↑Aerial photography of " Costa Selena " cruise ship (photo taken on January 25) Photo by Li Shidong
◇On the cruise ship "Costa Selena" at the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port , 15 people showed fever symptoms, and a total of 148 Hubei passengers were on board. A contest with the crisis began in a time-by-second
"Outlook" News Weekly reporter Zhang Yuqi Li Kun
On January 25, 2020, at 10 a.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year, over an anchorage area of Bohai Bay , a B-7005 helicopter kept hovering. Its destination was the cruise ship "Cosida Selena" temporarily stopped here.
The captain of the flight mission was 50-year-old Li Shidong. At this moment, he has not received an order from the emergency response team on the cruise ship. In order to prevent fuel from running out, he decided to temporarily land the helicopter on the deck of a cargo ship in the nearby waters and use the onboard maritime radio to try to contact the cruise pilot urgently.
Li Shidong, who has more than 20 years of flight experience, has experienced countless emergency rescue operations, but at this moment, those keywords continue to pop up in his mind: "Wuhan", "fever", and "more than 4,000 people". These keywords are all about the huge cruise ship in his sight.
"What exactly happened on the ship?"
During the Spring Festival under the COVID-19 epidemic, a thrilling emergency response operation has revolved around the "Costa Selena". All emergency response personnel, including Li Shidong, are working hard to find the answer to this question.
Task
8:00 on November 24th, the New Year's Eve of the Chinese family is the time for reunion. Wang Shikui, the second section chief of the Tianjin Dongjiang Customs Tourism Inspection Section 2, who was on duty, poured himself a cup of tea. Just as he was about to taste the "New Year's flavor", a rapid phone call suddenly rang out - a ship agent report, 15 people were on the cruise ship "Costa Selena" at the home port of Tianjin International Cruise on the morning of the 25th, and there were 148 Hubei passengers on the ship!
In order to respond to the epidemic, Tianjin City launched a level one response to major public health emergencies 18 hours ago. The "Costa Selena" is getting closer and closer. Wang Shikui realized that the situation was not good. While inquiring about the situation on the cruise ship, he reported the situation urgently.
, a giant ship known as the "Dream Palace on the Sea", was loaded with 3,706 passengers and more than a thousand crew members. On January 20, it departed from the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port and headed to Japan for a round-trip journey of 6 days and 5 nights. Its total tonnage is 114,500 tons, the deck is 14 floors, and the total number of rooms is 1,500...
Behind a series of data, a crisis is coming, and a contest with the crisis is also beginning every second.
html at 22:00 on the 124th, Tianjin Binhai New District, where Tianjin International Cruise Home Port is located. Dou Kebin, deputy director of the Medical Administration and Management Office of the District Health Commission, just attended an epidemic prevention and control meeting and was about to go home to spend the Spring Festival with his family when he suddenly received a meeting notice that a cruise ship docked tomorrow morning may have an epidemic. Yang Maorong, deputy secretary of the Binhai New District Party Committee, district mayor, and commander-in-chief of the Binhai New District Prevention and Control Command, held an emergency meeting to discuss the handling plan. html At 1:00 a.m. on the 125th, after analyzing all aspects of the situation, the Tianjin COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command issued an order: In accordance with relevant management regulations, the "Costa Selena" cruise ship is stationed at the anchorage of the anchorage will not enter the port; immediately organize experts and medical workers to board the ship for sampling and conduct epidemiological investigation, grasp the on-site situation as soon as possible, and provide a basis for further decision-making; at the same time, emergency coordination of helicopter support.Li Shidong, who had just finished eating dumplings at home, immediately received an emergency notice, asking his Tianjin branch of CITIC Ocean Helicopter Co., Ltd. to send helicopters to support the "Costa Selena" cruise disposal operation.
"'Thousand People Cruise Line''Wuhan'''Fever'. I was stunned when I heard these keywords. Calm down and think about it. Considering the severity of the epidemic and the company's situation, I will fly." As the general manager of the Tianjin branch, Li Shidong decided to carry out the flight mission himself. He drove from home to the airport and kept communicating with the emergency response team on a telephone basis.At 2 a.m. on the 125th, an emergency response group responsible for boarding the ship was discussed and decided by Tianjin Customs and medical experts. Taking into account the round trip time, safety risks, the amount of materials carried, sample delivery and other factors, the plan to board the ship on the tugboat for samples, and then escort the samples ashore by helicopter.
