22 people in 4 places including Haikou and Wuhan! The infection chain of Jingzhou Railway Station may have formed
Source : Guangzhou Daily
According to recent reports from Jiangsu and Hubei, on 22 July 2021, an enterprise in Hongze District, Huai'an, Jiangsu Province organized 67 employees to travel to Zhangjiajie, Hunan. As of 12 pm on 2 August, the tour group had a total of 10 positive people detected. In addition, the spouses of two of the positive testers also tested positive. The announced track shows that at 1.10 pm on 27 July, the above-mentioned tour group arrived at Jingzhou Railway Station to wait for the train, and took the D3078 train to Hefei South Railway Station at 3.52 pm.
In addition, on 1 August, two new local diagnoses were made in Shacheng District, Jingzhou, Hubei Province. Among them, Case 1 Hong and a tourist group from Huai'an, Jiangsu had a trajectory intersection in the waiting hall of Jingzhou Railway Station on the afternoon of 27 July. Case 2 Zhou X is a girlfriend of Hong.
At the same time, a new confirmed case notified by Haikou, Hainan on 1 August also overlaps with the above-mentioned tour group at Jingzhou Station.
Just now, Hubei Wuhan Economic Development Zone notified 7 migrant workers in Wuhan that the nucleic acid was positive, and 1 had an intersection with the Huai'an tourist group. Case Tang, a migrant worker from a construction site in Zhuankou Street, had an intersection with the activity trajectory of a tourist group in Huai'an while waiting at the Jingzhou High-speed Railway Station on 27 July. In the morning of 2 August, Tang and the 6 people close to him tested positive for nucleic acid.
As of press time, on 27 July, there have been 22 infected persons in the relevant chain of infection at Jingzhou Railway Station.
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China's epidemic is severe and some areas return to "wartime state"
Image : On 1 August, Yangzhou epidemic prevention personnel carried out disinfection operations. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
The epidemic in China is severe and complicated. It is suspected that there have been multiple transmission centers in Nanjing and Zhangjiajie. The spread of the epidemic continues to increase, showing a trend of blooming everywhere. Prevention and control have been strengthened in various places, and some areas have returned to the wartime state when the epidemic broke out in early 2020.
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Nanjing epidemic has spread to at least 24 cities
As of 2 August 2021, the epidemic in Nanjing had spread to at least 24 cities and at least 365 people were infected. An epidemic originating from hospitals is suspected in Henan, and local cases have also occurred in Xiamen, Fujian and Wuxi, Jiangsu, and they are not related to the Nanjing transmission chain, indicating that the epidemic is showing a trend of blooming everywhere.
At present, Nanjing and Zhangjiajie are both in a "quasi-closed city" state. Nanjing has launched the fourth round of full-staff nucleic acid testing, and all communities in Zhangjiajie have implemented closed management for full-staff testing.
WeChat public account "Zhangjiajie on the palm" reported on the 1st that Zhangjiajie Aviation Industry Vocational and Technical College is temporarily establishing 13 shelter nucleic acid testing laboratories. As of press time, 7 shelter nucleic acid testing laboratories have been established and put into use.
With the extension of the transmission chain, as of 1 August there were 91 medium-risk areas and 4 high-risk areas across the country, located in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, and Zhengzhou, Henan.
The number of infections in Zhengzhou, Henan Province has skyrocketed. On 31 July, 28 cases were reported in one day. The patients were mainly medical staff and cleaning staff from the Sixth Hospital of Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou citizens are undergoing nucleic acid testing for all employees.
At present, international airports, performance venues, public transportation, hospitals, etc. have become "essential places" for the spread of the epidemic, while performances, tourism and other activities have become "high-risk behaviors." Due to the severe epidemic situation, various localities have strengthened prevention and control measures, and 31 provinces and cities have issued bans requiring citizens to "not leave unless necessary."
On the 1st, Beijing upgraded its control of entering Beijing, strictly controlling the entry of people from areas with medium and high risks, restricting entry to Beijing from areas where cases have occurred, and suspending flights, trains, and passenger trains to Beijing. Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Zhangjiajie, Yangzhou and other trains entering Beijing are all suspended.
On 2 August, the mayor of Yangzhou City, Zhang Baojuan, whose epidemic situation was rising rapidly, resigned, and Wang Jinjian was appointed as the deputy mayor and acting mayor of Yangzhou. Jiangsu Governor Wu Zhenglong said at a press conference on the 1st that the outbreak in Yangzhou occurred early and was discovered late. The situation has not yet bottomed out, and the prevention and control situation is very serious and complicated.
As of 1 August 2021, Yangzhou had reported 54 local confirmed cases and 2 local asymptomatic infections but the official figures have been questioned by the outside world.
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Some areas have returned to the wartime state of epidemic prevention and control in early 2020
"The Paper" reported that the current round of the epidemic is severe and complicated, and some counties and cities have returned to the wartime state of epidemic prevention and control in early 2020.
