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National Health Commission: 757 new local confirmed cases nationwide in the past week
At a press conference held by the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism on 20 January 2021, Mi Feng, spokesperson for the National Health Commission and Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department, said that in the past week, there have been 757 newly local confirmed covid cases in China. This is the first time that the National Health Commission has revealed exact figures to mainland Chinese media.
For example, the number of close contacts still under medical observation is the most in 10 months. Recently, clustered epidemics have occurred in many places, mostly in rural areas. In some places, multiple chains of transmission have appeared in the same province or city, and clusters of cases have appeared in families, communities, and schools. The task of epidemic prevention and control remains arduous.
Mi Feng pointed out that as the Spring Festival approached, the flow of people increased, and the risk of epidemic spread further increased.
On 18 January, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued a notice on furthering the prevention and control of the current covid epidemic, emphasizing that localities must activate the epidemic emergency command system and maintain a 24-hour operation status; improve nucleic acid detection capabilities and improve detection efficiency and quality, strengthen flow traceability and improve gene sequencing capabilities; strictly isolate and control key personnel to avoid cross-infection; go all out to strengthen medical treatment and strengthen prevention and control of hospital infections; focus on epidemic prevention and control in rural areas, and strengthen the integration of airports and urban areas.
Ministries should exercise epidemic prevention and control areas that see more migrant workers returning home. It is necessary to further consolidate the "four-party responsibilities" of territories, departments, units, and individuals, implement the "four early" requirements for early detection, early reporting, early isolation, and early treatment, and do not relax and do good jobs such as "external input defense input, internal rebound defense".
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5+61, the latest summary of the national epidemic risk areas (as of 10:30 on 20 January 2021)
Source: China News Network / http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2021/01-20/9391756.shtml / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
As of 10.30 am on 20 January 2021, there are 5 high-risk areas across the country, including the entire Gaocheng District of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, the entire area of Xinle City, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, the entire area of Nangong City, Xingtai, Hebei Province, the entire area of Wangkui County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province and the whole area of Dongchang District, Tonghua, Jilin Province. There are 61 medium-risk regions, involving Hebei Province (42), Heilongjiang Province (7), Beijing (5), Jilin Province (5), and Liaoning Province (2). Again, in order to do a good job in the prevention and control of the covid epidemic, please maintain a safe social distance and standardize the wearing of masks.
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Tiangongyuan's 5 communities are closed for control and Beijing Daxing releases new measures for epidemic prevention and control
Editor : Li Peiyun / http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2021/01-20/9391552.shtml / Direct translation
According to the official Weibo news of Beijing Daxing District, in the early morning of 20 January 2021, the leading group for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Daxing District issued the following measures to prevent and control the epidemic:
1. Strictly control key areas. The Ronghui community, Tiangongyuan community, Tiangongyuanxili community, Tiangongyuanzhongli community, and Tiangongyuannanli community in Tiangongyuan Street implement strict closed control. All members of this community observe at home and do not leave the house. Except for the closed controlled community, other communities in Tiangongyuan Street shall implement strict closed management, with valid entry and exit certificates, and non-residents of the community are not allowed to enter. All public places within the jurisdiction of Tiangongyuan Street will be closed.
2. Strengthen village community management and control. In principle, each village community only retains 1-2 entrances and exits, and strictly implements staff on duty 24 hours a day, and implements verification, scan code, temperature measurement, and registration control measures for entry and exit personnel.
3. Carry out nucleic acid testing and symptom screening for all employees. Those with symptoms must report to the community village as soon as possible and seek medical treatment in time.
4. In principle, all personnel in the district are prohibited from leaving Beijing. If they need to leave Beijing, they must hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 3 days according to the principle of “whoever approves and is responsible”.
5. All off-campus training institutions in the whole district will be closed down, and all primary, secondary, and kindergarten students will study and live at home. All kinds of stores, commercial buildings, hotels, cinemas, fitness venues and other public places within the jurisdiction of Tiangongyuan Street shall strictly implement measures such as temperature testing, ventilation and disinfection, and health and green code inspections, and strictly limit the flow to 50%. Advocate remote and home office work.
6. Implement closed management of special institutions such as nursing homes and welfare homes, focus on the prevention and control of imported epidemics and internal spread of diseases.
7. Under the conditions of strict implementation of various prevention and control measures, other areas outside the jurisdiction of Tiangongyuan Street can only hold meetings with a scale of less than 50 people, and stop holding conventions, exhibitions, sports events and performances, postponement of weddings, brief funerals, and no banquets.
8. Medical institutions insist on implementing outpatient appointment registration and health code systems to strictly control the utilization rate of wards.
9. The full load rate of rail transit and ground buses shall not exceed 75%, and implement prevention and control work such as disinfection and ventilation, body temperature detection, wearing masks, handover of feverish passengers, and information registration.
