On January 23, 2022, Xi'an, Shaanxi, Xi'an City began to resume normal production and life in an orderly manner, many merchants in many streets and alleys have opened their doors to welcome guests, and citizens have begun to taste food and buy New Year goods here.
Today, the Office of the Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, issued a notice that according to the current epidemic prevention and control situation, the city will be reduced to a low-risk area from January 24, 2022. From today, Xi'an will resume normal travel, and people leaving the city will not need to issue a certificate of departure from the city.
Xi'an has experienced a month of emptiness and will also usher in the prosperity of the past. In memory, for Xi'an, it is the grace and magnificence of the Tang Dynasty that never sleeps; it is the thick history of the emperor and generals; it is the bravery and fearlessness of the self-proclaimed "meat sandwich steamed bun" to support when the epidemic broke out.
This outbreak is the largest number of cases and the largest local outbreak in a megacity on the mainland since Wuhan. From 9 December, when xi'an had its first locally confirmed case, to 23 January, Xi'an reported a total of 2,053 locally confirmed cases. Round after round of nucleic acid testing, one month of closed management, one after another mutual assistance in neighborhood streets, the figure of grass-roots community workers from morning to night, the emergence and solution of problems.... This epidemic has made all Xi'an people and the whole country remember.
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On January 23, 2022, Xi'an, citizens took the Xi'an Metro to travel in an orderly manner. As many places in Xi'an urban area began to resume normal production and life in an orderly manner, the passenger flow of Xi'an Metro also rebounded significantly.
On January 23, 2022, Xi'an, Xi'an urban area began to resume normal production and life in an orderly manner, and many merchants in many streets and alleys of Huifang have opened their doors to welcome customers, and citizens have begun to taste food and buy New Year goods here.
January 23, 2022, Xi'an. On the same day, Xi'an Datang Sleepless City and other scenic spots announced their opening to welcome the Spring Festival. After the opening of the Tang Dynasty Sleepless City, the lights are bright, and some tourists come to play for the first time.
In the early morning of January 24, 2022, in Xi'an, northwestern polytechnical university Chang'an Campus, dozens of buses drove into the campus, and the first batch of students who left school and returned home from Chang'an Campus were transported point-to-point to Xi'an City for "two stations and one station", and embarked on the road back home in an orderly manner.
The road to the fight against the epidemic
On 9 December, xi'an had its first locally confirmed case.
From the afternoon of December 20, 2021, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Xi'an will be observed at home, while classes will be suspended without stopping, and the resumption time will be announced separately. The picture shows that on the afternoon of the same day, at the entrance of a middle school on Xi'an Friendship Road, after the school was suspended, the parents at the school gate drove to pick up the students who lived in the school and left the school one after another.
On December 20, 2021, merchants were packing vegetables at the Xi'an Xinqiao Agricultural Products Logistics Center. At that time, the daily market volume of vegetables in Xi'an was about 13,000 tons, and the market supply was sufficient and stable.
On December 22, 2021, in the Xi'an International Convention and Exhibition Center in Xi'an, two sets of air membrane laboratories for nucleic acid testing were officially opened, with a maximum daily testing capacity of 250,000 tubes. The picture shows the staff working in the laboratory. On December 22, the second round of nucleic acid testing in Xi'an was positive for 127 people.
On December 22, 2021, Xi'an announced that the city's units and communities will implement closed management from 00:00 on December 23, 2021, and Xi'an citizens will purchase daily necessities overnight.
Starting at 00:00 on December 23, 2021, the city's community and village groups and units implement closed management, each family in Xi'an has 1 person going out to purchase daily necessities every 2 days, and other family members generally do not go out except for work in industries closely related to epidemic prevention and control, urban operation guarantee, and residents' lives, and need to hold a certificate issued by the unit and the community. The picture shows the first day of the closed management of the districts and units in Xi'an, and there are almost no vehicles in the morning peak of the south third ring road in the city.
At 8:00 p.m. on December 23, 2021, "the elderly, children, and people with limited mobility walked this way..." The free nucleic acid sampling point of Rongxin Community in Beilin District, Xi'an was in good order, and the epidemic prevention personnel who had been working in the cold wind for nearly 14 hours cooperated efficiently, and opened up a "green channel" here to take care of special groups such as the elderly, children, pregnant women, and people with limited mobility, to help special groups quickly complete sampling.
On the afternoon of December 25, 2021, at the examination center of the Friendship Campus of Xi'an Northwestern Polytechnical University, candidates who finished the examination walked out of the examination room with a victory gesture.
At about 20:00 on December 25, 2021, it was snowing lightly in Xi'an, and at the Xinqiao Agricultural Products Logistics Center, the Xi'an Logistics Industry Trade Union Federation sent masks, disinfectants and other epidemic prevention materials to truck drivers transporting daily necessities. On December 25, there were 155 new confirmed cases in a single day, breaking through 100 for the first time.
On December 25, 2021, Xi'an, Lintong District launched a new round of nucleic acid screening, in Xiaojin Street, more than 30 kilometers southeast of Lintong City, because of heavy snow on the day, and there are many special groups such as people with reduced mobility in the mountains, in order to ensure the safety of villagers during nucleic acid screening in 1 community and 5 administrative villages. Each village committee not only set up a fixed nucleic acid collection point, but also composed of more than 30 cadres of the street village group and more than 30 medical personnel of the street health center, 10 mobile sampling teams went up the mountain and down the ditch to sample nucleic acid for the masses, adding up to a hike of more than 70 kilometers.
