Guangdong yesterday confirmed 7 new cases of asymptomatic infection 1 case of Guangdong epidemic situation on January 19, Meizhou Wuhua Three Towns, Zhongshan and other places all nucleic acid tests are negative

Guangdong added a new local infection "7+1" yesterday, involving Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Guangzhou

　　At 0-24:00 on January 18, there were 7 new locally confirmed cases in Guangdong Province, 1 case reported in Shenzhen and 6 cases in Zhuhai. One new case of local asymptomatic infection was reported in Guangzhou.

　　There were 2 new imported confirmed cases in the province, 1 case was reported in Guangzhou from the United States, and 1 case was reported in Foshan from Saudi Arabia. There were 4 new cases of asymptomatic infection imported from abroad, 3 cases were reported in Guangzhou, from the United States, Australia and Sudan, and 1 case was reported from Shenzhen from Singapore. Thirteen new cases have been discharged from the hospital, and 231 cases are currently in hospital.

　　As of 24:00 on January 18, the province has reported a total of 7,044 cases of positive COVID-19 infection (5,025 cases imported from abroad), of which 3,684 cases are confirmed cases (2,045 cases imported from abroad) and 3,360 cases of asymptomatic infection (2,980 cases imported from abroad). ("Healthy Guangdong" WeChat public account)

The second round of nucleic acid test results of the three towns in Wuhua County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, were negative

On January 19, the reporter learned from the Meizhou City New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters that the second round of nucleic acid testing in the three towns of Qiling, Tanxia and Huacheng in Wuhua County (except for the sealing and control area) collected 142497 samples, and the results were negative.

(Reporter Zheng Shu, Chen Huiting, Chen Jiexiong)

The first sampling results of the second round of nucleic acid testing in Zhongshan were all negative

From January 17 to 18, Zhongshan City carried out the second round of nucleic acid testing in the city in two batches in accordance with the principle of "due diligence, no leakage of a household, and no one left behind". As of 15:00 on January 18, the first batch of 11 towns and streets in Tanzhou Town, Sanxiang Town, Panfu Town, Shenwan Town, Cuiheng New District (including Nanlang Street), Torch Development Zone (excluding Renmin Street), East District Street, South District Street, Shiqi Street, Shaxi Town, and Dachung Town had 2310267 people, and the results were negative.

Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City reporter Zhang Xiangyu

Guangdong has strengthened the prevention and control of the epidemic in the post-customs delivery link of international mail express mail

Recently, the epidemic prevention and control work of international mail and express mail has attracted widespread attention from the society. A few days ago, the Guangdong Postal Administration issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Epidemic Prevention and Control Work of the Provincial Delivery Link of International Mail Express", which requires strengthening the prevention and control of the epidemic in the delivery of international mail express in the province.

Yesterday, the reporter learned from relevant departments that Guangzhou and other places have effectively done a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic in key links such as transportation, processing (sorting, transit), delivery and other key links in the city after customs clearance is completed, as well as key parts such as operation sites, personnel, vehicles, and the environment.

Guangzhou:

Arrive in the city and disinfect immediately

"After the international mail express arrives at the first station in the city after customs clearance, it should be disinfected twice, the disinfection process should be monitored throughout the process, and the 'disinfected' logo should be pasted on the packaging, and at the same time, a reminder about protection will be sent to the recipient before delivery, or a reminder will be posted on the email." The relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Postal Administration said.

At the same time, the Guangzhou Municipal Postal Administration said that places involving international mail express sorting, transit, delivery and other places should be recorded and managed, divided into special areas for storage and processing, physical isolation from domestic mail express areas, and regular comprehensive disinfection of places and their operating equipment.

For the transport vehicles and delivery vehicles of international mail express, the Guangzhou Postal Administration requires that it should be relatively fixed, and domestic mail express mail should not be mixed when loading international mail express, and the loading and unloading operations and delivery will be implemented one-trip and one-way elimination after completion.

In addition, the Guangzhou Municipal Postal Administration also requires that employees who are in direct contact with international mail express mail need to complete the whole process of vaccination (reinforced injection) vaccination, and implement record management according to fixed positions.

Zhuhai:

Adhere to the "people, things, environment" defense

In Zhuhai, there are 6 express delivery companies engaged in international mail express business, of which 4 are cleared in Guangzhou or Shenzhen, and 2 are cleared in Zhuhai. According to statistics, about 6,000 pieces of imported express mail are cleared from Zhuhai every day, which are processed by the International Express Center and sent to all parts of the country. The number of imported international mail shipments delivered locally in Zhuhai is about 800 per day.

To this end, the Zhuhai Postal Administration has strengthened the prevention and control of key links. Express delivery companies are required to strictly implement the main responsibility for epidemic prevention and control, implement the strictest prevention and control measures, and adhere to the same prevention of "people, things and the environment". Supervise and guide postal express delivery enterprises that operate international express mail to do a good job in disinfection and ventilation of international mail express processing places such as international mail interchange stations and international express processing places, and strictly prevent overseas epidemics, especially in high-risk countries and regions, from being imported through delivery channels. Imported international mail express, after entering the production processing link, the first time to carry out comprehensive disinfection, to ensure that the mail express packaging disinfection in place, vehicle disinfection in place, distribution processing to form a closed loop.

