From December 1, from the District Jiekou Street and other six streets and towns within the primary and secondary stages of the school will resume offline teaching, kindergarten children to return to school normally, off-site training institutions to resume offline teaching in an orderly manner, hosting, child care institutions to resume services in an orderly manner.
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At the same time, Chongqing Municipality of the central city of the social surface management, in accordance with the classification of zoning, from point to point, and gradually liberalize the idea of the district, the community as a unit to create an epidemic-free district, epidemic-free community, the people can be within it in an orderly manner, other districts and counties in the premise of the risk of controllable and gradually realize the normalization of prevention and control. Guangzhou, Beijing and other places for some close contacts or positive infected people in special groups allowed home isolation.
Data on the epidemic released by the National Health Commission showed that since November, the number of indigenous infections in the country has been growing fast, with more than 35,000 new cases of newly crowned indigenous infections on Nov. 30th. The country has had 16 consecutive days of more than 20,000 new native infections per day, with nearly eight days of new native infections topping 30,000 cases.
Vice Premier Sun Chunlan pointed out at a symposium held at the National Health Commission on Nov. 30 that with the weakening of the pathogenicity of the Omicron virus, the popularization of vaccination, and the accumulation of experience in prevention and control, China's prevention and control of the epidemic are facing new situations and new tasks. Sun Chunlan fully affirmed the important contribution of experts in the prevention and control, and hoped to continue to play a professional advantage, carry forward the spirit of science, deepen the research around key issues, and contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic.
Guangzhou epidemic overall controllable, there are conditions to realize the lifting of control
"Guangzhou epidemic recently remained at a high level, the epidemic from the Haizhu District within the local aggregation of outbreaks, the development of Haizhu, Tianhe, Panyu Baiyun and other multi-districts, multiple points of emanation and aggregation of epidemic intertwined superimposed on the city's districts, the city's flow between the cross-propagation of the more common. " Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission deputy director, spokesman Zhang Yi said at a conference on November 30th.
The day's conference informed that Haizhu District on the 29th, 6183 new cases of infection, the number of new cases per day in key districts continue to decline, the new cases are still concentrated in Datang, Kanglu and other districts, Huazhou, Jianghai, Nanzhou Street, the number of new infected people is higher.
The conference pointed out that the districts are further optimizing prevention and control measures, including scientific and precise delineation of high-risk areas, precise epidemiological investigations, scientific nucleic acid testing, and isolation management of close contacts.
Specifically, those who meet the conditions for unblocking should be unblocked in time, and the management of blocking and controlling should be fast-blocked and should be unblocked as much as possible. In addition, the scope of close contact screening should not be expanded arbitrarily, the temporal and spatial accompaniment should not be used as a criterion for determining close contacts, and nucleic acid testing should not be carried out on a full scale according to administrative regions.
30th afternoon, Guangzhou many districts have announced the lifting of temporary control areas in the district.
Which, Tianhe District instantly lifted the control measures in the temporary control area of Member Village, Changxing and other streets, from the District lifted the temporary control measures in Jiangpu Street and other six towns and streets. Panyu District and Baiyun District are lifted all the epidemic prevention and control of temporary control areas, according to the management of low-risk areas. Zengcheng District and Huadu District have adjusted parts of several streets and towns to low-risk zones. Haizhu District, the most serious of the current round of outbreaks in Guangzhou, has proposed that the entire region be managed as a low-risk area, and that the implementation of "personal protection and avoidance of aggregation" preventive and control measures be carried out.
"Before this, I was in the neighborhood near the area has been controlled for about half a month. 30 afternoon conference opened shortly after the outside street before the enclosure of the tin wall has been removed one after another, many people out of their homes, the feeling of a long time out of the human world is back." Chen Han, a resident living in Guangzhou's Haizhu district, told China News Weekly.
A number of experts told China News Weekly that the lifting of temporary control zones for epidemic prevention and control in many districts of Guangzhou is a positive step in the implementation of the "20" measures.
Since Oct. 22, the cumulative number of locally infected people in Guangzhou has exceeded 130,000, with the daily increase in the number of locally infected people starting to decline after reaching more than 9,000 on Nov. 17, according to the Chinese newsweekly.
