Source: Health Times reporter Qiu Yue
"I feel that the response to the epidemic in Hohhot is really quite praised, although the number of confirmed cases has been rising in the past few days, but as citizens, we are still quite down-to-earth." Lu Xing (pseudonym), a citizen of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, told the Health Times reporter.
According to the latest data released by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Health Commission, there were 63 cases in Hohhot on February 19, and as of 24:00 on February 19, there were 131 locally confirmed cases in Hohhot.
Hohhot residents lined up in the community for nucleic acid testing, and the interviewee provided a picture.
The first case was not the original source of infection, and the virus was confirmed as Delta
According to the information released by the Hohhot Health Commission, the first 3 confirmed cases reported in Hohhot are the staff of the garbage transfer station on Dongku Street in the new urban area, two of whom were found in the active medical treatment on February 15, and the other was screened and found as a close contact person that night.
However, it appears that the first case is not the original source of infection. According to the latest press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hohhot, the preliminary judgment of this round of epidemic is that the imported epidemic situation was caused by Liang X and Dong X visiting relatives in Wuchuan County, Hohhot City and Damao Banner in Baotou City. However, none of the first three reported cases were the activity trajectories of Wuchuan County and Baotou Damao Banner.
At present, there is no detailed official notification of how Liang moumou and Dong moumou are related to the transmission, and it can be determined that this is a local epidemic caused by a new overseas import.
According to the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hohhot held on February 19, the virus gene sequencing results of the first three confirmed cases found in this round of epidemic belong to the Delta strain (AY.122 evolutionary branch), and no homologous sequences have been found in the domestic local case and imported case databases.
The wedding banquet became the key point of the epidemic in Hohhot City, and it had been secretly spread for many days before it was discovered
There were 3 cases on February 16, 21 cases on the 17th, 42 cases on the 18th, and 63 cases on the 19th, and since the reported confirmed cases in Hohhot on the 16th, the number of new confirmed cases in a single day has continued to rise. According to official briefings, two wedding banquets held on February 8 at a hotel in Hohhot's new city have become key points in the epidemic.
Wang Dawei, deputy director of the Hohhot Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out at the press conference that after the epidemic was imported into Hohhot, two wedding banquets held in a hotel in the new urban area on February 8 triggered the spread of the epidemic. Due to the long incubation period of the virus and the frequent movement of people during the Spring Festival, it triggered multi-point outbreaks in Wuchuan County, Tuzuoqi, and Linger County and urban areas.
The two wedding banquets had a total of 23 tables and were attended by 165 people. At present, it is not clear how many people participating in the wedding banquet have been confirmed, but from the day of the wedding banquet to the 16th, the first confirmed case was reported, and 8 days have passed in the middle, and the virus has been secretly spread in Hohhot for many days. In addition, due to the frequent flow of people during the Spring Festival, in addition to the urban area of Hohhot, the epidemic has also broken out in Wuchuan County, Tuzuoqi, and Linger Counties, and has spread to Baotou.
Wu Liang, deputy director of the Disease Control Bureau of the National Health and Health Commission, pointed out at the press conference that the epidemic situation in Hohhot is currently in its early stages, the number of cases is growing rapidly, there are clusters of epidemics in crowded places such as units and wedding banquets, there is a high risk of community transmission and spillover, and it is necessary to check the source of risk and key places as soon as possible to find out the scope of the epidemic.
The citizens of Hohhot have completed two rounds of nucleic acids and have sufficient materials
"This epidemic, whether it is the government or the public response is very rapid, on the day of the 16th report of the epidemic, the street was empty in an instant, everyone consciously reduced going out, and cooperated with nucleic acid testing." Lu Xing told the Health Times reporter.
Volunteer, courtesy of the interviewee.
On February 16, the Hohhot Municipal Headquarters for the Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic issued an announcement calling on citizens not to leave Hohhot unless necessary; the city's large-scale lantern fairs, trade fairs, banquets, celebrations, job fairs and other collective activities were suspended; all kinds of social organizations did not hold gathering activities, and the red affairs were postponed and the funerals were simplified.
Since February 17, 2022, Hohhot has organized nucleic acid testing for personnel in key areas.
"At present, we have done two rounds of nucleic acids, one round on the 17th and one round on the 19th, and the citizens are particularly cooperative, standing in line outdoors at minus 7 or 8 degrees, and consciously keeping the interval." Chocobo said.
Lu Xing and several friends are in the community is currently under lockdown, "These days we contact every day, the entire Hohhot city including the sealing and control community are in sufficient supply of materials, the citizens' life is operating normally." ”