Thursday, April 16, 2020

Covid cluster infections rebound in Harbin, epidemic prevention work seriously weak

Reporter : Wang Kun
Publisher : Heilongjiang Daily; Dongbei.com
Re-published Ref : http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2020/04-16/9158350.shtml
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image courtesy : Sixth Tone

In the afternoon of 15 April 2020, Wang Wentao, Deputy Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, Governor, and Commander of the Leadership Team of Heilongjiang Provincial Committee for Responding to Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Infection, chaired the meeting to implement epidemic prevention measures. According to the requirements of the meeting, Harbin  poor epidemic prevention and control work has led to the rebound of cluster infections. He interviewed the main person in the headquarters in charge of  Harbin’s response to the covid epidemic prevention works, pointed out the existing problems seriously, and raised severe criticism.

Wang Wentao pointed out during the interview that at present, the overall situation of national epidemic prevention and control continues to improve, and the staged effectiveness of epidemic prevention and control has been further consolidated, but there has been a cluster of epidemic outbreaks in Harbin, reflecting the importance and seriousness of the Harbin City headquarters for epidemic prevention and control. 

The situation of covid in Harbin is not well-understood, and the territorial responsibilities, main body responsibilities, and supervisor responsibilities have not been effectively fulfilled. There are paralyzed thoughts, epidemic battle exhaustion, and fluke psychology. Fully exposing the control measures are not implemented, the "internal anti-rebound" work is weak, and there are still obvious loopholes and problems. The Provincial Headquarters made serious criticism of this, and the Municipal Headquarters should make a profound inspection of the Provincial Headquarters and seriously reflect on the rectification.

Wang Wentao emphasized that Harbin  should conscientiously implement the important speech and important instruction spirit of General Secretary Xi Jin Ping, implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, the State Council, and the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, fully understand the seriousness and seriousness of the problem, and draw profound lessons, reflect on these lessons, look at the weak points, find the weak links, make serious rectifications, fill in the loopholes and shortcomings, establish a normalized prevention and control mechanism for timely detection, rapid disposal, precise control and effective treatment, and resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. These are to ensure that there is no risk of a local outbreak rebound.

Wang Wentao pointed out that Harbin should resolutely block the loopholes in the control of communities and villages, effectively control the gates of villages and villages, and strengthen public awareness of normal control and prevention about “less going out, not gathering, wearing masks, and washing hands frequently”. 

The management of villages is a problem in Harbin, and it is especially necessary to control community gatherings. It is necessary to plug loopholes in the management of fever clinics and pharmacies in clinics, and truly play the role of "sentinel" to strengthen  epidemiological investigations, race against time, speed up contact tracing and cutting off the sources of infection in time, and block the spread of transmission as soon as possible. Hospital disinfection and protection should be done to prevent cross-infection cases in the hospitals. 

In Harbin, the authorities should take the lead in encouraging more people to do nucleic acid testing at their own expense and to screen for asymptomatic infections. It is necessary to activate the accountability mechanism and hold relevant units and responsible persons accountable according to law. It is important to timely disclose relevant epidemic information and response to social concerns.

The mayor of Harbin and the city’s chief commander of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Work Command Sun Zhe made a statement, expressing sincere acceptance of criticism, accepting all the rectification and reform requests put forward by the provincial command, and will make every effort to find weak links in prevention and control, establish a list of problems and rectify the account book, promote the implementation of special classes, cut off the transmission path as much as possible, and resolutely contain the spread of the epidemic.

On 15 April 2020, 15 local new covid cases are reported in Harbin. As of 16 April 2020, there are 377 symptomatic infections presently in Heilongjiang including cases in Suifenhe.




Ref : https://ncov.dxy.cn/ncovh5/view/pneumonia

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