According to Guangzhou's Nov. 30 briefing, more than 6,900 new cases of native infections were reported in Guangzhou on Nov. 29, with 68 cases found in the community. Among them, there were more than 6,400 asymptomatic cases, accounting for 92.27 percent of the total; more than 280 cases of light and ordinary types, accounting for 4 percent of the total; and no patients of heavy and critical types.
"Guangzhou's current new cases of infection, social distribution accounted for a very small proportion. Taking the data on the 29th as an example, for a big city with a population of 10 million, the risk of social surface infection of 68 cases is very small. Therefore, the overall direction of the epidemic in Guangzhou is controllable, and there are conditions to realize the lifting of control." Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong's School of Biomedical Sciences and an expert in virology, analyzed to China News Weekly.
Besides Guangzhou, the number of new infections in Beijing and Chongqing is also at a high level. According to the epidemic data released by the National Health Commission, on the 29th, the mainland added more than 37,000 new indigenous infections, including 4,522 new infections in Beijing on a single day and 7,833 new infections in Chongqing, which together accounted for more than 12,000 people, accounting for more than 30% of the mainland's new indigenous infections on that day.
According to the "Chongqing release" official microblogging released on November 30, from 27 to 29 nearly three days of the situation, the Chongqing Municipality daily new infections were 9,612 cases, 8,721 cases, 7,792 cases, showing a downward trend day by day. For three consecutive days, the number of cases dropped by about 1,000 per day. The proportion of new infections in non-high-risk areas in the central city was 4 percent, 3.15 percent and 3.2 percent, also declining day by day.
The State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a news conference on Nov. 29, saying that at present, localities are doing a good job of preventing and controlling the epidemic. According to the results of the test, flow adjustment to do a good job of risk research and judgment, accurate determination of the risk area; sealing and control management should be fast sealing and solve should be solved as much as possible, to reduce the inconvenience caused by the epidemic to the public.
Multiple places to explore home isolation
Guangzhou outbreak conference on November 30, pointed out that close contacts in principle, the implementation of centralized isolation and observation, in line with the conditions of home isolation of close contacts to implement home isolation. Dongguan also announced on December 1, time and space accompanied by not as a close contact standard, eligible close contacts to implement home isolation.
Jin Dongyan said, after the discovery of infected or close contacts, should be arranged according to the wishes of residents and the actual conditions of the square cabin hospital transit isolation, for example, there is a surplus of separate rooms in the house for isolation of residents, can be isolated at home. Guangzhou is currently following this direction.
November 19, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Group issued the "New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Home Isolation Medical Observation Guidelines" and "New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Home Health Surveillance Guidelines", clear home isolation medical observation, home health surveillance personnel into the community grid management. For the empty nests living alone in the elderly, patients with underlying diseases, pregnant women, hemodialysis patients and other special people in the home isolation medical observation, home health monitoring, the establishment of accounts and do a good job of related services.
According to the two aforementioned guidelines, special groups of people in close confinement, close confinement personnel and inbound personnel after the lifting of centralized isolation, spillover personnel in high-risk zones, and other personnel assessed by professionals as incapable of centralized isolation for medical observation will be placed under home isolation for medical observation; high-risk position employees who have finished closed-loop operations, discharged from hospitals of newly-crowned pneumonia-infected patients, and other personnel assessed by professionals as requiring home health monitoring, will be placed under home isolation for medical observation. Those who need home health monitoring after professional assessment will be put under home health monitoring.
On November 25, a positive mother in Guangzhou to take care of her depressed son, hoping not to be transported, after coordination was allowed as a special group of people at home isolation. November 27, Beijing Chaoyang District, Beijing Huigu Sunshine District, a 2-year-old boy diagnosed, because he has asthma, neighbors have suggested that he isolation at home, and ultimately by the same unit of the neighbors signed a permission, the street agreed to not go to the square cabin, at home isolation.
