Reporter : Luo Tingting
Editor : Zhu Xinrui
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Beijing's catering industry has become a severely affected area, and many restaurants have burst out of infections. (Noel Celis / AFP via Getty Images)
The epidemic in Beijing continues to heat up, and the catering industry has become a severely affected area. A number of restaurants have burst out of clustered infections. The public panic and worry about the disease. Recently, medical teams from five provinces have aided Beijing. Experts have analyzed that according to the medical conditions in Beijing, the current scale of the epidemic in Beijing far exceeds the official data, which is more than 10 times.
Beijing's catering industry becomes the hardest hit
As of 3 pm on 21 June, the official information showed that Beijing has accumulated 4 high-risk areas of the covid epidemic, 37 medium-risk areas, covering 10 districts in Beijing.
The Beijing CDC on 19 June proactively announced the case of infection of 8 employees in a restaurant, but did not inform the location and name of the restaurant.
Due to the large number of floating population in restaurants, the occurrence of cases may cause the epidemic to spread widely, causing panic among Beijing residents. Netizens have said, "I heard this news, and my mentality has exploded!" "A whole restaurant is infected with many people, is it difficult to report the name of the store?" "We are really worried, very panic!"
According to official information, there have been at least six restaurants in Beijing that have reported cluster infections, but the official only announced the number of restaurant employees infected, and did not report how many diners were infected due to meals.
The owner of a restaurant in Xinfadi Market told The Epoch Times reporter that he is currently quarantined in a hotel. About 200 people were quarantined for 14 days. Now he has been quarantined for 7 days. He revealed that in some hotels, "there were cases found in them, and they were all removed."
He also said that it is not a problem to concentrate on eating and drinking in isolation, but it is difficult for the people to pay for the isolation costs after the guarantee. Rebel, don't give, because this is to cooperate with the country."
According to an official report, a staff named "all-inclusive restaurant" was diagnosed by 8 employees. A new owner knew the restaurant owner. He told the Epoch Times reporter that it is also unclear how this shop was infected. "Yes It may be (originated from) the customer, because the Xinfadi is this ice seafood market, and there are many people who come to eat ramen. Maybe the customer went to buy the seafood and then infected them."
Another Laoyang specialty barbecue restaurant on Gaomidian Street in Daxing District also reported cases of infection. Officials reported that the manager of the restaurant often went to the new place to purchase. Currently, two cold meat masters and waiters have been diagnosed. However, some netizens are puzzled about this, "The shop owner who went to purchase has not been diagnosed yet, and the employee has been diagnosed first?"
The catering industry has become a severely affected area, causing everyone to endanger themselves. A restaurant owner said that the store has been closed for more than 5 days. "We are willing to close our own business. It is the peak of the epidemic and we dare not open it."
Some netizens said, "The winter of the catering industry is coming." "The employees of the catering industry are basically eating and living together, and there are customers, which are considered to be ill. It seems that many restaurants will not be able to sustain it."
Is the Beijing epidemic out of control? 5 provincial medical team support
The catering industry has a large number of floating population, and the explosion of infections has greatly increased the prevention and control of the epidemic. The outside world has noticed that there are medical teams from Hubei and other five provinces recently to go to Beijing for reinforcements. It is suspected that the epidemic is not "controlled" by official propaganda. On the contrary, the epidemic may continue to spread and deteriorate.
On the morning of June 20, the first medical teams from Hubei Province arrived in Beijing to support major hospitals in Beijing. Including 6 large-scale top three hospitals including Wuhan University Central South Hospital, Wuhan University People's Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Hospital, a total of more than 70 professional medical staff.
According to Chinese Communist Party media reports, Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital will support Beijing Hospital, Huake Tongji Hospital will support Beijing Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital, and Huake Union Hospital will support Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
In addition, dozens of epidemiological investigators from Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Shandong Province, Henan Province, and the Chinese Communist Party Center for Disease Control and Prevention have arrived at relevant hospitals in Beijing.
It is worth mentioning that on the afternoon of the 20th, Peking University International Hospital issued a notice that a nurse in the emergency department of the hospital was diagnosed with CPV (Wuhan pneumonia). This nurse was a close contact with a confirmed case in Haidian District. The nurse was Before the diagnosis, he had been working in the hospital and had contact with patients and colleagues. The hospital is now closed and the outpatient service has been suspended.
Prior to this, on June 18th and 19th, the heads of 8 hospitals and 5 districts in Beijing were interviewed. The Health and Health Commission requested medical institutions in Beijing to upgrade the level of prevention and control, highlighting the seriousness of the Beijing epidemic.
Expert: The scale of the epidemic in Beijing is multiplied by more than 10
According to official data released by the CCP, from June 11 to 20, 227 people were diagnosed in Beijing. But the outside world questioned the official's serious fraud on the epidemic data. Dr. Xiao En, a virology researcher at the former US Army Research Institute, analyzed: "It must not be such a scale. It may not be multiplied by 10. Why do you say that? If Xinfadi is an important source of transmission, then it is definitely more than that. There are hundreds of cases, because the flow of tens of thousands of people in that place goes in and out like this every day."
"Beijing's epidemic situation can be upgraded to level 2 (prevention and control), and even enter the wartime state, and then many roads are closed. This is definitely not only 200 cases. Because if there are only 200 cases, the existing medical conditions in Beijing are easy to treat These people are isolated. So now this scale is definitely more than that, far more than that." Xiao En said.
Some netizens also posted questions: The confirmed cases announced by Beijing are only more than 200, but why are medical teams supporting Beijing now? There are only 73 top three hospitals in Beijing. Is it possible that so many hospitals cannot treat more than 200 patients? What happened in Beijing?
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