At about the same time that Xi'an announced the policy of lifting the lockdown management, Tianjin, with a population of 14 million, adjusted 3 more areas to high-risk areas.
As of 12:00 on January 11, Tianjin reported a total of 97 cases of positive new crown pneumonia virus infection, including 49 confirmed cases of local new crown pneumonia, 15 cases of asymptomatic infection of local new crown virus, and 33 other cases of initial positive infection to be notified after further verification by the clinical expert group.
This round of the epidemic is the first time that the Omiljung variant has spread in the local community in China, and 30% of the patients are asymptomatic. At present, most of the confirmed cases in Anyang, Henan Province, have basically been locked up by a college student who returned home from Tianjin.
In the face of the ferocious spread of Aomi Kerong, the first round of nucleic acid screening of all staff began at 7 o'clock on January 9 in Tianjin, a total of 11 912 280 people were sampled, 7 892 591 people have been found, and 77 cases have been positive. At the same time, the inspection of Beijing has also strengthened prevention and control, and most of the people who live in Tianjin and commute to Beijing to work have begun to work from home.
In the early hours of the morning, tearful young grocers, citizens queuing up in the cold wind to do nucleic acid testing, and commuters waiting for five or six hours to pass the checkpoint, these ordinary people around them are struggling to defeat the virus as soon as possible.
Yesterday, the Tianjin vegetable merchant "Xiao Fat", who was on the hot search, faced his mobile phone screen and said to everyone: They are tired, they are gritting their teeth and insisting, stand on every shift.
A vegetable vendor crying and cheering in the early hours of the morning
"In fact, no matter how hard and tired, I hope to understand, it is really not easy." The lady who just shipped the goods said, I want to kneel for you now. They are all tired, they are gritting their teeth and insisting, now it is not only a matter of money, it has nothing to do with money. Stand on every shift and come on!"
At about 1 a.m. on January 10, in the faint light of the market, a slightly chubby man burst into tears, crying in a Tianjin accent about his feelings since the epidemic, while cheering himself and everyone up. This short video of just a few tens of seconds was on the hot search, and many people liked and forwarded comments, "I also shed tears when I saw you cry." "Life is really not easy."
"I really didn't expect the hot search, I just felt it at the time." At 8 p.m. on January 10, "Xiao Fat", who was still setting up a stall at the Cheng Lin Dongli Vegetable Market in Tianjin's Dongli District, told him that many people who knew and did not know him sent him messages of encouragement and moved him.
The shop of "Little Fat" is called Liu Jia Vegetable Garden Vegetable Shop, which he and his wife run, although he is from Hebei, he grew up in Tianjin, so he also has a Tianjin accent. The couple had two children, one in the second grade of primary school and one in kindergarten.
"A few years ago, it was very difficult for us to have two children, starting from the stall selling vegetables, and then renting this stall, at the beginning I didn't understand the doorway to sell vegetables, I only sold two or three hundred yuan a day, and I cut out more than 100 rents, and there was not much left." In recent years, "Little Fat" and his wife have accumulated many old customers by relying on good popularity, many varieties of vegetables, and fresh dishes. But "Little Fat" said that selling vegetables is a very hard business, every day thunder can not move in the early morning to eat vegetables, the next day to guard the stall until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, often only sleep four or five hours a day.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, the wet market has become an important part of ensuring the supply of residents, and the market manager has called the merchants selling vegetables and meat one by one, asking them not to rest, to ensure that they can not rest, to ensure that the opening of the supply to residents. "Little Fat" goes to the wholesale market early in the morning every morning, worried that some dishes may disappear when they go late.
In the early morning of January 10, "Little Fat" went to the vegetable wholesale market to eat vegetables, and saw that the atmosphere in the wholesale market was a little tense, and the merchants competed for fresh dishes. "Little Fat" saw that the tired and confused female boss of the batch of dishes had an emotional breakdown, and said that he wanted to kneel down for everyone and let everyone not be in a hurry. Seeing such a scene, the emotions of "Little Fat" could not be contained, and he cried at that time, thinking that everyone was not easy, they were too tired, so they took a selfie video and posted it to their personal video account.
"Lapa Ba, our family slept in the car all night, I was frozen awake, my two children are so young, they suffered with me." In order to serve food, "Little Fat" and his wife cannot take care of the children, and sometimes have to take the children with them to the wholesale market.
