On December 25, the Zhejiang Province new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic prevention and control press conference (the 124th) and the Hangzhou new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic prevention and control press conference (the 60th) were held respectively to release answers to issues related to recent epidemic prevention and control work.
Yu Xinle, deputy director of the Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group and deputy director of the Provincial Health Commission, introduced the overall situation of the current epidemic prevention and control work in Zhejiang Province. He mentioned that in the past week, the highest number of visits to fever clinics in Zhejiang in a single day was 408,400. There are currently 13,583 COVID-19 cases being treated in hospitals across Zhejiang, including 1 severe case caused by COVID-19 (currently in stable condition), and 242 severe and critical cases caused by underlying diseases (accounting for 1.78%).
As of December 24, Zhejiang has opened a total of 6,595 fever clinics. Based on the calculation that each clinic receives 90 patients per day, the maximum daily capacity of Zhejiang's fever clinics can reach 600,000.
"At present, the number of newly reported positive people in Zhejiang has exceeded 1 million. Based on recent case monitoring and community sampling survey results, the infection situation is predicted. It is expected that the peak in Zhejiang will arrive early and enter a high plateau period around New Year's Day, during which the number of new positive people per day will reach a maximum of 2 million. The peak The period is expected to last about a week. "Yu Xinle said, "In general, the current medical treatment load in Zhejiang is within the tolerable range. The next step will be to continue to work hard to smoothly pass the peak of the epidemic." When answering questions from reporters, Xu Xiaoyue, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, said that Zhejiang's key medical supplies manufacturers are operating at full capacity. At the same time, the provincial, municipal, and county levels have strengthened reserves around 15 key categories based on calculations by the health department to prepare for the coming peak of infection.
Cui Weiwu, member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission, introduced the recent epidemic prevention and control measures and medical security situation, saying that as of 15:00 on December 24, there were 1,637 cases in hospitals in Hangzhou, and their current conditions are relatively stable. Recently, the number of police calls and dispatches of Hangzhou 120 Emergency Center has continued to rise. Currently, the average number of calls per day is more than 3,000 times, and the average number of dispatches per day is more than 900 times, which is more than three times that of the same period last year. Currently, Jinhua City Level 2 or above medical institutions have opened 64 fever clinics, 190 primary medical institutions and 96 private medical institutions have opened fever clinics, with a total of 1,150 clinic rooms, exceeding the provincial target of 1,118.
"The number of patients admitted to fever clinics has increased from more than 4,000 on December 5 to more than 50,000 currently, reaching more than 60,000 at the peak," Cui Weiwu said.
Lu Jianxiang, deputy director of the Hangzhou Economic and Information Bureau, said that through various channels, municipal and district-level hospitals and drug distribution companies have recently purchased nearly 100,000 boxes of antipyretic drugs daily, and also coordinated the allocation of nearly 10 million antipyretic drugs. Next, Hangzhou will distribute some antipyretics, antigen detection reagents, etc. to community health service centers, giving full play to the role of Hangzhou’s home health service platform to better realize online on-demand applications and offline precise delivery of medicines.
In addition, the Hangzhou press conference also introduced relevant reminders for taking medicine at home and various requirements for positive infected people to release home isolation and return to work after recovery.
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