Original title: Putian has 49 children under the age of 12 diagnosed in kindergarten children, primary school-generated infection key groups, Fujian schools at all levels and all types of schools have completed nucleic acid tests for all staff 19 days ago
Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, September 15th
Affected by this round of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, currently 49 children under the age of 12 have been diagnosed with new crown pneumonia in Putian, Fujian, and cases of children under the age of 12 have also appeared among the confirmed persons in Quanzhou, Xiamen and other places, causing widespread concern in the society. At present, various places in Fujian have stepped up efforts to prevent and control the epidemic in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, and refined daily prevention and control measures.
Experts suggest that the prevention and control of school epidemics should be strengthened from the aspects of intensifying random inspections, strengthening home-school linkages, and strengthening nucleic acid testing of key personnel, and speeding up the research and development and clinical trials of vaccination for children under 12 years old on the premise of ensuring safety and scientific rigor.
The confirmed child’s condition is stable
The reporter of “Xinhua Viewpoint” interviewed in Putian and other places and learned that compared with previous epidemics in other regions, kindergarten children and primary school students in Putian have become the key groups of infection.
Putian City notified that as of 24:00 on the 14th, there were 49 children under the age of 12 among the confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia. The children diagnosed this time are concentrated in many elementary schools and kindergartens in Fengting Town, Xianyou County, Putian.
“At present, the transmission chain of this epidemic is relatively clear.” Putian City Deputy Mayor Hu Guofang said that on August 4, Lin Moujie, the suspected source case, entered the country from Xiamen Airport on a flight from Singapore and was quarantined in Xiamen 14 Today, it was transferred point-to-point to Xianyou on August 19 and continued to be quarantined for 7 days, and then home health monitoring was carried out. Lin Moujie’s two sons were both studying in Putou Primary School.
On September 10, when Putou Elementary School conducted a 10% nucleic acid sampling test on students, it was found that 2 students were positive, and Lin Mojie was found to be the suspected source. The local area immediately initiated prevention and control measures and quarantined nearly 600 students and teachers.
According to Putian, 49 children under the age of 12 who were diagnosed were in stable condition without severe or critical cases; the patients were admitted to the pulmonary hospital under the Affiliated Hospital of Putian College, a designated hospital. “One case, one case” for treatment.
At present, Fengting Town has carried out four rounds of nucleic acid tests for all employees, and Xianyou County and Quangang District of Quanzhou are carrying out the second round of nucleic acid tests for all employees. “It is preliminarily determined that the epidemic was caused by the delta strain, and it has been transmitted for four generations when it was discovered. After school starts on September 3, there may be cases in which some infected students are still in the incubation period of the virus. It is not ruled out that there will be more diagnoses in the future. The case was detected.” Several local cadres told reporters.
When the reporter interviewed in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Putian and other places, many parents of students and school leaders said that the health of their children is the most worrying. “This epidemic is a wake-up call. Schools, families, communities, etc. must adopt more stringent prevention and control measures.”
Campus management faces new challenges
Wu Haiduan, the county magistrate of Xianyou County, told reporters that Lin Moujie has implemented the “14+7” centralized quarantine regulations. Few students are infected, which brings new challenges to the prevention and control of the epidemic situation at the grassroots level, especially in schools and other special places.
Zhang Jun, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Disease Diagnostic Reagents and Vaccine Engineering Technology Research Center and deputy dean of the School of Public Health of Xiamen University, said that the number of children infected with the new crown epidemic has increased recently at home and abroad. More than 20% of the new cases, the proportion of children who did not suffer from other diseases before infection increased. In addition, in the Jiangsu-associated epidemic caused by the delta variant, 20% of the local cases infected in Jingmen, Hubei were also children.
Zhang Jun said that children have always been susceptible to the new crown virus. Although it is not clear whether the delta strain will cause more serious diseases in children, it has indeed led to an increasing number of child patients from a global perspective.
The reporter visited and found that there are still loopholes in the prevention and control of the epidemic in campus management, home-school linkage, education and training institutions, and some kindergartens, primary and secondary schools have insufficient implementation of detailed prevention and control measures.
The reporter also found in the interview that since the outbreak, many schools have asked parents of students to report whether they have traveled to high-risk areas. Teachers interviewed urged that most of the trip record reports can only be done voluntarily by parents. Parents who have been to high-risk areas must not conceal their actual whereabouts because they do not want to stay in isolation at home.
How to Weave a School Epidemic Prevention and Control Network
In response to the impact of the Putian epidemic on schools, Fujian requires schools at all levels to organize key personnel mapping work. Since August 26, teachers, students and employees from current medium- and high-risk areas, among themselves or co-residents, conduct a comprehensive review and separate Create a booklet and implement dynamic tracking management; require uninterrupted and timely update of health information reports of teachers and students, and strictly implement the “daily report” system.
In addition, the Fujian Provincial Department of Education recently issued a notice requiring all schools at all levels and types in the province to complete nucleic acid tests for all employees before September 19. The key populations included in the register and teachers, students and staff in Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and other places will undergo a nucleic acid test again after an interval of 4 days. Schools with conditions can encrypt the test. Putian, Quanzhou Quangang District and other places also proposed that all schools in their jurisdiction should suspend offline teaching and switch to online teaching.
Ling Longmei, director of the Putian Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the exposure of children under the age of 12 in this epidemic is a weak point in the current epidemic prevention and control. Children’s immunity is not as good as that of adults. Schools are densely staffed. Once an epidemic occurs, more cases are likely to form in a short period of time. In addition, the course of children’s disease develops quickly and treatment is more complicated. Therefore, it is necessary to achieve a breakthrough in the vaccination process to more effectively prevent and control the spread of the epidemic in this group.
Increasing the proportion of timely sampling of students is a key measure for timely and accurate screening. The reporter learned that the current round of nucleic acid testing in all schools in Fujian Province has been normalized, including 10% random testing, regular and irregular testing, etc. After the outbreak, all teachers and students were tested across the province.
The Ministry of Education issued a notice on the 14th to deploy the current education system to prevent and control the epidemic. The notice requires that education departments and schools in various places should make epidemic prevention and control a top priority, resolutely prevent relaxation and paralysis, find and block shortcomings in school epidemic prevention and control, strengthen supervision and inspection, and resolutely build campus epidemic safety defenses. Efforts should be made to strengthen the monitoring of key personnel, implement coordinated epidemic prevention measures between home and school, refine the health monitoring of teachers, students and their co-residents, and strive to prevent the spread of the new crown virus from families and society to schools. It is necessary to effectively strengthen the prevention and control of the epidemic situation during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday, strengthen the duty on duty during the holiday, and clarify the epidemic prevention and control requirements for leaving school and returning to school.
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