Reporter | Li Pengliang Zhou Shiling
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Heihe is becoming the new epicenter of the epidemic.
As of November 1, 79 cases have been confirmed in just 5 days, and there is a risk of spillover of the epidemic, and 1 person with a history of travel to The Heihe River has been confirmed in Harbin.
As of November 1, Heihe has confirmed a total of 79 cases, and the situation is grim
According to the reporter's understanding, a confirmed case had attended a wedding in the local area before the outbreak of the epidemic. Due to the gathering of wedding personnel, it is easy to become a transit point for the virus to spread.
However, the wedding organizers said that due to concerns about the epidemic, the wedding department postponed and tried to reduce the scale, "not many people (attended)". It was also said that among the participating guests, except for one person who was confirmed, the rest of the nucleic acid testing did not see abnormalities, and the confirmed person was infected with the epidemic and had nothing to do with the wedding. At present, the organizer has been quarantined as a close contact.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > organizers said the infection was not related to the wedding and that none of the other guests developed symptoms</h1>
"At 1 a.m., a classmate said he was diagnosed." Because she had eaten with each other and attended the same wedding, Huang Jie became a close contact.
On October 31, after learning the news, the local disease control department told her to "not go out" and cooperated with the circulation. At about 1 p.m. on the same day, she said she was going to the centralized isolation point to isolate.
Huang Jie lives in Aihui District, Heihe City, where most of the cases have been found. At the wedding where there were confirmed cases, Huang Jie was the groom's mother.
According to her, due to the impact of the epidemic, this wedding was cancelled once before, "Originally it was held on October 2, harbin has an epidemic, strict control of the dinner, we did not hold it." ”
For the postponement of the wedding, she has long been mentally prepared, "the epidemic is not sure when it will appear, we also say that depending on the situation (to do the wedding), if there is an epidemic, it will be cancelled at any time, and if there is no epidemic, it will be done whenever it will be done." ”
It was not until October 24, after the end of the epidemic in the province, that the wedding officially restarted.
Due to the previous outbreak of wedding gatherings in Wangkui and other places, Huang Jie was very vigilant, afraid of "what problems will be caused by weddings". Considering the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, she tried to reduce the scale of the wedding as much as possible, and the guests "are all relatives and very good friends at home, and many people have not told them at all."
But she didn't say the exact number, saying only, "A little more than [thirty or forty people], not many people." ”
Huang Jie stressed several times that the wedding and the outbreak of the Heihe epidemic have nothing to do with it, "All the confirmed cases found before have not participated in the wedding, they are all infected in other places, and the behavior trajectory has nothing to do with the wedding." ”
As far as she understands, among the guests attending the wedding, except for one person who was diagnosed on October 30, is currently a mild patient of new crown pneumonia, has been isolated at a designated hospital, and has undergone various examinations, without further treatment, "no one (was diagnosed), and the nucleic acid test did not say positive, asymptomatic (infection)".
She did not know where the confirmed case was infected, "because Heihe is now more than a little outbreak, the news is not all said, it is sporadic, it is not certain where this virus came from." ”
She believes that the infection of the case occurred after the wedding, and the reason why she became a close contact was also because she had eaten with each other several times before, which had nothing to do with the wedding.
"I don't have any symptoms, and I've had two shots of the (NEW CROWN) vaccine, and even if you get it, the ones who get sick are mild." Huang Jie was not nervous, "For this disease, there is no special medicine, you can only rely on autoimmunity, that is to say, self-blessing, can only be like this." ”
The reporter contacted the hotel that undertook the wedding, and the wiring staff said that since the outbreak of the epidemic in Heihe on October 27, the hotel was temporarily closed, and the engagement banquet "can only be set for next year."
Regarding the fact that there were confirmed cases at the wedding held at the hotel, the operator said, "I don't know much about this, we are all isolated at home, and we don't know what the situation is." According to its understanding, there are currently no confirmed cases among the hotel staff.
The reporter's search found that due to the gathering of wedding personnel and intensive contact, it is easy to become a transit station for the flow of the virus, and many local epidemics in the past have been related to weddings and other gathering activities.