10. Insist on wearing masks scientifically, and increase the frequency and scope of disinfection in crowded places.
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Epidemic worsens in Heilongjiang, 16 officials punished, many villagers were collectively taken away
Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/20/a103036132.html / Direct translation
The epidemic in Heilongjiang continued to worsen, and 16 officials in Wangkui County were punished on 20 January for ineffective epidemic prevention. People in the county revealed that villagers from many villages have been collectively taken away for quarantine. Villagers dare not talk about the epidemic in social groups, and they may be arrested if they say it.
Wangkui County was promoted to a high-risk area on the morning of January 20. In the past few days, the number of local people infected with the CCP virus has continued to rise, and the epidemic has spread to many provinces and cities.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China issued a notice on the 20th that 16 officials in Wangkui County were punished for neglecting their duties and failing to prevent the epidemic. Including the 2 deputy heads of Wangkui County, the director of Health Commission, 2 deputy directors and 1 chief of section, the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the head of the Epidemiology Department, and the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, 9 people were given serious warnings, including two, the deputy head of the county and the director of the Health Bureau were removed from office.
In addition, 7 officials in Huiqi Town outside Wangkui County were punished, including the town’s principal and deputy party committee secretary and members of the prevention and control leading group. Among them, the principal and deputy party committee secretary were expelled from party and public office.
In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, Wangkui County has implemented the strictest control since 19 January. All residents are prohibited from leaving their homes, private cars are prohibited on the road, food and lodging gatherings are forbidden, all restaurants cancel dine-in meals, and control measures are temporarily implemented for one week.
According to official epidemic data, as of 18 January, only 27 people have been diagnosed in Heilongjiang. The outside world has serious doubts about the official data.
Sister Wang, a villager near Wangkui County, told The Epoch Times reporter that the local epidemic situation is quite serious. All the staff in Wangkui County have performed the fifth nucleic acid test. They are more than 30 miles away from Wangkui County and also performed the second round. Nucleic acid amplification testing.
A Sun Xing citizen in Wangkui County told Free Asia a few days ago that almost all villagers in two villages in the local area were infected, and only two households were not infected. Uniform isolation. All the livestock in the village were killed today and buried deep after it was over."
Sister Wang confirmed that Wangkui County first took away more than 300 people from two villages, and then took away people from two or three villages. "Some go to the hotel, the hotel has no space, and some are put in the second middle school, where the students are on vacation; some people just put it in a nursing home."
Sister Wang said that there were a lot of police cars, small cars, and buses at the scene when pulling people. It was always scary, "it made the child cry and the wife called it." The cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks and other livestock raised by the villagers are no longer fed, and they are handled by the government.
Some people also reported to The Epoch Times that the livestock in these moved villages were dug and buried.
Sister Wang also said that these villagers had to be quarantined for 21 days, and then they came over. She also revealed, “Now social groups are not allowed to talk about the epidemic, or they may say that you spread rumours, or you may be arrested. Because it involves the issue of reporting the number.”
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Has the peak of the epidemic situation in Wangkui County, Suihua, Heilongjiang passed? Has the source been found?
Editor : Li Yusu / Source: CCTV News / http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2021/01-20/9391676.shtml / Direct translation
News 1+1丨Wangkui County, Suihua, Heilongjiang, how to prevent and control a cluster of epidemics?
Heilongjiang has a total of 172 newly confirmed local cases in 9 days. Among them, there are 150 cases in Wangkui County, Suihua. The confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections in other cities are also close contacts of the cases.
How do you view the development trend of the epidemic? How are the prevention and control measures being advanced? "News 1+1" connects Dong Wenqin, member of the Standing Committee of the Suihua Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Government, and Yang Yang, a reporter from CCTV, to pay attention to: How to prevent and control a cluster of epidemics in Wangkui County, Suihua, Heilongjiang?
All residents of Wangkui County, Heilongjiang are prohibited from leaving their homes. How do you think about it for a week?
The time is tentatively set for 7 days, which is also a decision after discussion and judgment with experts.
It has been more than a week since the outbreak of the epidemic in Wangkui County and the implementation of control. Based on the experts’ experience in prevention and control in the past and other regions, the epidemic can be effectively controlled within 2 to 3 weeks. There is a week or so to strengthen, and the effect of controlling the epidemic can basically be seen.
In addition, it is also the most critical period for epidemic prevention and control. Nucleic acid testing for all employees is being carried out in full swing. Next, the situation of the epidemic should be based on the screening data, the number of cases found, including the source of the positive cases, and then an overall comprehensive study and judgment. The prevention and control strategies should also be adjusted in time according to changes in the situation.
Has the peak of the epidemic situation in Wangkui County passed?
