The epidemic has spread to many places in Beijing, with a gathering outbreak in the Golden Horse Industrial Park in Shunyi District, and official orders to medical institutions to keep it a secret from all departments everywhere. Long queues and even all-nighters have been forced to do nucleic acid testing in a major leap forward for key populations and areas, causing criticism.
Recently, long lines for nucleic acid tests were again seen in Beijing. (Video screenshot composite)
And Beijing’s official dumping of this wave of epidemic, from overseas imported to cold-chain food to imported auto parts, was ridiculed by folk as dumping a new height.
Beijing Chaoyang Shunyi District outbreak of aggregated epidemic
This wave of epidemic in Beijing, in addition to the dissemination of many places, in the Shunyi District of the Golden Horse Industrial Park showed a large outbreak of aggregation, the official admitted that the workplace of the confirmed cases in the park part of the environmental samples positive. On the 26th, Shunyi District declared a state of war.
The official announcement of the Chinese Communist Party from 24 to 28 days of confirmed cases, at least nine cases of confirmed cases in the Golden Horse Industrial Park, their family members at least two confirmed, including Zhang Moumou is also the source of this aggregated outbreak, and three cab and online taxi drivers, a total of 15 people infected with the disease, showing a convergence of outbreaks.
Beijing Shunyi outbreak and spread to many places, medium risk areas added again Shunyi District, South Faxin Town, East Haihong Village, there are four medium risk areas.
Long queues for nucleic acid testing in many places in Shunyi, Beijing. (Video screenshot)
Zhang Xizhuang village in Gaoliying, Shunyi District, Beijing was closed and people queued up in long lines from day to night for nucleic acid testing. (Video screenshot)
Nucleic acid testing “great leap forward” people long queues in the cold night
A spokesman for the Communist Party of China (CPC) Beijing government stressed that in the face of the epidemic, “we must insist on ‘people with people’ and increase screening efforts.” Nucleic acid sampling of key areas and populations in Shunyi, Chaoyang, and Xicheng districts followed, snowballing.
Beijing’s nucleic acid testing for this wave of the epidemic showed militarized action, ordered to be completed in the fastest possible time, resulting in long lines for nucleic acid testing around the city, and overtime even in the dead of winter after a major cooling, causing Beijing citizens to cry out in distress.
All staff in Xicheng District of Beijing do nucleic acid testing overnight. (Video screenshot)
According to informed sources, Beijing’s Chaoyang District health Care Committee, in response to the wave of the epidemic, asked all secondary and tertiary hospitals in the district to urgently cooperate on the 25th, including 50 medical and nursing staff from tertiary hospitals and 10 from secondary hospitals to participate in local nucleic acid sampling, and the work materials for sampling were requested to be prepared by each hospital itself.
According to public information on the mainland, 16 tertiary hospitals in Chaoyang District include: China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ditan Hospital, Chaoyang Hospital, Wangjing Hospital, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing Maternity Hospital, Beijing General Hospital of the Armed Police, 306 Hospital and others.
The secondary hospitals in Chaoyang District include: Beijing Tibetan Hospital and Beijing National Hospital, Beijing Metallurgical Hospital, China Aviation Industry Central Hospital (361 Hospital), Beijing Chaoyang District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang District Maternal and Child Health Hospital and 15 others. Therefore Chaoyang District locally deployed at least thousands of medical and nursing staff for sampling work.
Officials said on the 29th that Shunyi District has tracked down and identified 1,077 people with close contacts and activated 11 hotels for centralized isolation. The deputy mayor of Shunyi introduced the district’s total of 370 nucleic acid sampling sites, 13,600 service security personnel, 2,086 medical staff into the test. However, all of the 1,257,400 results claimed to have been issued were negative, raising questions from outside.
Officials ordered medical institutions to keep the outbreak confidential
According to sources, the Chaoyang District Health Commission recently issued an “emergency notice” asking medical institutions to strengthen their awareness of and responsibility for confidentiality and to strictly enforce confidentiality during the epidemic, including that employees of medical institutions should not release relevant documents and notices issued by the relevant departments through external emails, qq and WeChat friend circles.
And warned that the release of relevant documents through various channels will be considered a leak, will be seriously investigated and punished.
Dumping cold chain food stores issued a statement to clear
According to the latest announcement by the Beijing Health Commission, between 00:00 and 24:00 on December 29, there was one new confirmed local case in Beijing, a 4-year-old boy who now lives in Dashanzi Beili, Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District. His father had gone to the middle-risk area in Chaoyang District on December 13 and was notified by the community of home isolation on December 19.
The Beijing Health Times reports that this wave of the epidemic in Beijing is different from the new outbreak in that it is a multi-point epidemic and a localized gathering, and that the situation is serious and complex, with the cause of infection or traceability to be determined.
And virologist Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biomedical Sciences, also told China Newsweek, “There is no epidemiological link between multiple cases in Beijing now, that means there could be multiple sources, which is more worrying.” He also warned against the emergence of super-spreaders in particular.
But Chinese Communist Party officials directly dumped the blame on overseas imports, with Feng Zijian, deputy director of the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, saying on the 29th that “it must be caused by imports.”
Previously, Beijing authorities also blamed imported cold-chain food for the outbreak, claiming that the restaurant where asymptomatic infected person Ye worked was cold-chain food, implying that it was related to imported frozen food.
However, Beijing “fish you together” Catering Management Co., Ltd. issued a statement, saying that (Xicheng District) the stores involved are franchised stores, stores used by the balsa fish have gone through strict quarantine inspection of goods entry, nucleic acid test results are negative.
The “Meituan buy food” on the 25th also on another Shunyi asymptomatic infected person pay a moumou had online purchase of fresh ingredients, issued a statement to clear the relationship, said the order involved in the same batch of goods under the guidance of the disease control department, all the nucleic acid test was negative.
Epidemic spread dumped on auto parts ridiculed as reaching new heights
According to several media reports on the mainland, a large number of auto parts and raw materials were found to be positive after virus testing at the Mercedes-Benz import workshop in Shunyi District, Beijing, on the afternoon of 28th local time. And all the staff who have been in contact with it have been tested for nucleic acid.
In addition, the network rumors local Beijing Haidian District under the town government of Northwest Want issued a notice to Shunyi District, the auto parts were positive for a reason, please the streets and towns immediately to check whether there are companies importing foreign equipment and materials within the jurisdiction.
Webcast of the notice of the town government of Northwest Want in Haidian District. (Screenshot on the Internet)
The news caused a public outcry on the Internet, with some netizens ridiculing Beijing’s Shunyi District for really dumping the virus pot to a new height.
Some netizens also wrote an article ridiculing the fact that these auto parts take at least a month to be shipped to China and that these viruses are even alive, “These viruses are hard to do if they are not backed by strong party spirit.”
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