Sichuan Provincial Health Commission: the province's new coronavirus infection peak has passed No new virus sequences have been found

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Spring Festival holiday just ended, this morning (January 28), the Sichuan Provincial Health and Health Commission held a regular meeting of the leading group of epidemic prevention and control and the province’s health and health system to close the heart of the work conference. The reporter learned from the meeting that the peak of new coronavirus infections in the province has passed, and the trend of new infections is declining significantly. “The province has smoothly passed the three peaks of fever outpatient, emergency and seriously ill patients, and the highly concerned epidemic in rural areas has not rebounded significantly, and the overall epidemic situation in the province is smooth and orderly.” Xu Bin, deputy director of the Provincial Health and Wellness Commission, informed at the meeting.

During the Spring Festival, Sichuan insisted on carrying out multi-point monitoring of the new crown epidemic throughout the province, with 110 full genome sequencing of the virus, and no new virus sequences have been found yet. At the same time, the strict implementation of the entry of abnormal state personnel antigen and nucleic acid testing, has also not yet found new variant viruses imported from abroad.

In terms of primary services and critical care, during the Spring Festival, positive and critically ill patients in Sichuan continued to decline, with no significant mini-peaks of treatment or shortage of medical resources, and normal medical order is gradually being restored. By strengthening inter-institutional coordination, further concentrating expert power, human resources, drugs and equipment and critical patients to the tertiary general hospitals, relying on the three-level critical care system of provinces, cities and counties and the consultation mechanism of four high-level general hospitals such as Sichuan University West China Hospital and Provincial People’s Hospital, sinking the power of critical experts to ensure that every case of critical patients is consulted and guided by the provincial expert group. since January 1 (as of January Since January 1 (as of January 27), the bed utilization rate in medical institutions above the second level has dropped from 96.89% to 60.04%, and the ICU bed utilization rate has dropped from 87.50% to 49.73%. The number of positive patients in the hospital dropped from a peak of more than 80,000 in the previous period to more than 8,000, and medical order was restored well.

With the continuous optimization of epidemic prevention and control measures, and according to the principle of graded classification of services, Sichuan provided “three observations” (observation of the presence of “silent hypoxia”, observation of abnormal health status, and observation of the aggravation of underlying diseases) no less than twice a week for key populations during the Spring Festival. Two tests” (antigen test, body temperature test) “a door-to-door” (door-to-door distribution of health kits) services for key groups of people to carry out a total of 2,726,000 health services. Each county (city, district) to township as a unit to form more than 8,800 “traveling medical team”, the jurisdiction of the township health centers, complex villages and nursing homes and other welfare institutions to conduct rounds, face to face to provide medical treatment and health monitoring services, and coordinate the distribution of drugs and necessary equipment and other materials to township health centers, village health offices. Before the holiday season for the province’s 44,800 village health offices equipped with free finger clip oximeter more than 90,000, etc.

Next, Sichuan will continue to strengthen epidemic surveillance and trend analysis; strengthen the monitoring of new mutations, especially those imported from abroad; strengthen the protection of key populations, vaccination, epidemic prevention and health services in rural areas, while ensuring that drugs, protective materials, referral mechanisms and other parties are in place to prevent a possible second wave of the epidemic and the challenges posed by new mutations.