The epidemic is back again. The focus of this round of epidemic is Si County, Suzhou, Anhui Province. In three days, this small county with a population of just over 700,000 had more than 800 infections, and the epidemic quickly spread to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Positive infections were found in 12 cities in three provinces of the Yangtze River Delta. Since April 26, Anhui has had no new locally confirmed cases for two consecutive months. On June 26, 3 new positive cases were reported in Si County, breaking the two-month calm. In the following week, the epidemic data in Si County increased rapidly. As of 16:00 on July 4, a total of 863 positive cases were reported in Si County, which attracted national attention.
Si County has reported 863 positive cases in this round.
On the afternoon of July 4, Suzhou held a press conference. As of 16:00 on the 4th, Si County had reported a total of 863 positive cases in this round of the epidemic, and a total of 6 rounds of regional full-scale nucleic acid tests had been carried out. , 3,045,749 people participated in the testing. Judging from the first six rounds of regional nucleic acid tests, the number of positive cases in Si County's community has shown a downward trend, with 68, 145, 105, 45, 20 and 14 cases respectively. The remaining positive cases were found in centralized isolation points.
The current epidemic in Si County began on June 26. On the evening of June 26, Si County issued a WeChat public account and posted, “On June 26, 2022, our county found an asymptomatic infected person in the nucleic acid test of key populations. Subsequently, the infected person was tested. In the nucleic acid testing of close contacts, two more cases were found to be positive in the preliminary nucleic acid screening." In the following week, the epidemic data in Si County increased rapidly.
html On June 29, the Si County New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Headquarters issued a lockdown management notice. From the issuance of the notice, all residential areas, villages (communities) in the county will be subject to lockdown management, in accordance with the principle of "not missing a single person." Based on the principle of "no one is missed", nucleic acid screening will be implemented for all personnel. During the lockdown period, all personnel are required to stay at home. On July 3, the Si County New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Headquarters issued a notice adding 13 new high-risk areas throughout the county.The epidemic broke out and the whole county was under lockdown. How to ensure the supply of supplies?
On the evening of July 3, Suzhou held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Si County. In order to fully ensure the supply of living materials, Si County established an "8+15+N" supply guarantee system, specifying eight large supermarkets as all During the county epidemic prevention and control period, enterprises mainly supply daily necessities. 15 larger supermarkets near densely populated communities serve as the second echelon, and N small fresh food supermarkets in communities serve as supplements. At present, 8 large supermarkets and 15 larger supermarkets have all started supply guarantee mode, and 41 small fresh food supermarkets have been activated, basically forming a supply guarantee network covering urban and rural areas.
Ms. Zhang, who lives in Hefei, told the Beijing Business Daily reporter, "This round of the Si County epidemic started with almost no warning. However, because Anhui has experienced sudden epidemics in the early stage, communities, units, and hospitals all have nucleic acid testing points. Hefei People in the city will continue to take nucleic acid tests and go to work as usual, which will not have much impact on their work and life."
According to the latest data released by the Anhui Provincial Health Commission on the morning of July 4, from June 26 to 24:00 on July 3, Anhui Province reported a total of 134 confirmed cases, including 1 imported case from abroad and 132 cases in Si County, Suzhou City. cases, Lingbi County 1 cases; a total of 724 asymptomatic infections were reported. As of 24:00 on July 3, there were 858 cases of infection in Anhui in this round of epidemic.
The epidemic is at a critical stage
"The epidemic prevention and control work in Si County is at a critical stage." Anhui Provincial Party Committee Secretary Zheng Shanjie emphasized when supervising and investigating the epidemic prevention and control work in Si County on the evening of July 3, "We must adhere to the 'foreign import prevention' , the general strategy of internal prevention and rebound and the general policy of "dynamic clearing", improve the accuracy and scientificity of epidemic prevention, and use the strength of the province to win the battle of epidemic prevention and control in Si County. "
At present, the Anhui Health Commission has not yet. Announce the source of the current epidemic in Si County. Experts from the Anhui Provincial New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters said in an interview with The entire county is under static management and personnel do not leave their homes.
With the coordination of the Anhui Provincial Epidemic Prevention Office, Bozhou , Chuzhou and other places have supported Suzhou city nucleic acid testing shelters and testing vehicles, with a testing capacity of 171,000 single tubes per day. From June 26 to July 2, a total of 2.6397 million samples were collected.
Anhui Province has organized 33,791 isolation rooms, including 5,987 inside the city and 27,804 outside the city.Each centralized isolation point is assigned a special work class to be responsible for daily life services, health monitoring, psychological counseling, etc. for the people in the isolation point. A total of 22,320 isolation rooms have been activated, and 11,471 backup isolation rooms remain. A total of 22,692 quarantined close contacts, sub-close contacts and key groups have been transferred.
According to Anhui Daily client report on July 3, since the epidemic broke out in Si County, Suzhou City on June 26, Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have attached great importance to it. Zheng Shanjie, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, has given many instructions and command arrangements. , Governor Wang Qingxian and Executive Vice Governor Liu Hui conducted on-site command and disposal, and Deputy Director of the National Health Commission Lei Haichao provided on-site supervision and guidance.
Many places have reported epidemics related to Si County.
Suzhou City, Anhui Province, where Si County is located, is located in the northernmost part of Anhui, at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces. Since the first report of the Si County epidemic in this round, Nanjing, Xuzhou, Wuxi , Jiangsu Province, have all clearly reported the occurrence of Si County-related epidemics.
html On June 28, Nanjing reported that four positive cases had been detected, all of which were family members of the nucleic acid-positive persons in Si County. htmlOn June 29th and 30th, Wuxi City had 9 new cases and 24 new cases of local infection respectively, both of which were related to 2 people from Si County who came to Wuxi. The genetic sequencing results of the first two infected people showed that they were highly homologous with the genome sequences of the current epidemic cases in Si County. As of 1:00 a.m. on July 3, a total of 103 positive infections have been found in Wuxi in this round of epidemic. Previously, Wuxi had called on all residents not to leave Wuxi unless necessary. Since June 27, local COVID-19 infections have been found in Yancheng, Suzhou, Huai'an, Jiangsu, Hangzhou, and Jinhua, Zhejiang.The person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Comprehensive Command Office said that from the current point of view, this round of epidemic is generally controllable. After the epidemic was discovered and brought under control on June 26, an investigation letter was immediately issued to risk personnel such as close contacts and sub-close contacts from other places.
At present, all parts of Anhui Province have implemented joint prevention and control, and 9,136 people with a history of living in Si County since June 10 have been urgently investigated, including sporadic cases in Hefei, Suixi , Guzhen , Lingbi and other places. Related infections and their close and sub-close contacts have been effectively controlled, and multiple rounds of nucleic acid tests for other relevant personnel and areas have been negative. The relevant person in charge judged based on this that the risk of spillover and proliferation was basically eliminated.
Mr. He, a staff member of a township government in Hefei, told a reporter from the Beijing Business Daily, "After the current outbreak in Si County, Hefei also started three rounds of large-scale nucleic acid testing, and the testing time has changed from the previous seven-day test to three days. One inspection."
Beijing Business Daily reporter Tao Feng Intern reporter Lu Shanshan
