Hohhot added more than 900 cases of infected people, the orderly opening of supermarket convenience stores in risky neighborhood

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On November 3, 2022, the Health and Welfare Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region informed that from 0-24 hours on November 2, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reported 192 new indigenous confirmed cases, including 188 cases in Hohhot City (including one case converted from an asymptomatic infected person to a confirmed case), and 741 new indigenous asymptomatic infected persons, including 730 cases in Hohhot City.

As of 24:00 on November 2, there were 600 confirmed local cases in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, including 437 cases in Hohhot, and 3,265 cases of existing local asymptomatic infections, including 2,938 cases in Hohhot. All of the above are receiving treatment in designated hospitals or under medical observation in square cabin hospitals, and all close contacts are under centralized isolation and medical observation in designated places to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

Previously in the epidemic prevention and control press conference held on November 2, Hohhot City Health and Wellness Committee secondary researcher Liu Yuanjun introduced that the source of infection of the new crown pneumonia is mainly confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia and asymptomatic infected persons, the main transmission routes are via respiratory droplets and close contact transmission, in a relatively closed environment via aerosol transmission. Recently, there were individual disease-free cells with positive infections after a long period of containment and control. After investigation, it was found that the infection was mainly caused by individual residents of the disease-free community who had “broken the ring”.

To this end, while strengthening the management of the community, Hohhot City further strengthened the closed-loop management of key industries and key populations, in accordance with the principle of “who is in charge and who is responsible, and who is responsible for the employment”, requiring the relevant units to effectively assume the main responsibility for the prevention and control of the epidemic, daily nucleic acid + antigen testing, the day the antigen test negative before starting work. The work of health monitoring, environmental disinfection, training and education should be done simultaneously. At the same time, arrangements for all involved in the community (village) grassroots epidemic prevention and control of the package cadres, medical personnel, political and legal police, grid members, volunteers and other staff focused on living in closed-loop management hotel or by building tents, color steel room living in the duty cell chokepoint, etc., the implementation of the entire closed management, and firmly avoid “broken ring”.

On November 3, Hohhot City to deal with the new coronavirus infection pneumonia prevention and control work command of the market to ensure supply group issued “on the orderly opening of the risk control district supermarkets, convenience stores notice”. It says that from November 3, the supermarkets and convenience stores in the four districts of the city, the Jinchuan area of Tuzuo Banner and the medium-risk neighborhoods of the Economic and Technological Development Zone will gradually resume normal operation.

Hohhot City requires that the staff of supermarkets and convenience stores in the risky neighborhoods, the application to the district’s point manager, and reported to the local community for approval and filing before unsealing. All staff, must wear protective clothing, N95 masks, gloves on duty, do a daily nucleic acid test and secondary antigen testing, before going on duty each day, must check the previous day’s nucleic acid results, do an antigen test, all negative before going to work, and then do an antigen test at night.

At the same time, the residents in the risk of small district supermarkets, convenience stores shopping, to take different buildings staggered picking, interval 1 meter distance queue, outside the store to pick up mode, settlement to sweep the code to pay the way to complete. Shopping residents and supermarkets, convenience stores staff can not form a gathering between them, to take contactless shopping, and by the operator and community staff is responsible for the diversion.

According to the ninth edition of the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control, the medium-risk area is a workplace and activity area where cases and asymptomatic infected persons stay and move for a certain period of time and may have the risk of spreading the epidemic, and the scope of the risk area is determined according to the results of the flow study. Medium-risk area to take “people do not go out of the area, staggered take things” and other control measures, no new infected for seven consecutive days to reduce the risk of low-risk areas.

In addition, on November 2, Hohhot City Commerce Bureau party members, deputy director Tan Jinlong in a press conference on the public reflected the difficult to buy vegetables, buy vegetables expensive problem response, the city established a community convenience stores, along the street vegetable stores orderly restoration of the “white list”, the business sector joint market supervision departments to promote the city’s four districts open nearly 800 District convenience stores and stores along the street, to enrich the distribution network. According to the risk level of the community and social control requirements of the classification to ensure the supply of vegetables, in low-risk areas and no epidemic community to encourage residents to use the flexibility of online shopping or store pick-up way to buy vegetables. In medium- and high-risk areas, residents are encouraged to choose nearby supermarket chains and stores along the streets to purchase vegetables and other daily necessities by placing orders online.