Mainland Xiaokang.com reported on February 18 that Lao Ma, the second case of family gathering in Taiwan in the central part of the new coronary pneumonia occurred. Three relatives and friends of the driver of the 60-year-old white-label car in his death were confirmed one after another. Changhua County Mayor Wang Huimei led the Health Director Ye Yanbo to publicly explain the situation of the epidemic tracking and investigation on the morning of the 18th, emphasizing that this is not a community infection but a family gathering, and calling on the people to cooperate with the Central Command Center to prevent the epidemic without panic.
Changhua County Mayor Wang Huimei (from right) and Health Director Ye Yanbo explained the second family gathering case in the central region. The epidemic tracking and investigation of the epidemic
Taiwan China Times reported that the dead 62-year-old white-label driver went to Taichung Airport to receive a Taiwanese businessman from Zhejiang on the 11th of last month. After that, his 57-year-old brother, 88-year-old mother and 31-year-old niece were diagnosed one after another. It was analyzed that it was infection with the same living and the infection with the family dinner on January 27.
After a complete investigation of the epidemic and contact history, there are currently 335 people who are independent health management, including 53 car dealers in the deceased, 128 in medical institutions and other institutions, 31 in restaurants, 3 relatives and friends in the index case, and 120 passengers including 3 Taiwanese businessmen. The total number of people who need to be quarantined at home is 49, including 42 medical institutions and 7 family members in individual cases.
Health Director Ye Yanbo said that the deceased was taken to the hospital by ambulance on February 3 and was admitted to the negative pressure isolation ward for severe influenza. After a test was conducted before his death, he was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia. On the 25th, he was going to the ward for an interview, but he passed away due to worsening of the condition.
The Health Bureau obtained his mobile phone through his family. The police reviewed Tonglian before he was hospitalized. According to the telecommunications company, all the epidemic investigation personnel called each other for tracking on two days on the weekend. The farthest drivers were from Tainan and Pingtung. A total of 117 people were tracked and 9 people had symptoms were tracked. All of them had completed the inspection, one was negative, and the remaining inspection results continued to be tracked.
Ye Yanbo said that three people called the car from Zhejiang, Shanghai and Guangdong to enter the Taichung Airport. Among them, when the Taiwanese businessmen from Zhejiang returned to Taiwan on January 22, they did not meet the epidemic monitoring regulations at the time. However, after he returned to Taiwan, he followed the records of five visits in two clinics one after another, and confirmed that he had coughed since he got off the plane, and had a cough for 20 days. Although he had not developed the disease and had been cured, the examination was negative and there was no virus, according to epidemiological perspective, he was the most likely source of infection and was currently waiting for the NTU test to confirm the antibody.
Ye Yanbo also affirmed the in-hospital infection control capabilities of medical institutions in Changhua County and hospitals that treat the deceased. Therefore, when they went to the hospital emergency room and intensive care unit for a line investigation on the 25th, there was no risk of infection. The medical staff in the clinics that Taiwanese businessmen have been to have not shown any symptoms for 14 days, and the medical staff in the hospitals who were admitted to the hospital were also negative, but they are still in home isolation and observation. Please be at ease without excessive panic. There are many incorrect information on the Internet. If the people have any doubts, they can actively ask the Health Bureau for confirmation.
Changhua County Mayor Wang Huimei emphasized that Changhua has long announced that everyone must wear surgical masks when entering and leaving the hospital, and infection control in primary medical institutions has continued to be strictly implemented. Most of the possible contacts in this family gathering case have passed the 14-day observation period, calling on the public not to panic, and not to spread incorrect information indiscriminately, which is not helpful in preventing the epidemic, abide by the principle of two or three, take good protection, and everyone works together to fight the epidemic.
Wang Huimei said that she thanked the staff in the police unit and the health bureau for making a complete tracking and investigation in almost the spirit of case handling, so that the epidemic is under tracking and control. She emphasized that Changhua County cooperates with the central government to prevent the epidemic and unify control and control. If the central government believes that school starts simultaneously as scheduled, it will not be postponed. At present, it is still considered that there are more than 40,000 children's masks in the county, and the stock will be announced, calling on parents to go to purchase if they feel it is necessary, which is more at ease.
