Hangzhou Epidemic Prevention and Control Bulletin: How was this transit case discovered? What are the next prevention and control measures?

Source: Qianjiang Evening News

Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Yu Wenwen

On the afternoon of October 31, Hangzhou held 37 press conferences on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic.

How was this transit case in Hangzhou discovered?

Sun Yongrong, secretary of the party committee and director of the Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission, briefed on the relevant situation:

On the morning of October 31, Hangzhou City detected a positive nucleic acid case of the new coronavirus from the interception of people from transiting Hangzhou trains outside the province.

Zhan X (female), the work unit and address are in Lianshan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. On October 29, Zhan X and his colleague Yang X (female) took the G1382 train from Shangrao to Shanghai, with seat numbers 5 cars 03A and 03B. On October 30, two people returned to Shangrao from Shanghai on the K287 train, and the seat number was 8 carriage sleepers 21 and 22.

During the K287 train, the 2 people received a call from the Shangrao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention and were told that they were close contacts of the confirmed case. The 2 people immediately contacted the conductor, and the conductor asked the two to get off the train temporarily nearby and coordinate with the front arrival station - Hangzhou South Railway Station. After receiving the report, Hangzhou immediately arranged for the transfer, and after the 2 people got off the bus, they were transferred by negative pressure ambulance to the designated hospital in our city.

On the morning of October 31, Zhan X was initially positive for nucleic acid, positive for the municipal CDC, and had symptoms such as fever, combined with clinical manifestations, and was diagnosed as a confirmed case. Another person, Yang Moumou, is currently testing negative for nucleic acid and has no relevant clinical symptoms.

What prevention and control measures has Hangzhou taken?

Hangzhou immediately launched an emergency response mechanism to carry out the investigation and control of related personnel in strict accordance with the requirements of national and provincial epidemic prevention and control norms:

1. The G1382 (Shangrao-Shanghai) train taken by the case on October 29 and the K287 (Shanghai-Nanchang) train on the 30th were 509 people aboard in Hangzhou, and their related contacts are implementing control and sampling and testing.

2. The situation in other provinces and cities involved in the epidemiological investigation of the case has been co-investigated in relevant areas.

What prevention and control measures will be taken next?

At present, the whole territory of Hangzhou is a low-risk area, and the case is strictly implemented from the discovery to the isolation of the whole process of closed-loop management, please do not panic. If you have the following situations, please take the initiative to report the relevant situation to the community, unit, and hotel, and cooperate with the health management measures:

1. Passengers taking the G1382 (Shangrao-Shanghai) train on October 29 and the K287 (Shanghai-Nanchang) train on October 30.

2. Within 14 days, personnel returning to Hangzhou from Lianshan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province.

The general public should wear masks scientifically, wash their hands frequently, ventilate frequently, do not gather, maintain safe social distance, pay attention to shelter when coughing and sneezing, use public chopsticks and spoons, and develop good hygiene habits. When entering and leaving key public places, they should actively cooperate with prevention and control measures such as temperature measurement, check health code and itinerary code, and wear masks. It is not necessary to go out less and not to travel to provinces with medium- and high-risk areas and local outbreaks.