social development will open a new chapter.

Some of the measures mentioned above focus on optimization and adjustment, while others focus on strengthening management. The purpose is to maximize the protection of vulnerable groups such as “old and young”, do our best to delay the arrival of the infection peak, flatten the infection peak, and protect the epidemic to the maximum people’s safety and health. A day late and one person less is a win. In the next stage, we will pay close attention to the development of the epidemic situation and people’s actual needs, further optimize and improve the epidemic prevention and control measures, comprehensively improve the response capabilities such as medical treatment and community support and carefully protect people’s lives, health and safety, and work together with the people of the province to resolutely win the people’s war against the epidemic.