Let’s focus again on the outbreak in mainland China. The hardest hit area, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, has seen multiple school teachers and students confirmed and community infections in the past week, with an expanded scope. In addition, more than 30% of the confirmed cases in Shijiazhuang were tested three to five times before showing positive.
According to incomplete statistics, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Shijiazhuang was 38 cases involving school teachers and employees, including 27 students, 5 teachers, and 6 school employees, 3 of whom worked in the school cafeteria. This number does not include the number of asymptomatic infected, unreported cases.
According to the website, the “Seventh Middle School of Gaocheng District” in Xiaoguozhuang Village, a local middle school with a high promotion rate, was first found infected on January 5 by a 15-year-old boarding middle school student, followed by students, teachers, and school cafeteria workers.
The Xiaoguozhuang Elementary School, which is next to the seventh middle school, and the Nanzhai Village Elementary School, which is in the next village, both had several students infected with the disease. After a teacher of a middle school in Xiaoguozhuang village was notified of the disease on January 7, the district where he lived was closed and cases were reported in the same district.
The newest and most popular of these is the “newest and most popular”. The teacher must have been pulled away.
The youngest known patient is 4 years old and attends kindergarten in Liu Jia Zuo village center, and was found to be infected on January 13. There are several other college students who are studying at Langfang Normal College in Hebei, Handan Vocational and Technical College, a university in Shijiazhuang, and students studying at a university in Nantong and Wuhan, Jiangsu.
Many places in Hebei are rushing to build square cabin hospitals. The video shows that on January 13, 3,000 sets of isolation cubicles, transported from Tangshan in Hebei to Zhengding County in Shijiazhuang, are being built by workers overnight.
The Xiaoxiang Morning Post reports that the wave of the epidemic is very complex, with many cases in Hebei being tested positive only after 3 to 5 nucleic acid tests, with some patients, even after 4 or 5 negative tests, being tested positive only subsequently. Experts believe that this situation generally occurs in high-risk areas or key populations. However, it also indicates that the virus is very cunning and exacerbates the risk of spread.
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