Dongguan:

"One piece, one hand" when delivering

According to reports, Dongguan strictly controls all aspects of transportation management. Enterprises are required to strictly implement the drivers and accompanying personnel who transport international mail express mail shall not participate in the loading and unloading operations after customs clearance, and shall not open the box without authorization during transportation. When the vehicle is entered and exited, the driver and the accompanying personnel shall avoid unnecessary contact with other personnel in addition to the registration of vehicle and personnel information as required. Before and after the transport vehicle arrives at the first stop of the destination city after customs clearance, the surface of the vehicle, the inner wall of the carriage loaded with international mail express mail and the parts that the transport operators may contact should be thoroughly disinfected. When transport vehicles load international mail express mail, they must not mix domestic mail express mail, and implement one trip and one elimination after the loading and unloading operations and delivery are completed.

At the same time, properly handle international mail express mail, so as to achieve "one piece and one hand consumption". After the international mail express arrives at the first stop in the destination city after customs clearance, the second disinfection treatment is carried out at the first time, the disinfection process should be monitored throughout the process, and the disinfection should be pasted on the packaging with the disinfected logo. When the international mail express mail is delivered, it should be "one piece and one hand consumption", directly delivered to the recipient, and must not be stored at the terminal service station for pickup or collected by others; it is recommended to use contactless methods such as smart express boxes.

Postal Broadcasting Center:

Email "Two Six-Sided Killing" "24 hours + 24 hours standing"

China Post Guangdong Provincial Air Mail Processing Center (hereinafter referred to as "Postal Guanghang Center") strictly implements the disinfection of inbound mail, and implements "two six-sided disinfection" and "24 hours + 24 hours standing" for the disinfection of inbound mail.

When the international inbound mail arrives at Baiyun International Airport, the airport cargo station disinfects all the inbound goods in an all-round way and sits for 30 minutes and then delivers them to the Postal Guanghang Center, which sets aside a special area to handle imported mail, and all personnel entering the control area wear "five sets of protection" (protective clothing, face screens, N95 masks, nitrile gloves, shoe covers), and according to the management requirements of the "three districts" (polluted areas, semi-polluted areas, and clean areas), the operators in the polluted areas are centrally inhabited and closed.

The imported mail arrives at the Postal Broadcasting Center, which is left in a specific enclosed area for 24 hours, after which the staff disinfects the six sides of each mail surface, and the disinfected mail is placed in a special standing area by full-time personnel, and then placed for another 24 hours before subsequent processing. Through two disinfections and 48 hours of standing, the disinfection effect is guaranteed as much as possible. At the same time, it hires professional testing agencies to conduct environmental nucleic acid sampling and testing on the environment of the processing site and the outer packaging of the mail every day. (Article/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Zhang Lu)

Express delivery companies:

Conduct private international mail network operations

"For the prevention and control of the epidemic in international mail, we adjust the overall operation process, formulate the operation of the international mail private network, and strictly implement the 'four special' operation requirements after the international mail express is cleared into the company for processing, and the special transportation, special sorting, special delivery, and special place operation are achieved, so that international mail is handled separately and not mixed with domestic mail." Guangzhou Postal relevant sources told reporters.

The postal staff responsible for formulating the delivery of the international mail special network said: "The international mail special investment has increased the cost of enterprises, but in order to ensure the health of the citizens, effectively build a barrier for the prevention and control of the epidemic in international mail express, so that the epidemic prevention and control and security services are not wrong, the postal service will always be implemented in strict accordance with the requirements and guidelines of postal management departments at all levels." ”

The relevant people of SF Express said that in accordance with the epidemic prevention and killing requirements of the epidemic prevention office, customs and airports, they strictly implemented and complied with the epidemic prevention measures of the whole process of international parts, including self-operated outlets, self-delivery and self-pickup points, transit facilities, warehouses, office buildings, operating vehicles, and customer express mail to protect the safety of customers, employees and express mail. "In order to ensure the safety of express mail, for express mail, equipment, ground and vehicles in the venue, epidemic prevention and disinfection are carried out twice a day. At the same time, vehicles and venues are regularly disinfected and registered for archiving. (Article/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Zhang Lu)

Shopping Mall Merchants:

Imported frozen food needs "five certificates and one code" for listing

To do a good job in the prevention of international goods, it is extremely important for relevant enterprises in the consumption chain to do a good job in killing and checking goods.

Guangzhou Aoxing Cold Chain Supply Co., Ltd.'s Aoxing centralized supervision warehouse is one of the first batch of imported frozen food centralized supervision warehouses in Guangzhou. The reporter learned that the centralized supervision warehouse strictly follows the process of "appointment - warehousing according to the appointment time - disinfection before opening the box - sampling of outer packaging - disinfection - standing - inner packaging, sampling of contents - temporary storage of transit warehouse" and other processes, once the inspection finds positive, it will start an emergency response to block the flow of positive goods into the market.