"Close contacts who meet the conditions for home isolation can be isolated at home." Chongqing Municipal Health Commission deputy director Li Shian at a news conference held on November 30th, introduced to some special patients, such as serious underlying diseases, some elderly, some pregnant and pregnant or lactating women, the family has the conditions of isolation can be isolated at home. Home conditions, generally with a separate living room, preferably with an independent bathroom. During the period of home isolation, do not have contact with family members, eat in their rooms.
Li Shian suggests that family members can put a table or stool outside the isolation room at home and put the needed supplies in a contact-free manner, so that they can do a good job of protection. On the other hand, community workers will monitor the health of people in home isolation to make sure they are not infected.
Antigen, drugs, vaccination should keep up
"If the reduction of nucleic acid testing, it is necessary to do more antigen testing to supplement, such as the distribution of antigen testing reagents to residents free of charge, or in the drugstore to put more antigen testing reagents for the public to buy." Jin Dongyan said, can be issued to high-risk areas of the population, home confinement personnel, such as antigen detection reagents, so that their own test, the latter, if even test a few days of antigen, the results are negative, should be made to return to normal living conditions in a timely manner.
A well-known virologist in China told China News Weekly that people who are at risk of home isolation or infection should always have some medicines at home, which can help eliminate symptoms.
It is worth noting that a few days ago, many places across the country adjusted the sales of four types of medicines: antipyretic, cough suppressant, antiviral and antibiotic.
November 26 around, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Taizhou, Lishui, Huzhou and other cities in Zhejiang Province, according to the Office of Epidemic Prevention and Control of the documents required to release the "four types of drugs" the latest sales requirements, the customer to the retail pharmacy to buy antipyretic and other epidemic monitoring drugs, "four types of drugs" Must cooperate with the pharmacy to complete the registration of real-name information, within 24 hours of purchase to complete a nucleic acid sampling. The health code for those who have not sampled within the time limit will be assigned a yellow code, which will be automatically changed to a green code after sampling. Retail pharmacies should be in the sale of the "four categories" of drugs within two hours after the real-name registration information reported to the Provincial Drug Administration retail pharmacy epidemic prevention and control monitoring alert system.
On Nov. 28, the Market Supervision Bureau of Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, and the Joint Prevention and Control Command of the Epidemic in Jiangyan District, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, both issued notices calling for a halt to the sale of the "four categories of drugs." "As far as possible to open up the purchase of drugs for the treatment of colds, fever and other drugs, so that the public can facilitate the purchase." Jin Dongyan said.
In addition, it is easy to overlook that the low vaccination rate of the elderly is still a weak link in the current epidemic prevention.
November 29, the State Council joint prevention and control mechanism news conference, the National Disease Control Bureau of Health Immunization Division Director Xia Gang said that as of November 28, the number of elderly people over the age of 80 years old new crown vaccination coverage and the number of people throughout the vaccination, respectively, accounted for more than 80 years of age of the population of 76.6%, 65.8%. 80 years of age and older people to complete the strengthening of immunization 14.456 million people, about 40% of the population of 80 years of age. About 40.38% of the population over 80 years of age, which means that there is still a considerable shortfall in the establishment of an immunization barrier for the elderly.
On the same day, the National Health Commission issued a program to strengthen vaccination for the elderly against the new coronavirus, which called for accelerating the increase in the vaccination rate of people over 80 years of age, and continuing to increase the rate of vaccination of people aged 60-79 years.
According to the Guangzhou Epidemic Conference held on November 20, it was announced that since the launch of the new coronavirus vaccination work in December 2020, Guangzhou has vaccinated a total of 22.06 million people, 55.5 million doses, and 14.7 million people have completed the booster immunization. However, there are still more than 110,000 people over the age of 60 in Guangzhou who have not received the first dose of the new crown vaccine, and more than 220,000 who have not received a booster shot.
"The key now is the need to first raise the vaccination rate of the elderly population, at least to ensure that basically all have had three shots, which can significantly reduce the probability of serious illnesses and deaths in the elderly population after infection with the new crown." Jin Dongyan said that under the premise of improving the level of vaccination of the elderly population, anti-epidemic measures can be further optimized. For example, the new crown into the outpatient clinic, symptomatic go to the hospital for treatment, asymptomatic home to recover on their own.
Reporter: Niuhuo