Beijing men's toilet also tested positive for SARS-CoV-2

Reporter : Li Yun / Editor : Zhu Xinrui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/17/a103033895.html / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Image : On 11 January, Beijing residents lined up for testing. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

A new wave of the SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus) epidemic spread rapidly. Hebei, which is close to Beijing, has become the hardest-hit area, and there have been deaths. Beijing is highly nervous and adopts strict preventive measures, but the epidemic situation in Beijing is still rising day by day. It was reported on 16 January that a nucleic acid environmental sample from a male toilet in a food company in Beijing tested positive.

According to the Suqian Voice, the official Weibo of Suqian Municipal Government in Jiangsu Province, released on 16 January, the Sucheng District CDC received a notification at 11 pm on 13 January, stating that a nucleic acid environmental sample from a male toilet in a food company in Beijing tested positive. Part of the semi-finished bread produced by the company is sold to Nanjing and then shipped to Sucheng District. According to the report, the batch of 268 boxes of bread shipped to Sucheng District was ordered by the local RT-Mart. The notification also stated that relevant personnel, articles and environmental samples have been collected after the report. So far, 16 relevant contacts, 9 semi-finished bread and packaging samples, and 24 environmental samples have been tested negative for nucleic acid. In this regard, some netizens questioned, "I can't hide the epidemic, this time I dumped the pot to the men's toilet?" Some netizens were puzzled, "Why do you think of going to the men's toilet for inspection? Is there any inspection in the women's toilet? Then is the next step in the sewer system? Check all the septic tanks?" Over the past few months, various parts of China have repeatedly reported that they have tested positive for nucleic acids in different external environmental samples. In the early days, it was the outer packaging of various imported frozen foods. At the end of last year, the virus was detected in the outer packaging of auto parts. The latest one was on 14 January, Tianjin notified that a sample of ice cream from a food company tested positive for the virus. However, outsiders speculate that these rhetoric cannot be ruled out by local governments because the local epidemic cannot be suppressed. Frozen food, auto parts, ice cream, etc. are used to conceal the true source of the local epidemic. Since the beginning of last year, the CCP virus epidemic has spread rapidly on the mainland, and Hebei Province has entered a wartime state since 5 January. Party media reported that Hebei is currently building a "square cabin hospital" project, which is under construction 24 hours a day. Among them, Xingtai Nangong has urgently set up more than 5,000 beds of CCP virus cases. Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, built a centralized isolation point for 3,000 people. It is reported that it covers an area of ​​500 acres and built 3,000 isolation board houses, which will be completed in about 15 days. Local residents began to worry about their situation, saying that the current situation is worse than the outbreak at the beginning of last year. As Hebei surrounds Beijing, the Beijing authorities are highly nervous and take strict precautions. Beijing Lianwai’s roads control vehicles only to get in and out. However, the epidemic cannot be prevented, and the epidemic in Beijing is increasing day by day. Since Beijing announced the emergence of local confirmed cases on 18 December 2020, in the afternoon of 19 December, Beijing notified the emergence of new confirmed cases in Chaoyang District. Subsequently, the Hanting Hotel in Chaoyang District was designated as a medium-risk area, and Shijingshan District entered a wartime state. On 24 December 2020, new cases also appeared in Xicheng District, Beijing, Xishiku community and Shuntianfu were closed, and all staff were tested for nucleic acid overnight. Xicheng District is the core area of ​​the Communist Party’s power, Zhongnanhai, Beijing Great Hall, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Central Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the State Council, and the National Development and Reform Commission are all located in Xicheng District. The CCP virus epidemic has once again penetrated into Xicheng District. The Beijing Municipal Government urgently issued 20 prevention and control requirements on December 25: Party and government officials and citizens are not allowed to travel to high-risk areas, suspend inbound and outbound tourism services, and do not organize tourist groups into Beijing Wait. Since 28 December, Beijing has cancelled all large-scale mass events, and all large-scale meetings originally scheduled to be held in Beijing have also been cancelled. At the same time, the prevention and control of the epidemic in Beijing has entered a state of emergency. Under strict control, there are still confirmed cases in Xicheng District. On 12 January, Beijing’s Xicheng District notified that a confirmed case in Gu’an County, Langfang City, Hebei Province, was an employee of a company in Xicheng District who had recently lived in Shijiazhuang. It can be seen from the case information released by Hebei that this female patient recently traveled to and from Beijing to work and took Beijing Metro Line 4 many times. After an epidemiological investigation in Beijing, 95 people in close contact were preliminarily determined, and they were controlled. During the peak of the first wave of the epidemic in Beijing last year, many areas including Xicheng District were listed as risk areas. At that time, Twitter reported that the CCP virus had captured Zhongnanhai, and Wang Zhongwei, a senior CCP official at the ministerial level and party secretary and director of the State Council Counsel’s Office, was diagnosed with the CCP virus and was urgently isolated and treated but the news finally fell apart. In June of the same year, another epidemic broke out in the Xinfadi market in Beijing. Several areas such as Xicheng District were again included in the risk zone, and the CCP's top officials were once collectively invisible. At that time, some Hong Kong media said that due to the impact of the epidemic, some of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party had moved to work in Yuquanshan in the western suburbs of Beijing.