From 0:00 to 24:00 on December 14, three new confirmed cases of local COVID-19 were added in Manzhouli City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is the lowest number of new confirmed cases since the outbreak of the epidemic in Manzhouli City. For many consecutive days, no confirmed cases have been found in the society of Manzhouli City. Experts believe that the current epidemic prevention and control situation in Manzhouli City is stabilizing and improving, and the risk of spillover from the spread of the epidemic has been effectively controlled.
On December 10, in the Baifang Complex in Manzhouli City, community volunteers registered resident information. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Zhipeng
For more than half a month, Wang Jing, secretary of the Party Committee of Xinyuan Community in Manzhouli City, got up at 4 o'clock every day to prepare for nucleic acid sampling. She distributed protective materials to the community workers, carefully checked the list of households, and connected the workflow with the medical staff who came to sample. At exactly 6:00 a.m., Wang Jing and community workers began to notify residents to go downstairs for nucleic acid sampling through WeChat groups and small speakers.
Nucleic acid sampling generally lasts six or seven hours, and community workers are constantly guiding people and entering information at the sampling point. In the afternoon, all residents in the jurisdiction complete the sampling, and the community staff must clean up the garbage at the sampling point until more than 4 p.m. to eat lunch. "This meal is often unstable, and this time in the afternoon is the time when the supplies are delivered to the bayonet, and we eat two bites of rice and have to distribute the supplies." Wang Jing said.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, the 414 communities and 176 bungalow areas in Manzhouli City were designated as "staying at home" and "staying at home" according to different risk levels, and community workers became the "gatekeepers", "distributors" and "information clerks" of residents.
"Although the community work is trivial, it constitutes the first line of defense for epidemic prevention and control." Wang Jing said that the 13 staff members in the community, including their mothers who are still breastfeeding, and old comrades who will retire in two months, each of them has taken the responsibility on their shoulders and fully protected the residents of the community.
On November 29, at the nucleic acid sampling point in Area A of Fuxin Community in Manzhouli City, the staff took nucleic acid sampling for residents. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Zhipeng
In order to find the infected person as soon as possible and block the transmission route, Manzhouli City has carried out 14 rounds of large-scale nucleic acid testing. In recent days, as the number of confirmed cases in society has been "cleared", the large-scale nucleic acid testing once a day has been changed to nucleic acid testing for key populations.
Xu Hongzhi, director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Health Commission, said that "finding people, managing people, and governing people well" are the three key points in the prevention and control of the epidemic. In addition to promoting nucleic acid testing, strengthening isolation management and social control, Manzhouli City is also making every effort to carry out medical treatment.
In order to alleviate the pressure of medical treatment in Manzhouli City and improve the level of treatment, some patients were transferred to hailar district people's hospital in Hailar District of Hulunbuir City and the Second People's Hospital of Hulunbuir City in Zalantun City for centralized treatment. As of the 15th, of the existing 488 confirmed patients, 227 were isolated in the Manzhouli Port Medical Treatment Hospital, 259 were isolated in the Hailar District People's Hospital, and 2 were isolated and treated in the Second People's Hospital of Hulunbuir City.
Xu Hongzhi said that medical treatment adheres to one person, one policy, classified treatment, realizes the advance of the critical disease management threshold, and also adopts the treatment method of integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and at the same time carries out psychological counseling. On December 10, the first five patients of the current round of the epidemic in Manzhouli City were cured and discharged from the hospital. As of 14:00 on December 15, a total of 54 people have been cured and discharged from hospital.
On December 10, the first batch of patients in manzhouli City were cured and discharged from the hospital. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Darihan
Cured and discharged patients will go to a designated rehabilitation hospital for rehabilitation treatment and health monitoring. Liu Hongtao, director of the Manzhouli Municipal Health Commission, said that the designated rehabilitation hospital will first evaluate the rehabilitation function of patients cured of new crown pneumonia and formulate individual rehabilitation treatment plans. If the cured patient has a dysfunction such as breathing difficulties, the medical staff will train them in breathing mode, respiratory rehabilitation exercises, psychological rehabilitation interventions, and daily living activity ability training. After the cured patients have undergone rehabilitation treatment, the new crown pneumonia recovery and discharge evaluation expert group will evaluate various health indicators, and all of them can be approved for discharge after meeting the standards.
Seeing fewer and fewer new cases and more and more cured patients, many citizens in Manchuria said that they "feel that the city is slowly waking up." Recently, recitation enthusiasts in Manzhouli City organized a number of online poetry readings to cheer for the "epidemic" in their hometown.
"Even if the cold wind is biting, it can't stop our steps." Just like the spring flowers of spring, even if the snow has just melted, it still has to bud and wait. Wang Lifeng, a volunteer for epidemic prevention and control in Manzhouli City, recited a small poem at the online poetry recital, which was written by her sister to the frontline staff of epidemic prevention and control. Wang Lifeng said: "We are advancing against the wind and snow, and I believe that spring will not be far away." (Reporters Wei Jingyu, Da Rihan, Li Zhipeng, Ye Ziyan)