(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Jiangsu Anti-epidemic: Newly confirmed cases in Nanjing fell to single digits in a single day, Yangzhou, the epidemic situation is severe
China News Service, Nanjing, August 6 (Reporter Zhu Xiaoying, Cui Jiaming, Ge Yong) As of the 6th, the number of newly diagnosed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Nanjing on a single day in Jiangsu Province has continued to decline and has remained in single digits for 4 consecutive days. Excluding those discharged from the hospital, there are currently 215 confirmed cases in Nanjing, and no severe or critical cases have occurred. However, the epidemic situation in Yangzhou is still severe. The newly confirmed local cases are at a recent peak. The cumulative number of reported local confirmed cases is close to Nanjing, with 14 severe cases and 2 critical cases among the patients.
On the 6th, Nanjing City and Yangzhou City respectively held press conferences on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. According to reports, from July 20 to date, Nanjing City has reported a total of 228 local confirmed cases (including 13 discharged), and Yangzhou City has reported a total of 220 local confirmed cases. From 0:00 to 24:00 on the 5th, among the 61 newly confirmed local cases in Jiangsu, 1 was in Nanjing, 58 in Yangzhou, and 2 in Huai’an.
Nanjing, a megacity in the Yangtze River Delta with a permanent population of more than 9 million, has completed the fourth round of nucleic acid testing for all employees and is currently conducting the fifth round of nucleic acid testing in some areas.
From the perspective of epidemic prevention and control dynamics, recently, Nanjing has continued to have confirmed patients who have reached the discharge standards and transferred to the rehabilitation treatment stage; some areas have been adjusted from medium-risk areas to low-risk areas; the first closed village has been unblocked, but the requirements are “unblocked.” Defend”.
The patient’s treatment situation is of concern to the outside world. A reporter from China News Agency recently saw at the Nanjing Public Health Medical Center, which treats confirmed patients in many places in Jiangsu, that the rescue work here is racing against time, and medical staff are constantly shuttling through the building. At noon on the 5th, the first batch of 6 patients from the new crown pneumonia epidemic at Nanjing Lukou International Airport were discharged from the hospital. Each person carried a medical bag containing a disinfectant gel and N95 mask, boarded the transfer vehicle according to the established route under the guidance, and went to the Lishui District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Nanjing City for the next stage of rehabilitation treatment.
Yang Dasuo, deputy director of the Nanjing Municipal Health Commission, said on the 6th that all patients were still in stable condition, and another 7 confirmed patients reached discharge standards that day.
Following the Nanjing airport, the chess and card room in Yangzhou has become another spreading point of the epidemic. In the past few days, the main urban area of Yangzhou has pressed the “pause button” to curb the spread of the epidemic.
A reporter from China News Agency saw on the streets of Yangzhou that the bustling commercial streets in the past looked deserted. Merchants closed their doors behind closed doors, there were sparse vehicles on the road, and people wore masks in a hurry. On Wenchang Middle Road in the downtown area, sporadic restaurants only provide takeaway services. Anti-epidemic volunteers, environmental sanitation and cleaning staff, etc. stick to the front line and conduct orderly guidance and environmental elimination.
Local three-dimensional transportation is in a state of “stopped”: passenger services at Yangzhou Station and Yangzhou East Station will be suspended, passenger flights taking off and landing at Yangzhou Taizhou International Airport will be suspended, related waterway transportation activities will be suspended, and 24 expressway toll stations will be temporarily closed.
Wang Jinsong, deputy director of the Yangzhou Municipal Health Commission, announced on the 6th that the city has urgently identified 7,037 close contacts and sub-close contacts, all of whom have been isolated and controlled; currently there are 1 high-risk areas and 66 medium-risk areas.
Yangzhou, with a permanent population of more than 4 million and a population of more than 1.7 million in the main urban area, is carrying out the third round of large-scale nucleic acid testing in the main urban area. As of 7:00 on the 6th, 1.5197 million people have been sampled, and 1,263,700 people have been tested. All results are yet to be detected. Nucleic acid testing laboratories are newly built, scenic spots are closed, traffic control, and residents’ living supplies are guaranteed to fight the “epidemic” work also continues. (Finish)