For example, in the epidemic situation in Xiaoguo Village, Shijiazhuang in December 2020, nearly 250 people attended a wedding, and more than 20 people were eventually diagnosed. There were also two weddings in Nanqiaozhai Village, with 9 and 26 people diagnosed respectively. During the epidemic in Wangkui County in January of the following year, many infected people also attended the rural wedding banquet more than once, or accelerated the spread of the epidemic.
Since then, once the wedding hits the epidemic, it has attracted special attention. For example, a confirmed case reported by Beijing on October 29 is a photographer who has been filming weddings for two consecutive days. On the same day, Beijing announced that the hotels in the core area (Dongcheng District, Xicheng District) will suspend the holding of wedding banquets, and the wedding banquets already booked in other districts should strictly control the scale of personnel.
From October 29, all hotels in the core area of Beijing will suspend the hosting of wedding banquets, and the scale of personnel in other districts should be strictly controlled for engaged wedding banquets
According to the reporter's understanding, affected by this, some newlyweds in Beijing have decided to reduce the scale of the wedding banquet, only for family dinner, and the rest of relatives and friends have offered blessings through recording videos.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" there is still trade at the Heihe port >, and there is a risk of spillover due to the rapid development of the epidemic</h1>
The Heihe epidemic is menacing.
Since the first locally confirmed case was found in the early morning of October 27, the epidemic has developed rapidly, and 79 people have been confirmed in just 5 days.
Three days later, a confirmed case was also found in Harbin, and the circulation investigation found that it was a person who arrived in Heihe City and returned to Harbin City. As of press time, the number of confirmed cases in Harbin has increased to 3, all of which are actively investigated and found during the period of centralized isolation or home isolation and control.
According to the Heihe Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, most of the confirmed cases are mild and receive isolation treatment in designated medical institutions.
On the same day, Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the Disease Control Bureau of the National Health and Health Commission, said at a press conference that according to the current flow adjustment and virus sequencing results, the Heihe epidemic is not related to the recent local epidemic in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and other provinces and regions, and it is a new epidemic caused by imported viruses from abroad.
At present, the source of the epidemic has not yet been found, and it has only been determined that it is caused by the overseas Delta mutation strain, and the traceability work is still continuing.
Similar to Ejin Banner and Ruili, which attracted attention not long ago, Heihe City is located on the northeast border, across the river from Blagoveshchensk, the third largest city in the Russian Far East and the capital of Amur Oblast, and the passenger terminals of the two places are only 650 meters apart.
The Heihe River port is across the Heilongjiang River from Russia, and the nearest point is only 650 meters away
The local Heihe Port and the corresponding Obu City Port are the largest cities in the Heilongjiang River Basin, the highest urban specifications, the closest transportation distance, and the strongest passing capacity, and are planned as the national logistics hub bearing city of the national land border port type.
Public information shows that due to the impact of the epidemic in Russia, in April 2020, the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk passenger port was temporarily closed. However, the reporter did not find the relevant notice of restarting the port, only reported that from January to September 2021, there are still Sino-Russian trade exchanges at the Heihe port, including soybeans, vegetables and fruits and other agricultural products and coal, and the total import and export freight volume is nearly 3 million tons, an increase of 1.2 times.
Some local residents speculate that the epidemic may be imported into heihe.
At present, heihe has a total of 6 medium-risk areas, including 6 communities in the local Aihui district.
According to Huang Jie, the community where the no. 1 confirmed case of the epidemic is located is not far from her residence, "walking more than 20 minutes (to) half an hour or so." But Heihe is "already small", and after the gradual construction and expansion of the city, it now takes only about an hour to drive around.
What is more worrying is that Wu Liangyou also pointed out that at present, the new cases in Heihe are mainly found through full screening and active medical treatment, indicating that community transmission has occurred in the local area and that there is a risk of spread and spillover.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" > prevention and control upgrade: a daily round of nucleic acids for all employees, all registered residents yellow code</h1>
Heihe City has responded quickly to this round of the epidemic.
Since the first case of the epidemic appeared on October 27, the Heihe City COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Command has issued an announcement announcing the suspension of the operation of theaters, Internet cafes, fitness venues, offline training institutions and other relatively closed spaces, the suspension of individual clinics, the suspension of mass activities, and the promotion of not holding gathering activities.
