Shijiazhuang epidemic worsened, more than 20,000 people were pulled away from the quarantine, personal accounts of the recent situation

The epidemic continues to spread in Shijiazhuang Gaocheng District, which has been designated as a high-risk area. After all villagers from Xiaoguzhuang Village in Zengcun Town, the center of the local outbreak, were pulled off-site and quarantined one after another, officials ordered yesterday (Jan. 11) that more than 20,000 villagers from 12 villages in Zengcun Town be pulled off-site and quarantined. One of the isolated villagers told Voice of Hope today (Jan. 12) about his current situation.

According to land media reports, the propaganda department of Gaocheng District Party Committee told the media yesterday that it received instructions from the higher level to isolate and observe all 20,000 villagers in 12 villages in Zengcun Township.

This evening Beijing time, Mr. Zeng (a pseudonym), a villager from Nanqiaozhai village in Zengcun town, told Voice of Hope that he was isolated in a hotel in Shijiazhuang city. “We arrived yesterday” and “we are in a hotel in the city, one person to a room.”

Mr. Zeng said that their village was basically pulled away, leaving only a portion of people who cannot take care of themselves. “Those who can’t take care of themselves should still be at home. The government is counting the number of people, I don’t know how to operate them those people.” “After all of them are isolated out, there is going to be collective disinfection over there.”

He told reporters that as of late afternoon today, he had only eaten one meal, the reason may be that the staff is too small to be busy. “Should be less staff, plus today to do nucleic acid testing, noon meal was not allowed to eat, and only after the test let eat noon meal. I just knocked on the door to do the test, I do not know when the lunch can be delivered. The staff is also this batch, it is estimated that after the nucleic acid test to start to send food. We don’t know exactly, but recently there are not too many people who want to volunteer. There are also those who want to do volunteer work, but the government does not allow it. You like our region, the government is now not to let you do volunteer work, the government is afraid, because the virus is after all a long incubation period, the first may not be detected.”

Mr. Zeng said that some villagers were placed in student dormitories, the room was cold, the villagers complained but were insulted by the locals in the settlement. “Today is which village moved to Wuji or which university dormitory, finished that Wuji people …… said it, anyway, is insulting that Gao Cheng people, insulting quite powerful.”

“After all, it is a student dormitory, if you say 30, 40 years old can still, like the elderly, children in the dormitory simply can not stand. So someone sent a video, saying that this place is simply not suitable for us to live, after all, the dormitory at least 7, 8 children in a dormitory, so many people in a dormitory is still cold, let alone you alone in that a house to stay. After posting the video, a person from Wuji erupted on “Racer” (a mainland video platform). Accuse our gaoqing people what do not know how to do good, we have taken the children back, vacate the place for you to live, you still do not live. Anyway, the words are really hard to hear.”

Mr. Zeng said helplessly, in addition to being insulted, they are also being afraid to avoid it. “A lot of people are hiding ah, hide far away.”

He said it is not yet known exactly how long to isolate.

A staff member of Zengcun town government confirmed to the station today that the transfer work is still continuing. When asked about the situation in Dongqiaozhai village, the staff member said, “Where exactly, anyway, now the car has not come yet, do not know yet.” “There is a hotel, there is a school, it is not possible what place, now we can not make the decision.”

Land media reports show that the transfer is taking place around the clock. Zhao Xiaoyan, a villager from Zeng Village, was awakened from her sleep by the village “loudspeaker” in the early morning of the 11th – “All villagers should pack their luggage, register at the entrance of the village, and follow the arrangements for a unified bus ride to a different location for centralized Isolation observation”.

Yang Mengfan, a villager from Zeng Village, told Lu Media on the 11th, “The latest notice is to go in the order of the village brigade and village group, my family is in the last group row, may have to wait until the latter part of the night.”

11 morning more than 8 o’clock, a Zeng village villagers WeChat group issued a notice that “today a day will be our village relocation transfer”, after the evacuation of personnel, the village every day to carry out strong disinfection.

The notice also said that people should not panic, centralized isolation sites with specialized medical staff. However, the notice did not mention where to move to and when to return home.

Videos on the mainland social media platform Weibo show villagers walking out in groups with their luggage, and many people have gathered on the roadside. Buses and large buses were parked on both sides of the road.

It is reported that the town of Zengcun is located in the northwest end of Gaocheng District, and Zhengding, Xinle junction, adjacent to Zhengding International Airport, under the jurisdiction of 20 administrative villages more than 60,000 people, 204 provincial highway through the town.

On January 2, the first confirmed case of the epidemic was found in the village of Xiaoguozhuang in Zengcun Town.

On the night of the 10th, the last batch of villagers isolated off-site were picked up by 28 buses.

According to the official notification, as of 24:00 on January 11, the epidemic in Shijiazhuang was distributed in 12 counties, of which 76.39% of cases were in Gao Cheng District, 95.62% of cases in Gao Cheng District occurred in Zengcheng Town, Shijiazhuang Yuhua District, Chang’an District, Qiaoxi District, etc. were mostly epidemic, and Xingtai Nangong City presented a localized aggregation of the epidemic.

From 0 to 12:00 on the 12th, Shijiazhuang had 21 new local confirmed cases and 12 new asymptomatic infections.

From January 2 to 12:00 on January 12, Shijiazhuang reported a cumulative total of 309 confirmed cases and 235 asymptomatic infections.

However, because the Chinese Communist Party has always falsified its epidemic data, outsiders fear that the actual situation is worse.