As of 10:00 a.m. on January 8, there were 188 locally confirmed cases in Henan Province, and many places in Xuchang City and Yuzhou City in Henan Province were upgraded to high-risk areas, and this round of epidemic has involved Xuchang, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Zhoukou and other places.
"We need to go door-to-door to give residents nucleic acid testing, be ready to receive patients, and manage the stranded population." Shen Bing (pseudonym), a doctor at Yuzhou People's Hospital, said in an interview with a Health Times reporter that they drove a "car fever clinic" to test the citizens one by one.
Medical staff come to the door to do nucleic acid testing for the bedridden elderly. The image comes from Jimu News.
Since December 31, 2021, 10 positive cases of COVID-19 have been found in Xin'an County, Luoyang City. Luoyang City urgently organized more than 3,500 medical personnel to carry out nucleic acid testing at 342 nucleic acid sampling points in Xin'an County overnight; bus drivers in Xin'an County formed an emergency rescue team to bravely become the "strongest substitute" in the fight against the epidemic; more than 200 retired soldiers wore red vests to deliver love meals and deliver supplies for epidemic prevention personnel; and the owner of the soup restaurant rushed to make 200 bowls of mutton soup, just to let the medical staff eat a hot meal.
"At 9 p.m. on January 2, we received a notice to enter the house to conduct nucleic acid testing in the whole town." Wang Ying (pseudonym), a staff member of the Liangbei Town Health Center in Yuzhou City, Henan Province, told the Health Times reporter that since the outbreak of the epidemic on January 2, the 42 people in the hospital have worked more than 17 hours, and each person needs to complete the nucleic acid test of about 500 people per day.
Overnight home for nucleic acid testing. Courtesy of respondents
There is no fixed sleep time, against the drizzle, Wang Ying and other staff members step on the mud 4 or 5 times a day to the village for nucleic acid testing, and the number of people tested at a time may be more than a dozen people, or dozens of people. The villages are unevenly distributed, some are positive and some are negative. For Wang Ying, the first outbreak of the epidemic was around her. Less than ten minutes after the interview, Wang Ying told reporters that the next round of nucleic acid testing was to be launched, and the time of this nucleic acid test lasted until nine o'clock at night.
CdC issued reminders in many places. According to the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou is a transportation hub, with a large flow of people and a high risk of importation into Sichuan Province. Sichuan Disease Control emergency reminder, since December 22, 2021, there is a history of residence in The Guancheng District, Erqi District and Zhongyuan District of Zhengzhou City, and for those who have lived in all counties (cities, districts) of Zhengzhou City since December 30, 2021, strictly implement home or centralized isolation until they leave Zhengzhou City for 14 days, complete a nasopharyngeal swab nucleic acid test every 3 days during the isolation period, and adopt "double collection and double examination" on the 14th day.