Dou Kebin called a medical backbone overnight, and soon summoned 10 medical staff and invited Yang Wanjie, an expert in critical care medicine at Binhai Hospital of Peking University, to join.
Binhai New Area relevant departments simultaneously implement the "double plan": on the one hand, arrange cruise home port to prepare for passengers to disembark, coordinate the new area bus company to urgently dispatch 54 buses to provide pick-up and drop-off services for passengers; on the other hand, once the epidemic is confirmed, prepare for the entire ship to be isolated and observed, and dispatch supply ships to supply daily necessities in a timely manner.
html At 5 a.m. on the 125th, Tianjin International Cruise Home Port. More than 20 people including customs personnel, experts, medical staff, etc. gathered. Before departure, everyone expressed that they would not retreat and resolutely completed the task.boarding personnel continued to discuss the details of the disposal plan on the tugboat, and decided to be divided into two groups. Customs personnel focused on fever personnel, conducting temperature measurements, epidemiological investigations, medical screening and sampling; medical personnel were responsible for conducting medical inspections of the personnel on board, doing a good job in temperature measurements, and focusing on Hubei passengers.
There are still two hours before sunrise, and the tugboat quickly disappeared on the sea after leaving the port. The magnificent ocean was shrouded in the darkness of the night. Dou Kebin looked out the window and no one knew what he would face next.
boarding the ship
25 around 7:00, a red sun gradually rose from the east. On the cruise ship "Costa Selena", Xiao Jing, a passenger from Wuhan, woke up. She woke up her sleeping daughter, "Baby, we are going to get off the boat today!" There was no signal on the boat, but when she was berthing in Japan, Xiao Jing had heard that Wuhan had blocked the passage from Han. When she came out of Japan, many signs had the words "Wuhan" written on it. She and her daughter were always focused on body temperature. The Spring Festival Gala had a temporary increase in the fight against the epidemic the night before. All of this made her anxious. She just wanted to end the trip quickly and go home quickly.
When I was having breakfast, "At this time, the radio broadcast on the ship rang, saying that Tianjin Customs had already boarded the ship for inspection and could not dock for the time being. Please wait in their respective rooms." Xiao Jing recalled that the passengers were talking, "It seems that there were fever patients on the ship", "I heard that people wearing protective clothing were on the ship for inspection", "If an infected person was found, no one would be able to go ashore", and panic slowly spread among the crowd.
Half an hour ago, the emergency response team had installed the temporary command center in a small restaurant.
A problem is placed in front of the emergency response team: Should we concentrate passengers on the deck, or go to every room to check? Dou Kebin recalled that after repeated discussions, they believed that the speed of concentrating passengers on the deck was very fast, but the risk of aggregation was too high, so they still allowed all passengers to stay in their rooms, and the group members checked them one by one.
After putting on protective clothing and preparing for self-protection, Dou Kebin gathered 10 medical staff together and said to everyone, "Since we have already arrived, this is a battle that cannot be lost. We must monitor one by one, and we must not miss one, and we cannot make mistakes and miss one. Put it off the ship."
At this time, in addition to the cruise ship, Li Shidong also took a helicopter from Tanggu Airport to conduct his first survey flight. There is no apron on the cruise ship, but there is an area on the port side of the stern to carry out winch operations. Li Shidong decided to use helicopter winch operations to retrieve the samples of the heat-generating personnel.
"Initially told me that the sample would be taken around 8 a.m.," said Li Shidong.
However, when the investigation really begins, everyone realizes the difficulty of work. Each corridor on each floor was long and could not see at a glance. On both sides were cabins that seemed to have never ended. The team members took the list one by one and strictly investigated the "Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Pneumonia Infected by the New Coronavirus (Trial Third Edition)" used at that time.Most people cooperate very well, but many passengers who traveled with each other sometimes need to check across levels and cannot complete the inspection within the original scheduled time.
Xiao Jing and her daughter stayed in the room, panicked and anxious, but couldn't do anything. Suddenly someone was talking outside, Xiao Jing pushed open the door, and there were two "fully armed" medical staff checking each room on the other side of the corridor.
"This should be a scene that only exists in the movie. It's the first time I saw a person wearing protective clothing in real life." said 49-year-old Xiao Jing.
