The author of this article: Tun Tun
According to the CDC of Guang’an City, Sichuan Province, on May 17, Guang’an City added 48 confirmed cases and 148 asymptomatic infections, except for 1 asymptomatic infection in Guang’an. Outside the district, the rest are in Linshui County.
Since the first case of asymptomatic infection appeared on May 9, as of May 17, Linshui County had a total of 776 new cases of positive infection, and three places were upgraded for the medium risk area.
With more than 700 new cases on the 9th, this county at the junction of Sichuan and Chongqing fell into a sudden epidemic.
Sichuan Province has 3 medium-risk areas, all in Linshui County
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The traceability is still unclear, and the epidemic has spilled over
Guang’an Linshui County is located at the junction of Sichuan and Chongqing. It is the closest county to the main urban area of Chongqing in Sichuan Province.
This round of the epidemic began on May 9. According to a notification issued by Guang’an, 3 new cases of local asymptomatic infection were reported in Linshui County. Among them, asymptomatic infected person No. 1 is a returnee from outside the province, and asymptomatic infected persons 2 and 3 are their close contacts. The source of the virus shows that the virus strain in this round is Omicron BA.2.2.
According to the circulation trajectory announced by Guang’an City, before being quarantined and controlled, the asymptomatic infected person No. 1 entered and exited the Linshui Expressway every day, and the asymptomatic infected person No. 2 took public transportation for many times and contacted People are complicated. However, according to the notification information, the first three confirmed cases of infection have no history of living in the epidemic area, and the source of the epidemic is still unclear.
Guang’an City urgently issued 186 letters of assistance to both inside and outside the province, and assigned emergency yellow codes to nearly 120,000 people who had a history of living in Guang’an in the past 14 days and who roamed to other cities and prefectures. 11,000 people with recent travel history in Linshui County have implemented health monitoring and home isolation control.
On the same day, Chongqing issued a letter of assistance, stating that an online car-hailing driver outside the city was diagnosed with asymptomatic infection of the new coronavirus and was in Chongqing from May 2 to 8. There is a history of activities in Yubei District of the city.
According to the flow survey information released by Chongqing, the itinerary of the online car-hailing driver is quite similar to that of the asymptomatic infected person No. 1 in Linshui County. The driver traveled between Linshui and Chongqing via the G65 expressway every day, and passed through crowded places such as Chongqing South Railway Station and Jiangbei Airport, with many close contacts.
Part of the trajectories released by Guang’an and Chongqing
Chongqing added 1 new case of asymptomatic infection on May 10, who is a close contact of the car-hailing driver. As of May 14, according to the information released by Chongqing, a total of 3 new positive patients have been clearly related to the epidemic in Linshui County, all of which are closely related to the car-hailing drivers.
Chongqing has adjusted its epidemic prevention policy and implemented a 7-day centralized quarantine for those who have lived in Linshui County since May 2.
In order to effectively control the spread of the epidemic, Linshui County has entered the global static management since May 10. On May 13th, Guang’an City opened a makeshift hospital with a capacity of 1,040 beds. As of 15:00 on the 14th, 150 asymptomatic infected persons had been intensively treated.
It is worth mentioning that the makeshift hospital opened in Guang’an this time was not a temporary reconstruction, but was completed in advance. According to the concept of “preparing rather than using, not being available without preparation”, Guang’an City started the construction of the shelter as early as March 30, and the main body was completed on April 18.
From May 16 to 18, Linshui County carried out nucleic acid testing for all employees for three consecutive days. A total of 681 points and 2,159 sampling stations were set up to carry out carpet registration. At the same time, Sichuan Province’s first air-film detection chamber for nucleic acid detection equipment was built and put into use in Linshui, which can detect up to nearly 700,000 people per day.
On the evening of the 18th, affected by the spillover of the neighboring water epidemic, Guang’an City will implement the city’s traffic control from 0:00 today. The city’s party and government organs, enterprises and institutions will implement home office and closed-loop management. The main urban area and counties and cities except Linshui will also carry out comprehensive nucleic acid screening today.
The populous county that has just been lifted out of poverty is in urgent need of supplies
Faced with an unexpected outbreak of the epidemic, this small town that had just been lifted out of poverty had no choice but to ask for help.
On May 14, the Linshui County Emergency Response Headquarters issued a notice asking people from all walks of life to lend a helping hand. The staff of the local Red Cross told the media that medical protective materials and disinfection materials, such as masks, protective clothing, disinfectants, etc., are mainly needed at present.
Linshui County seeks help from all walks of life
Linshui County is a county with a large population. There are 25 towns and 335 villages within its jurisdiction, with a total population of 1.01 million. It is one of the 20 counties with a population of one million in Sichuan Province. In 2018, Linshui County just got rid of the poverty-stricken county, and in 2019, the whole region was lifted out of poverty. The per capita annual income rose from 2,457 yuan in 2013 to 11,886 yuan in 2021.
Linshui County Permanent Resident Population and Urbanization Rate (7th National Population Census Registration Data)
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Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Linshui County has set up the S40 Guangsui Expressway Pengnan Service Area and the G85 Yinkun Expressway Shuanghuai Service Area as connection points for “zero-contact” reception. Material assistance. After the truck with anti-epidemic materials has been fully disinfected at the connection point, it will be handed over to the driver dispatched by Guang’an, who will drive to the designated area in the connection point to unload and load the goods, so as to avoid the dilemma that drivers from other places will be quarantined after returning the goods. .
From the afternoon of the 14th to the 16th, Linshui received medical supplies and living supplies from Chengdu, Mianyang, Xichang and other places successively. The two connection points connected a total of 70 The remaining batches include virus collection equipment, nucleic acid extraction reagents, medical surgical masks, protective clothing and other important epidemic prevention materials, as well as food, vegetables and other living materials.
According to reports, Guang’an City reserves materials for 7 days at full capacity. As of 7:00 on May 17, Guang’an City had stockpiled 5,052,600 ordinary masks, 543,200 medical protective masks, 3,823,100 surgical masks, and 426,200 sets of protective clothing. Among them, Linshui County, which is the key area of the epidemic, has a total of 4,039,400 antigen test kits, 65,200 medical protective masks, 105,200 surgical masks, 24,100 sets of protective clothing, and 23,300 sets of surgical gowns.
On the other hand, when there is a shortage of materials, there is also a shortage of people.
According to the data of the Sichuan Bureau of Statistics, Guang’an City has a total of 25,622 health personnel in 2020, which is at the middle and lower level among the cities (prefectures) in Sichuan Province. On May 17, Linshui issued a document calling on the county’s militiamen and veterans to invest in epidemic prevention and control.
After the outbreak, on May 12, Guang’an City mobilized a total of 2,079 medical staff from across the city to support the nucleic acid testing of Linshui. As of May 16, Guang’an City dispatched more than 6,000 medical personnel from 5 districts, counties and related medical institutions directly under the city to help Linshui at night to assist in nucleic acid sampling.
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