Not only selling vegetables at stalls, "Xiao Fat" and his wife also sent vegetables to the door, many old customers around the WeChat order to buy vegetables, on the evening of January 9, "Xiao Fat" and his wife even ran to the community with side dishes, and the fifty or sixty households were sent to the community near midnight.
"Now all I can do is guarantee supply and demand, conscience price." Potatoes and Chinese cabbage are sold at the cost price today, thank you for the praise people have given me." Early in the morning of the 11th, "Xiao Fat" said that residents in the nearby community can go downstairs to buy vegetables after doing nucleic acid testing, hoping that the epidemic will soon pass.
Tianjin vegetable merchant "Little Fat" selfie shouting cheering video, in the video he burst into tears, many netizens were moved.
Video source: Respondents.
Most of the Commuters in Beijing and Tianjin work from home
Mr. Li, who lives in Tianjin's Wuqing District, told Occasional Cure that from January 9 to January 23, many high-speed rail tickets to Beijing could not be bought, and people who drove to Beijing to work needed to go to the neighborhood committee to report to prove that there was a reason, "My friend went to Beijing to be hospitalized because his daughter-in-law wanted to have a child, provided obstetric examination information, hospitalization certification materials, the neighborhood committee in Tianjin Wuqing District gave the certificate, and then when entering the Beijing checkpoint, the checkpoint should verify the situation with his unit in Beijing, and the unit should accept him. He was released into Beijing."
According to media reports, in addition to providing a 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate and brushing the ID card to check the itinerary trajectory, the epidemic prevention inspection in Beijing will also further screen the personnel involved in the Tianjin trajectory, and it is necessary to contact the community or work unit where they live in Beijing, and require health monitoring after returning to Beijing and sign a letter of commitment to epidemic prevention before entering Beijing.
Mr. Li is in four or five large groups, these groups are Beijing-Tianjin commuters, a total of more than 1300 people, in the past everyone in the group is to communicate carpooling, ticket purchase and traffic information, but now most of the commuters in the groups have reported that they have worked from home as required, "the group friends' respective work units and companies understand the epidemic prevention requirements, and the units and companies are not willing to take this responsibility, because if you come to work, you have to risk spreading the epidemic."
"The neighborhood committee suggested that it was not necessary to go out of Tianjin, and it would be very troublesome to enter Beijing." Wang Jun (pseudonym), a software engineer who lives in Tianjin's Wuqing district, told Occasional Cure that companies in Beijing simply say you don't use the company, but in fact his work can be basically completed through the Network. Wang Jun said that the high-speed rail ticket can not be bought, the itinerary code with stars, to Beijing is not to add chaos to the company? He also saw in the Beijing-Tianjin commuting group that a group of friends drove into Beijing and was persuaded to return.
Mr. Wang, a Beijing lawyer who has come to live in Wuqing to educate his children, also told Occasional Cure that during the epidemic, many courts have changed their case filing and court sessions through the Internet, and lawyers can not appear in court. For him, not being able to go to Beijing has little impact on his work.
The community where Wang Jun lives is doing nucleic acid testing, and he found that the organization is effective, "it is not a community that goes downstairs in line, but the volunteers notify them in order of units, and after completing one unit, they notify the people of another unit, so that they will go downstairs in order and will not be crowded."
Queue up for five hours to enter Beijing and pass through the checkpoint
Most of the people who live in Wuqing and work in Beijing are because of cheap house prices or children's education, and in the past, they could get to Beijing by high-speed rail in more than 20 minutes, and usually drove a little more than an hour.
However, Tianjin and Beijing are interdependent, and the first spread of the Omicron variant in the Tianjin community has also strengthened beijing's prevention and control efforts, and many people living in Tianjin and working in Beijing have been required to work from home, while some self-driving people enter Beijing have to queue for five or six hours through the checkpoint.
Langfang is located in the middle of Beijing and Wuqing, from Langfang to the Beijing-Taiwan Expressway checkpoint is only more than 20 kilometers, January 9 from Langfang self-driving back to Beijing Mr. Liu, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. to enter Beijing, just in front of the checkpoint, an hour only moved two meters. "To go through the checkpoint in Beijing, you can swipe your ID card and wait in line for at most 20 minutes." Mr. Liu said that less than half a tank of fuel before departure, and after more than five hours, the tank almost bottomed out. And his friend drove a Tesla to queue up at the checkpoint, waiting too long, and ran out of electricity.