Time passed minute by minute, and the mist in the goggles of medical staff and customs personnel became heavier and heavier. The clothes inside had been soaked in sweat, and their breathing became more and more difficult, their physical strength decreased, and their steps began to be heavy.
time was close to 10 a.m. Customs personnel completed the investigation of 15 people who claimed to have fever symptoms, one of whom was diagnosed with chickenpox and no samples were taken, and the other 14 people collected pharyngeal swab samples. I thought the sampling work could come to an end, but on another floor, in the cabin No. 6446, there was a new situation.
During a medical inspection, medical staff found that a family of three from Wuhan in the cabin had abnormal body temperature, the child's temperature was 37.4℃, and the mother had runny nose symptoms. The disposal personnel were highly alert and required the three to strictly implement the cabin isolation measures. After conducting detailed epidemiological investigations, all samples were collected. At this time, the number of pharyngeal swab samples collected was adjusted to 17 people.
htmlAt around 10:00 on the 125th, Li Shidong finally received the order and took off from Tanggu Airport. The helicopter arrived over the cruise ship's waters, circled and landed on the deck near the cargo ship.10:45, "You can come and take samples!" Li Shidong received the order to take off for the third time, arrived at the port winch point of the stern port of the "Costa Selena", hovered above the deck, and the wincher on the aircraft lowered the hook. Members of the emergency team carefully hung the yellow specimen box that had placed 17 test samples on the hook, watching the specimen box slowly lift off and enter the cabin.
close the hatch door, and the wincher immediately installs another layer of protection on the specimen box. As the plane returned, the wincher held the sample box tightly with both hands until the helicopter landed.
htmlAt around 11:00 on the 125th, the sample car of the Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention was parked at the helicopter airport to wait. As soon as the helicopter landed, Li Shidong immediately handed over the sample box to the staff of the CDC. Outside the airport, police cars drove the road, and the sample car from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rushed towards the Tianjin Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At around 12 o'clock, the sample was successfully delivered and testing began."Happy New Year"
sample box was sent off the cruise ship, the emergency response team did not relax. They conducted further investigations on 148 Hubei-born passengers on the ship, while calming the passengers' emotions and waiting for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's test results.
After having a simple lunch on the boat, Xiao Jing and her daughter were still waiting in the room, and she was silently calculating the worst result.
html At 15:30 on the 125th, after testing by the Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory, all 17 samples were negative. Li Shidong, who learned the news, let out a long sigh. htmlAt around 18:00 on the 125th, the Tianjin Municipal COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command made a decision to agree to the cruise ship entering the port. Passengers also learned that all the sample tests were negative, and they heard that the cruise ships could finally make their way to port, and everyone's mood suddenly became much more relaxed. html At around 20:00 on the 125th, the cruise ship stopped at the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port. After the docking work was completed, the passengers began to disembark. Tianjin Dongjiang Customs conducted temperature checks on passengers one by one. The Binhai New Area Transportation Bureau organized the Binhai Bus Group and the Binhai Branch of the Municipal Transportation Group to provide tourism bus capacity guarantee.Some passengers were transferred to the Donghai Road Station of the light rail, the Tianjin Station of the railway , and the Tianjin Binhai International Airport. Some passengers who need to stay in sight were transferred to designated hotels.
htmlAround 123:00, all 3,706 passengers left the cruise home port. html At 00:15 on the 126th, the Tianjin Municipal Health Commission issued a message that as of 00:15 on January 26, the emergency response work of the "Cosida Selena" cruise ship was completed, and the work of unsubscription and reissue from outbound passengers, centralized transfer of inbound passengers, and on-site emergency evacuation of the cruise home port was successfully completed. The overall process was stable and orderly.At this time, the Tianjin COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command issued the first instruction less than 24 hours have passed.
Xiao Jing and her daughter had dinner after staying in the designated hotel. After taking the temperature, they went to bed with peace of mind. "I have been floating on the cruise ship before, but now I can finally sleep well on the land," she said. All visitors who stayed in the observation area, including Xiao Jing, have safely passed the quarantine period.
Dou Kebin disembarked with the passengers. Exhausted, he returned home and saw his family immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year. He seemed to have a lot of words to say to his family, but he didn't know where to start, and it was condensed into a sentence "Happy New Year".
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