The epidemic in Hebei Province has been prolonged, officials reported yesterday that there were 37 new confirmed local cases in the mainland, including 33 cases in Hebei Province, where the epidemic is serious, and another 39 cases of asymptomatic infection, including many teachers and students. In Hebei Province, more than 300 local infections were reported in six days, but the source has not yet been confirmed. According to Tong Zhaohui, an expert in rescue and treatment from the National health Commission, the outbreak in Hebei may have formed a certain scale of invisible transmission.
Beijing’s Tongzhou district, which borders on Hebei, declared a “state of war” for community prevention and control, and many highways were temporarily closed. The official announcement of Shijiazhuang in the evening, the city completed the task of full nucleic acid testing, home for seven days, people do not move, do not gather, do not go out of the community and village.
The National Health Commission informed yesterday that the previous day, thirty-seven new local cases, Hebei accounted for thirty-three cases, Liaoning two cases, Beijing one, Heilongjiang one. The Hebei Provincial Health Commission pointed out that thirty-one of the new local cases were confirmed in Shijiazhuang and two in Xingtai. Shijiazhuang also had 35 new cases of asymptomatic infections on the same day, and Xingtai had four more. The situation in Shijiazhuang is serious, but former mayor Deng Peiran was investigated for corruption last month. Ma Yujun, director of the Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Department, was appointed yesterday as Shijiazhuang’s vice mayor and acting mayor to lead the fight against the epidemic.
Since the second day of this month, Hebei Province has reported a total of 306 local infections (confirmed and asymptomatic) in six days. The confirmed cases reported the day before include two middle school teachers and a 13-year-old high school student in Zengcun Township, Gaocheng District. Among the confirmed cases, there were also people who traveled several times on high speed trains, long distance trains and buses and subways.
With medical teams from Jiangsu and Zhejiang coming to Hebei, Hebei has achieved full coverage of nucleic acid testing capacity, with a daily single test capacity of 710,000, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai are expected to complete all nucleic acid tests by today. As of the day before yesterday, Shijiazhuang has tested more than four million eight hundred and fifty thousand people and detected two hundred and eighty-nine positive samples.
Feng Zijian, deputy director of the CDC, estimates that the outbreak may have spread for some time in the areas concerned before being detected, possibly creating a certain scale of invisible transmission. In Shijiazhuang to guide the work of the National Health Commission rescue and treatment experts Tong Zhaohui said that the spread of the epidemic in Hebei is relatively fast, most patients are in relatively stable condition, more non-symptomatic infected people, so far there are five seriously ill patients, the condition is more stable, still to be closely observed.
Currently Shijiazhuang city personnel vehicles are not allowed to leave the city, said Li Qi, director of the Hebei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “At present, the city of Shijiazhuang closed management, effectively cut off the risk of the spread of the epidemic, the future from the nucleic acid test may appear positive cases, but are within the scope of control, the risk of the spread of the epidemic is low.” Li Qi pointed out that the outbreak was caused by a virus imported from abroad, the specific source is still being investigated in depth, and there is a correlation between all the positive cases so far.
According to Shijiazhuang official notification of the epidemic activity trajectory, there are a number of confirmed patients to participate in weekly activities, for participation in what activities, the People’s Daily’s Health Times revealed that in addition to wedding banquets, the village has some religious villagers gathered every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday in a family for religious activities, mostly the elderly. Yesterday, the epidemic prevention and control in the religious sector in Beijing escalated, with one hundred and fifty-five religious activity sites in the city suspended from the public and group religious activities.
Beijing’s Tongzhou district, which borders Hebei province, declared a “state of war” for community prevention and control in response to the continued spread of the epidemic. Many Beijing-bound highways, including Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Kun, were closed. The Hebei authorities require proof of residence, proof of employment, and a 14-day nucleic acid test to commute to work along the Beijing-Hebei border.
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