The Spring Festival is approaching, don't let the epidemic take advantage of the loophole of family gathering| the Beijing News editorial

In the past few days, the epidemic in Shaanxi, Henan, Tianjin and other places has touched people's hearts, and at the same time, the Aomi Kerong mutation has brought new challenges to epidemic prevention in various places. As of 14 January, 12 cases of Aumechjong have been detected in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tianjin, Anyang, Liaoning, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Shenzhen, Jiangsu, Changsha, Hunan and Zhejiang.

Among them, there have been family clusters in many places. According to the Beijing Daily, on January 14, Shenzhen and Zhuhai respectively reported that a family of 6 people and a family of 4 were infected, and Tianjin was more. As of 24:00 on January 13, there have been 45 family clusters in Tianjin, with 2 to 5 cases per household. Some experts said that in this round of epidemics, how to prevent family cluster epidemics has become a top priority.

At present, the Spring Festival is approaching, but a new round of the epidemic is threatening, and major epidemic variants such as Delta and Omicron continue to increase the threat to public safety with stronger transmission. As Dr. Zhang Wenhong said, "The struggle between human beings and Omi kerong is still in its most difficult moment." At this time, the urgency of strictly preventing family clusters of epidemics has become more and more prominent.

It should be noted that clustered epidemics have always been the focus and difficulty of epidemic prevention and control, and families are the high-frequency occurrence sites of clustered epidemics. First it is an extraterritorial import, and then it spreads with the family as the main transmission network, which is a common transmission path for epidemics in many places. In this round of the epidemic, the family cluster epidemic has also shown a trend of multiple outbreaks.

In this context, strict social control measures have been adopted in many places, and while strengthening screening, community control, centralized isolation and other aspects of the implementation of the "strict" word, the family must also have the consciousness of the main body of epidemic prevention, the strengthening of prevention, the protection must not be ambiguous, and the epidemic prevention and control must not be lost in the "family" defense line. Especially during the Spring Festival, the time of reunion of thousands of families, the peak period of visiting relatives and friends.

In the first two years, before the Spring Festival, many places would issue documents, requiring fewer banquets and fewer banquets, controlling family gatherings, and not gathering together or gathering. This inevitably requires each family to make appropriate concessions in the creation of a "family-friendly" atmosphere, and to run epidemic prevention through the rhythm of the festival. Nowadays, as the new virus and imported epidemic will lengthen the epidemic prevention time and front, some people are prone to burnout and paralysis, and the advocacy and requirements of strict epidemic prevention will also appear "marginal utility decreasing".

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Strict epidemic prevention is not to prevent family members from gathering together for the festival, but to focus on the need to strictly prevent family clusters of epidemics, and put forward requirements for personal protection within families and reduce disorderly gatherings. During the Spring Festival, family gatherings are often accompanied by cross-regional long-distance movements such as returning home and leaving home, which means some potential risks, if family gatherings and family get along do not "load" those epidemic prevention awareness and safety habits into it, it is easy to spread the epidemic in the family range.

Among them, those families with home medical isolation, especially need to check the epidemic prevention requirements, live alone, use special tableware, minimize the common activity area, and report suspicious symptoms immediately, etc., are all necessary measures; if an individual has fever symptoms, he must also go to the nearest fever clinic for diagnosis, and do not delay his health because the treatment is not delayed in time, and the infection is transmitted to family and relatives and friends.

Even if these situations do not exist, it is necessary to maintain daily hygiene habits such as wearing masks, washing hands frequently, ventilating more, gathering less, "one meter line", and using public chopsticks. Although these are clichés, we can't feel tired and not "listen" because of "often talking", and Matsushita should have banded the strings.

It is worth saying that whether it is to explicitly visit relatives and friends less, or to advocate family meal sharing, people are required to go against many "intimate" habits. However, under the epidemic situation, some of the habits of "more than enough closeness and insufficient hygiene" in the way family get along with the epidemic prevention requirements are also responsible for the health and safety of the family.

As far as various places are concerned, it is also necessary to sort out and summarize the typical cases of family cluster epidemics that have emerged so far, and then strengthen the popularization of family epidemic prevention with reference to the "case interpretation method", and make full reminders of the consequences of "isolation and non-isolation" and disorderly gathering.

In the final analysis, the family, as the smallest unit of epidemic prevention and control, cannot become a weak link in epidemic prevention. Under the complex situation of frequent flow of people in the Spring Festival and the arrival of the Omicron and the easy spread of the virus in winter and spring, in order to strengthen the prevention and response to this major examination that focuses on preventing the epidemic of family clusters, there will not be too much mistakes and paralysis. Only by building a solid family defense line together can the end of the epidemic prevention and control be rammed more solidly, and only then can there be a final victory in the "war against the epidemic".

Edit | Li Xiaoxiao

Proofreading | Zhao Lin