Judging from the current data, it is not possible to directly judge that the peak of the epidemic has passed.
Today, the number of confirmed cases has decreased compared with the previous few days. Overall, it is a good sign, but we still need to observe for a few days and look at the trend before we can make a final judgment. The change in the number of confirmed cases every day is mainly determined by the number of tests, and the population being tested, including the source of the tested persons, will affect data fluctuations. At the same time, the trend of the epidemic is also a highly technical judgment. After the previous rounds of testing, a large amount of data has been generated. Experts still have to make a systematic and scientific research and judgment based on these data. As the government, they still need to listen to the opinions of experts. Race against time, one minute earlier, one minute earlier, one second earlier to control the spread of the epidemic.
Has the source of the epidemic in Wangkui County been found? How is the circulation work going on?
Now the Heilongjiang Province Flow Regulation Expert Group and the National Flow Regulation Expert Group have jointly formed a team of more than 300 people, and the speed and quality of the flow regulation are very high. All newly diagnosed infected persons can complete the circulation within 24 hours according to the legal requirements, and the infected persons who are transferred can also be sent to the isolation point for quarantine observation in time.
The difficulty lies in:
The weather in Heilongjiang is relatively cold now. Experts travel, especially the wearing and taking off of isolation suits is not very convenient, which affects efficiency.
Nowadays, some people do not use mobile phones, and there are still some obstacles to the comparison of big data.
The next step is to increase the flow regulation speed. As of 24:00 on January 18, there are 385 cases in Wangkui County, and 327 circulating reports have been completed, and 1,808 close contacts have been identified. All of them have been quarantined and controlled to "should be separated." As for the source of this epidemic, experts are making scientific judgments based on these data and the current situation.
1,051 people in key villages in Wangkui County have all been transferred to isolation
The area that needs to be emptied this time involves two villages and five natural villages. The main reason is that the infection cases are concentrated here. The total number of people involved in the emptying is now 1051. Except for some of the positive cases, which were promptly transferred to designated hospitals for treatment, the others were transferred to centralized isolation points.
Hope that more than 1.2 million migrant workers in Suihua can celebrate the New Year locally
There are currently more than 1.2 million people working in other places in Suihua, and my hometown also misses them very much, and especially understands their eagerness to go home during the Spring Festival. But now the epidemic should be in a critical period of prevention and control, and I hope that the wanderers outside of Suihua can celebrate the New Year locally this year. Chinese New Year here is the deepest feelings for my hometown and the greatest support for the fight against the epidemic in my hometown. After the epidemic is over, people outside Suihua can go home for reunion as soon as possible.
Tonight, CCTV reporter Yang Yang also sent an on-site visit to Suihua.
How is the treatment of confirmed patients in Wangkui County going on?
The principle of treatment. Now adopt the principle of stratified treatment. Severe and critical patients, including ordinary patients, are undergoing treatment in the First Hospital of Suihua. Asymptomatic and light patients here are transferred to Harbin Infectious Disease Hospital and Heilongjiang Infectious Disease Hospital for treatment.
Healing power. The national expert team arrived in Suihua on 14 January, and now there is a Heilongjiang expert team of more than 50 people in Suihua. The national expert team and the local expert team have united to form a treatment mechanism. Guan Xiangdong, who is familiar with the "Eight Immortals of Severe Diseases" Qiu Haibo and Liu Qingquan, a Chinese medicine expert, are now in Suihua. One characteristic of this equipment is the combination of Chinese and Western medicine.
Close monitoring. Suihua now has more asymptomatic infections and mild patients, with 234 asymptomatic infections. For these people, monitoring their health to curb the beneficial development of the disease is also the focus of current treatment work.
At present, Suihua is implementing the most stringent and precise control measures. There are two major feelings:
"Strict". Although there is only one high-risk area, Huiqi Town, Suihua City conducts control according to the standards of high-risk areas. For example, all residents cannot go out and motor vehicles cannot go on the road.
"Difficult". The temperature is very cold now, which is kind of difficult. In addition, Suihua has not experienced a local-scale outbreak before. For the citizens, there is a psychological difficulty that everyone has to spend together.
Wangkui County currently has 7 quarantine points available but not used
Hotel isolation points. Individuals quarantined at these quarantine points have one room for each person. At the same time, each quarantined hotel will be equipped with medical staff, killers, and public security personnel.
Reserve isolation points. Suihua now has some reserve isolation points, as well as some existing buildings, including isolation points for school renovation. For example, the opened Suihua College, which was originally a school, has now been transformed into a centralized isolation point; and the vocational and technical education center in Suihua has also been opened.
At present, there are 116 isolation points in Suihua, and 109 have been activated. From the figures, it can be seen that the current number of isolation points can meet the current demand.
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