On the same day, Heihe also carried out the first round of nucleic acid testing for all employees in the urban area. By November 1, the local government had launched a sixth round of nucleic acid testing, that is, one round of testing per day, covering more than 180,000 people. It is understood that the local government has also set up more than 120 nucleic acid sampling points in the urban area so that residents can test nearby.
In addition, Huang Jie said that since October 29, her community has also implemented sealing and control measures, "(community residents) are all isolated, the requirements are very strict, now they are out once every two days, one family allows one person to go out, not allowed to leave the community", and the community where the epidemic occurs is sealed and uniformly distributed materials.
Heihe also had an epidemic last year, although the scale is relatively small, it still caused some local industries to stop work and production, and this situation has also recurred in the recent epidemic. "In a small supermarket under 100 square meters, I saw that there were several seals, and the hotels near my house and restaurants were also closed." Huang Jie said.
On 30 October, the single-day new cases in Heihe were still double digits and spread to Harbin. At 6:00 a.m., the Information Office of the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province released a message saying that in view of the severe and complex epidemic situation in Aihui District of Heihe City, in order to further tighten the control measures, from now on, the Longjiang health code of residents registered in Heihe City will be uniformly changed to a "yellow code", and the code will be re-assigned after the current round of epidemic situation is stable.
Residents of Heihe City, who live in other places for many years, said that their yards suddenly turned yellow and could not be solved
This unprecedented prevention and control measure has caused a lot of controversy.
Because many Heihe household registration personnel who work and live outside the home are also within the scope of the "yellow code", even if they have no recent history of living in Heihe. In today's code check everywhere, the yellow code personnel are almost unable to move. It is understood that some candidates missed the exam because of this, and some people were isolated in their homes in other places.
In this regard, Heihe said that you can call the convenience service hotline 0456-12345 or search for the public number "Heihe Gang", click the yellow code to modify the upload and submit, and the Heihe Cd-operative Center will restore the "green code" in time according to the actual situation.
But in Hu Xiaonuo's view, the processing efficiency is not satisfactory.
Hu Xiaonuo, who now lives in Guangzhou, has not returned to Heihe since the beginning of August, but he has also been affected by the "yellow code for all employees".
At 3 p.m. on October 30, she submitted an application for recoding on the "Black River Gang" public account, and then did a nucleic acid at 9 p.m. that night. Half an hour later, her health code briefly turned green, but two minutes later it turned yellow again. Some netizens speculated that this may be related to their failure to participate in the nucleic acid test in Heihe City. But in other places, how can you return to the epidemic area to participate in nucleic acid testing?
Turning into a yellow code means you can't go anywhere. The community in Guangzhou explicitly asked her not to go out, even though she knew that her "yellow code" had nothing to do with the itinerary, but only because of her household registration. For this reason, Hu Xiaonuo lost sleep until 3 a.m.
On October 31, she called the service hotline again to change the code, but in the end it was not connected.
Neither way worked, and Hu Xiaonuo began to worry about what to do the next day at work, but it didn't seem to be something she could control. She was also afraid that she would be quarantined for the "yellow code".
Another netizen called the mayor's hotline more than 200 times, but either he couldn't get through, and he only played 15 minutes of music when he got through, and no one answered. The public account is also not easy to use, some people encounter garbled codes, and the yellow code remains unchanged after some people submit information.
Some netizens encountered garbled codes when submitting code change information on the Heihe Gang public account
In contrast, many people in Heihe and non-Heihe said that they did not get the "yellow code" and were worried that this would cause epidemic prevention omissions.
On October 31, Wu Quangang, deputy secretary general of the Heihe Municipal Party Committee and director of the Heihe Municipal Bureau of Letters and Visits, responded at the press conference that the "yellow code" of household registration personnel is to strictly prevent the spillover of the epidemic, but it does bring inconvenience to Heihe household registration personnel living and working in other places, and they can handle the application for change through the convenience service hotline and WeChat public account. As of the 30th of that month, the convenience service hotline was fully staffed and had handled the applications of nearly 20,000 people.
At the seventh press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic in Heihe City, the deputy secretary-general of the municipal party committee said that he would increase the work of restoring the green code
(The interviewees in this article are pseudonyms.) ）
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