On December 28, 2021, Xi'an, the night of the 6th day of closed management, Xi'an, citizens fought the epidemic at home, and the lights of residential buildings were almost on.
On the morning of January 1, 2022, in a sealed management community in Qujiang New District, Xi'an, property staff hung a special New Year banner in a conspicuous position in the community to boost the confidence of people during the epidemic. The banner read: "No winter will not pass, no spring will not come, and the new year will be good".
On January 1, 2022, Zhao Jiayi from Weinan, Shaanxi Province, a graduate student, took the initiative to join the volunteer team of the civil aviation community in Lianhu District, Xi'an, put on protective clothing and became the "big white" on the front line of the fight against the epidemic, assisting medical staff in nucleic acid collection and distributing daily necessities to community residents. Due to the large number of residents in her community and the presence of confirmed patients, the community work is stressful, and she works more than 8 hours a day, often returning to her residence in the early morning.
On January 2, the number of local confirmed cases in Xi'an exceeded 100 for 8 consecutive days (December 25, 2021 to January 1, 2022), and the number of local confirmed cases in Xi'an exceeded 90.
On January 4, 2022, a new round of nucleic acid screening was being carried out in a small district in Xi'an. On that day, the lowest temperature was minus 1 degree Celsius, and Liang Shuang, a medical worker from Shangluo City, warmed himself with a small sun between nucleic acid sampling.
On the morning of January 5, 2022, the anti-epidemic team members carried out the disinfection in the Lankong Taoyuan Community in Lianhu District, Xi'an. On the same day, the Jingkai Squadron of Xi'an Weiyang District, the headquarters of the special combat rescue team, joined hands with a number of pure public welfare non-governmental rescue organizations to carry out centralized disinfection of 6 residential communities, with a total area of more than 500,000 square meters. On January 5, the social aspect of the epidemic was basically cleared, and the total number of cases showed a downward trend, all of which were discovered in the isolation control and risk control areas, and the social surface was basically cleared. The momentum of the spread of the epidemic has been effectively contained.
On January 7, 2022, in Xi'an, two brothers in protective clothing were eating noodles.
On January 9, 2022, Xi'an, Northwestern Polytechnical University received various materials donated by alumni and all sectors of society.
On January 9, 2022, Xi'an, Xi'an Zhonglou Road, the former bustling downtown of Xi'an, became silent under the closed management of epidemic prevention and control.
On January 9, 2022, in Xi'an, a cleaner cleaned the road area on South Avenue. Since the launch of the epidemic closure management in Xi'an, the whole city seems to be silent, and the "urban beauticians" still insist on frontline work, using hard work to ensure the cleanliness of the streets and alleys, and they are also the unsung heroes who guard the city.
On January 11, the number of daily increase confirmed cases dropped to single digits for the first time, and those stranded in Xi'an due to the epidemic could leave the market with conditions.
On January 15, 2022, Xi'an, Xi'an High-tech Hospital, which was closed for rectification. It is reported that on the morning of January 13, due to the delay in the rescue and diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients, Xi'an High-tech Hospital and Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital under Xi'an International Medical Investment Co., Ltd. were suspended for rectification, and the stock price of International Medicine immediately fell to a halt.
On January 15, 2022, in Weiyang District, Xi'an, citizens walked out of the supermarket after shopping. According to the actual situation of epidemic prevention and control, many districts and counties in Xi'an have issued notices to gradually and orderly restore order to life and production in low-risk areas.
On January 18, 2022, in Xi'an, subway staff disinfected the environment inside the station. With the improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation, the public transportation capacity in Xi'an's low-risk areas has begun to gradually and orderly recover under the premise of implementing the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, ensuring that people have necessary transportation such as medical treatment, supply guarantee, and resumption of work.
On January 18, 2022, a group of cute cartoon tigers appeared on the protective clothing of the volunteers of the Zhongtie Shangdu City community in Ducheng Street, Yanta District, Xi'an City, some holding firecrackers, some carrying lanterns, and some sending "blessings" to their homes... Create a strong New Year's atmosphere on the front line of the fight against the epidemic. On January 18, the first single-day "0" was added, and nearly 2/3 of the patients were cured and discharged from the hospital.
At 0:00 on January 20, Qujiang New Area, Weiyang District, Economic Development Zone, International Port Area, etc. resumed normal epidemic prevention and control, and residents can freely enter and exit the community with green codes
On January 21, 2022, Xi'an launched nucleic acid screening in key areas, and citizens braved heavy snow to receive nucleic acid testing. At 0-24:00 on January 21, there were no new confirmed cases in Xi'an.
January 23, 2022, Xi'an, the Xi'an Bell Tower in the snowy night is beautiful. On January 22, Xi'an ushered in the first snow of 2022, and on the 23rd, the snow still did not stop, intermittently falling.
On January 23, 2022, Xi'an Datang City resumed opening, and that night, some Xi'an citizens toured the long-lost Datang City in the snow. Datang Sleepless City is also ready for the arrival of the New Year.