Mall merchants are also active. Guangzhou Friendship actively implements various measures for epidemic prevention and control, traces the origin and disinfection of imported frozen and refrigerated food, and imported frozen food can only be listed and circulated with "five certificates and one code".

In terms of epidemic prevention measures for imported fruits, the relevant person in charge of AEON Max Baile (Guangzhou) Commercial Co., Ltd. said that when the goods arrived, the surface of the outer box was disinfected with alcohol, the customs declaration form, nucleic acid test report, quarantine certificate and disinfection certificate of the fruit were checked, and the qualified fruits were placed in the designated area, 30cm apart from the domestic fruits, and entered in the cold storage pass, and the two-dimensional code was printed out and publicized in the store. (Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Xu Xiaofang)

How to deal with the overseas parcel received?

Relevant departments suggest that citizens and friends should not mail-order goods from high-risk areas abroad unless necessary, and cautiously mail order goods from areas where local epidemic situation reports are located in China.

How to protect yourself when receiving express delivery? Guangzhou Health Education Center gives guidelines: when receiving express delivery should correctly wear masks, wear disposable gloves; advocate the use of non-contact distribution or express cabinet scanning code pickup, if you need to receive the package in person, you should maintain a safe distance of more than 1 meter from the courier; receive the courier, in the case of wearing a mask and gloves, it is recommended to use a concentration of 75% ethanol disinfectant, the express packaging and other objects surface wiped twice, time 3 minutes; express packaging as far as possible not to bring indoors, timely in accordance with the principle of garbage classification After handling the courier, discard the disposable gloves and use the "seven-step handwashing method" to carefully wash your hands for more than 15 seconds. (Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Wu Ling)

How risky is the "physical transmission" of the new crown virus?

According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Municipality, Shenzhen City and Zhuhai City in Guangdong Province held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control work on January 17, each of which reported the situation of local confirmed cases, and all of them did not rule out the possibility of contracting the virus through overseas items.

Why did you make this judgment? How risky is the coronavirus being "passed on in kind" through foreign mail and other items? The reporter relied on authoritative information sources to sort out and summarize.

Why doubt "material transmission"?

Nucleic acid detection and gene sequencing give directions

Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, reported at the press conference on the 17th that a locally confirmed case previously found in Beijing had no history of living in other provinces and cities in the 14 days before the onset of the disease, and after epidemiological investigation and big data comparison, it was not found that it coincided with the trajectory of inbound personnel, people from risk areas outside Beijing, cases and close contacts.

According to reports, the case reported that he had recently sent and received international mail. After sampling and nucleic acid testing, the cdcover personnel found that some of the outer surfaces of the packages, the inner surfaces and the paper specimens in the documents showed positive. Genetic sequence analysis of the case specimens showed that the virus was different from previous cases in Beijing and recently reported strains in China, did not belong to the same chain of transmission, and were similar to some strains isolated in North America and Singapore in December 2021.

Pang Xinghuo said that combined with the epidemiological history of the case, the detection results of the suspicious item sample and the genetic sequencing results of the case specimen, the possibility of infecting the virus through overseas items is not ruled out.

On the same day, Shenzhen held a press conference to inform that the viral genome of a local local case was also different from the previous imported cases, and was 100% homologous with the genome uploaded in North America in the global database.

Lin Hancheng, a second-level inspector of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, said that the case was engaged in the collection and delivery of overseas frozen reagents, had contacted and spun off express deliveries from North America, did not do personal protection, and did not rule out the possibility of being caused by the import of new coronavirus pollutants from abroad. Combined with epidemiological investigations, the traceability of the virus is ongoing.

How risky is "material-to-human"?

Not the main mode of transmission of the new crown virus

Cases of the new crown virus surviving for a long time in low temperatures and spreading through the cold chain have been reported in parts of the mainland in the past year or so. The prevention and control of the epidemic in the mainland has always insisted on the prevention of people, things and the environment.

However, combing through the situation of "material transmission to people" in public reports, it can be found that it is basically a personnel infection at the first contact point such as market and logistics. One of the important reasons is that there are more restrictions on "material transmission to people", which is not the main way of transmission of the new crown virus.

At the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held earlier, Wu Zunyou, chief expert of epidemiology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that to cause infection by "material transmission to people", three conditions need to be met: first, the pollution of the goods is heavier; second, the virus survives on the surface of the object for a long time, generally speaking, the lower the temperature, the longer the virus survives; the third is that appropriate protective measures are not taken when contacting contaminant products.

Wu Zunyou believes that compared with human infection, the amount of virus infected by the substance is different, and the case is prone to asymptomatic infection or mild infection, which is often found in a timely manner and may trigger a new epidemic.

In previous cases, some food surfaces tested positive for nucleic acid, which once caused concerns about "material-to-human transmission". To this end, the relevant person in charge of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center specifically said at the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council that live viruses, dead viruses, and fragments of viruses may be positive for nucleic acid. Just being positive for nucleic acid does not mean that it is contagious, but only that it has been contaminated by the new crown virus.

(Guangzhou Daily all-media reporters Zhang Lu, Chen Zhijia, Liu Manyuan)