People’s Daily Online, Suzhou, February 24 (Reporter Wang Jiliang) At the 11th Suzhou Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference held on the afternoon of the 24th, in response to the “key population” category repeatedly mentioned in the recent information release, Zhang Jun, deputy director and chief physician of the Suzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, explained that the key population in Suzhou includes 20 categories of people including fever clinics in medical institutions and staff in isolation wards.
Zhang Jun introduced that the Comprehensive Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic of the State Council made it clear in the “Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Promotion of New Coronary Virus Nucleic Acid Testing” that localities can, according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control and their testing capabilities, Determine and dynamically adjust the detection strategy and population range, and implement the “exhaustive examination” of key groups and the “exhaustive examination” of other groups.
According to the relevant documents of Jiangsu Province and Suzhou City on epidemic prevention and control, at present, the key populations in Suzhou City are:
1. There are high risks in fever clinics and isolation wards of medical institutions exposed staff. 2. Fever outpatients; outpatient and emergency surgery patients; patients undergoing risky procedures such as endoscopy; patients with symptoms related to new coronary pneumonia among general outpatients; persons with fever or respiratory symptoms among hospitalized patients; newly hospitalized patients and their escort staff. 3. International transportation related practitioners (including cleaning and ground staff). 4. Personnel who are engaged in port production, ship piloting, ship agency, cargo tally, material supply, ship repair and construction, pollutant reception, etc. boarding ships on international voyages. 5. Front-line staff of immigration, customs and market supervision systems. 6. Persons who have contact with imported cold chain food and other imported goods in the process of transportation, circulation and sales. 7. Direct contact with the drivers, loading and unloading, killing and other personnel of international mail and express; other employees in the postal express industry and takeaway-related staff. 8. Staff engaged in circulation, disinfection, specimen collection and testing in the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic. 9. Centrally isolate the staff of the medical observation site. 10. Inbound passengers connect and transfer (including “fast lane”) staff. 11. Medical waste transportation and processing personnel. 12. Staff of public security prisons; staff of judicial prisons outside the supervision area. 13. Staff of civil affairs service institutions such as elderly care institutions, child welfare institutions, minor rescue and protection institutions, mental health welfare institutions, treatment and management institutions for vagrants and beggars, and funeral service institutions. 14. Staff involved in community epidemic prevention and control. 15. Relevant staff of Class A scenic spots and museums, urban management personnel (including sanitation personnel, etc.), retail pharmacies and farmers (markets) market practitioners. 16. People coming to Suzhou from domestic medium and high risk areas. 17. Overseas entry personnel. 18. Close contacts and close contacts. 19. Persons coming to Suzhou from low-risk areas in cities divided into districts (municipalities directly under the Central Government are districts) where medium- and high-risk areas are located. 20. Other groups of people who need to be tested according to risk studies.