In fact, according to the prevention and control measures of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevention and control of entering Beijing has been strengthened from January 9. Tianjin Jinnan District, Nankai District Zhuhuali personnel strictly restricted entry (return) to Beijing, since December 23, 2021 (inclusive) personnel passing through Tianjin City should immediately take the initiative to report to the community and units. Some people entering Beijing have been persuaded to return, and the Beijing-Tianjin intercity train will restrict ticket purchases. It is required that there is no need not to go to Tianjin, and Tianjin personnel do not come to Beijing unless necessary, and it is recommended that Beijing-Tianjin commuters work from home.
According to the regulations of Beijing Municipality, those included in Tianjin In the itinerary must be strictly screened, and contact with the unit or the community to sign a letter of commitment to epidemic prevention before entering Beijing, and many people and vehicles have been persuaded to return.
According to a number of media reports, according to the 12306 official customer service news, from 14:50 on January 9, the railway department suspended the sale of tickets for Tianjin South Railway Station, Binhai Station, Tianjin North Railway Station, Wuqing Station and other stations in Tianjin, and only some trains of Tianjin Railway Station and Tianjin West Railway Station can still purchase tickets.
On January 11, at the 165th press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic in Tianjin, Liu Daogang, deputy director of the Tianjin Municipal Transportation Commission, introduced that highways, railways and civil aviation all strictly check the 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate of personnel leaving Tianjin, the certificate of leaving Tianjin issued by the unit or town, and the green code of the health code. At present, the interprovincial lines and inter-provincial chartered buses into Beijing have all been suspended.
Omicron spreads in seclusion for at least 14 days
Many netizens said that the official announcement of Tianjin is also very grounded. On January 10, the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government issued a "Letter of Condolences to the Fathers and Fellow Villagers of the City", which began with "Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters of the City", and the title is very kind to read.
The letter of condolence said that the virus of the epidemic belongs to the Aomi Kerong variant, and the speed of transmission, concealment and penetration are different from the past. "In the middle of winter, it is cold and freezing." Completing the screening of the entire population of this 14 million megacity in the shortest possible time will not be easy. In the face of the menacing epidemic, we know that there must be many imperfect and unsatisfactory places in the work, and there are still many points that are not well considered, and we would like to express our sincere respect and gratitude to everyone for their understanding and tolerance."
"Today is the eighth festival of the lunar calendar, and after the eighth day of the lunar calendar, it is the year." We express our most sincere greetings to the fathers, fellow villagers, brothers and sisters in the city, and give everyone an early farewell!"
According to the news released by the Tianjin Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Command, the current round of epidemic in Tianjin is the largest number of local infection cases caused by Aomi Kerong in China so far.
As this letter of condolences said, the epidemic in Tianjin shows the characteristics of rapid transmission, strong concealment and strong penetration, on January 10, Zhang Ying, deputy director of the Tianjin Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that according to the previous intergenerational transmission time of the strain, it takes 15 to 21 days to spread three generations, indicating that the virus has been hidden and spread in Tianjin for a period of time.
At 24:00 on January 8, two new indigenous cases in Tianjin were confirmed as infection with the Aomi Kerong variant. From 7 o'clock the next day, Tianjin launched a nucleic acid test for all employees. On 10 January, Anyang City, Henan Province, confirmed that two previously detected cases were infections of the Aomi Kerong variant, which is in the same chain of transmission as the tianjin outbreak.
According to anyang Daily news on January 10, combined with epidemiological investigation and gene sequencing results, the source of infection of the epidemic in Anyang City was basically identified as a college student who returned to Tangyin County of Anyang City from Jinnan District of Tianjin City on December 28, 2021. This means that the time of Omicron's hidden spread in Tianjin has been advanced to December 28, 2021, and it has been 14 days since January 10.
Since South Africa first reported the Omiljun strain to WHO on 24 November 2021, the number of infections with this strain has increased dramatically, with more than 30 mutations, promptly making it a strain of concern (VOC). In early January, WHO said that before the Christmas and New Year holidays, 128 countries reported that they had detected the presence of the Aumecreon variant in their own countries.
The World Health Organization warns that the more contagious Aumecreon strain and the still widely spread Delta strain, if not contained, could lead to a global surge in COVID-19, such as a "tsunami", putting enormous pressure on national health systems.
On January 8, Mi Feng, spokesman for the National Health and Health Commission, said that it is necessary to continue to adhere to the general strategy of "external prevention of imports and internal prevention of rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic clearance", and ensure that due diligence should be inspected, isolated, and treated as soon as possible, and the social spread of the epidemic should be blocked as soon as possible.
Author: Li Hualiang
Producer: Li Chen
First image source: IC photo
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