The official WeChat account of Xianghe Rong Media Center in Langfang City, Hebei, "Xianghe Rong Media Release" news, from 1 August, the county resumed the epidemic prevention and control status in early 2020, and everyone must wear masks when entering public places. All communities resume the work of scanning codes in and out.
The notice stated that if there is no need to leave the county, if there are visiting relatives or friends from other provinces on the way, they will immediately persuade them to return, and foreign vehicles will persuade them to return at high speed.
According to the WeChat public account "Longnan Xihe Release" news, since 1 August, Gansu Longnan Xihe County has requested the entire county to resume its epidemic prevention and control work during the Chinese New Year in 2020.
According to the official WeChat account "Yima Today" in Yima, Henan Province, since 1 August 2021, the urban area of Yima has resumed its wartime state in early 2020. Masks must be worn in public places. All communities will resume code scanning and disinfection three times a day. The property will keep a good account, and the elderly will carry their ID cards with them.
Hebei Weichang County's WeChat public account issued a notice stating that since 2 August, the county has resumed the strictest level of epidemic prevention and control, and all personnel must wear masks when entering public places.
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Republican investigation reportedly 'proves' COVID leaked from Wuhan lab
Reporter : Lee Brown, The New York Post
Image : Rep. Michael McCaul said that the report led to beliefs that the coronavirus leaked sometime in late August or early September 2019.
COVID-19 leaked from the controversial Wuhan lab sometime before September 12, 2019 — with China’s Communist Party keeping the deadly virus under wraps in the “greatest coverup of all time,” according to a damning Republican investigation into the origins released Monday.
The report showed “a preponderance of the evidence proves that all roads lead” to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the bat-research lab already eyed as a source for the pandemic, according to Rep. Michael McCaul.
“It is our belief the virus leaked sometime in late August or early September 2019,” said McCaul, the lead Republican in the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“When they realized what happened, Chinese Communist Party officials and scientists at the WIV began frantically covering up the leak, including taking their virus database offline in the middle of the night and requesting more than $1 million for additional security,” McCaul said.
“But their coverup was too late – the virus was already spreading throughout the megacity of Wuhan,” he said of the pandemic that as of Monday has killed at least 4,225,602 people globally.
The report cited “ample evidence” that the lab’s scientists — aided by US experts and Chinese and US government funds — were working to modify coronaviruses to infect humans and such manipulation could be hidden.
“Researchers at the WIV were also able to successfully modify coronaviruses without leaving a trace as early as 2016,” McCaul insisted, citing previous research papers.
“Therefore it is no longer appropriate for anyone to dismiss the notion this virus could have been genetically modified before it leaked from the WIV,” he said.
Unusual activity was detected as July 2019, the report said, saying that a request was made for a $1.5 million overhaul of a hazardous waste treatment system for the facility, which was less than two years old.
Some of those requests included maintenance on “environmental air disinfection system” and “hazardous waste treatment system” – which would indicate concerns about how these systems meant to prevent lab leaks were functioning, the report states.
There were also “significant concerns about the lax safety protocols” and proof that scientists were conducting gain-of-function research in labs with the same safety protocols as a dentist’s office, the report claims.
The report concluded that the virus escaped “sometime prior to September 12, 2019” — the day that urgent inspections were called for the lab and its viral sequence database disappeared from the internet, said Fox News.
Later that evening, the institute published an announcement for bids for “security services” at the lab “to include gatekeepers, guards, video surveillance, security patrols, and people to handle the ‘registration and reception of foreign personnel,’” according to the report.
Major General Chen Wei, an expert in biology and chemical weapon defenses, took control of the Wuhan Institute’s biosafety level-4 lab in late 2019, according to the report.
That timing demonstrates the Chinese Communist Party “was concerned about the activity happening there as news of the virus was spreading,” the Republican report argues.
Satellite imagery of Wuhan in September and October that year showed a significant increase in hospital visits and internet searches for pneumonia-like symptoms now known to be COVID, the report says.
Still, the Military World Games continued that October and some athletes “carried the virus back to their home countries – creating one of the earliest super spreader events in the world,” McCaul said.
The report accuses Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance as well as the Wuhan lab’s “bat woman” lead scientist Shi Zhengli of lying about the origins and dismissing the lab-leak theory as a crackpot conspiracy.
Daszak should be subpoenaed to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to “answer the many questions his inconsistent – and in some instances outright and knowingly inaccurate – statements have raised,” McCaul said.
The report also called for Congress to “sanction scientists at the WIV and CCP officials who participated in this coverup.”
“This was the greatest coverup of all time and has caused the deaths of more than four million people around world, and people must be held responsible,” McCaul said.
President Biden in May ordered US intelligence agencies to accelerate their hunt for the origins of the virus and report back in 90 days.
A source familiar with current intelligence assessments told Reuters that the intelligence community has not reached a firm conclusion on whether the virus leaked from the lab.
Ref: https://nypost.com/2021/08/02/gop-investigation-proves-covid-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report
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