Zhejiang optimally adjusts epidemic prevention and control measures for one month: from the guard and change, look at the epidemic prevention posture

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January 1, 2023, Hangzhou Lakeside Pedestrian Street, restored to its usual bustle.

December 5, 2022, Zhejiang around the optimal adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control measures, suddenly a month.

In this month, there has been relief and panic, surprise and grief; in this month, we waved goodbye to 2022, which was disturbed by the epidemic for a whole year, and ushered in 2023, which expects life to return to life.

Like an invisible “scale”, Zhejiang has maintained a balance of smooth economic and social operation to the maximum extent during this month – at one end of the scale is constant change, with epidemic prevention measures and social security constantly adjusted over the past month; at the other end of the scale is At the other end of the scale is a firm guard, to keep the orderly work and life, to keep the hard-won results of the epidemic prevention and control.

And the starting point of the keep and change, as the relevant person in charge of the provincial epidemic prevention and control office said, “The purpose of epidemic prevention and control is to protect the health and safety of the people and economic and social development.” The purpose of keeping and changing is to make the gap between policy protection and people’s demands, smaller.

The three-year epidemic prevention and control practice proves that our epidemic prevention and control measures are scientific and effective, and the historical experience has created conditions and laid the foundation for optimal adjustment. Keeping and changing is a kind of dialectical thinking: we should not just pursue keeping and ignore the people’s immediate feelings, let alone let the socio-economic pendulum stop and ignore it; at the same time, we should not blindly seek change and speed, and ignore the impact brought by the adjustment of prevention and control measures to individuals.

For a month, how is the change? And what has been kept? What do the joys and sorrows, the sorrows and joys of the world that are happening before our eyes suggest?

January 4, 2023, Zhoushan National Ocean Fishing Base 10,000 tons of fishery special dock is busy.

One

Just the past month, the impact of the new crown epidemic is vividly visible –

On December 25, a press conference on the prevention and control of the epidemic in Zhejiang Province revealed that the daily number of new positive reports in the province exceeded 1 million cases, the highest number of visits to fever clinics in a single day exceeded 400,000, and more than 13,000 new crown cases were treated in hospitals. In parallel, it is difficult for the people to buy drugs, fever clinics are hard to find, and medical staff are overloaded ……

Some people are beginning to question the “loosening” of the policy, will let the hard to hold the three-year results go down the drain?

In the face of the ever-exposing difficulties of people’s livelihood, the epidemic prevention measures have been iterated and optimized in response to changes. On December 17, the provincial epidemic prevention and control leading group meeting decisively advocated: the province’s all levels of party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, and public places still require “sweeping code” to check the nucleic acid certificate, resulting in long queues for nucleic acid testing, and easily triggering more people to get infected. Party and government organs, enterprises and institutions take the lead, no longer check the nucleic acid negative certificate.

As the number of positive infections increased, hospitals had a difficult time. A short video of health care workers tearfully telling their positions with illness was widely forwarded. The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to the public. The new year’s day holiday, Zhejiang many medical care sunshine allowance list, medical staff said “received, very warm”. Netizens message: “This is what you deserve.”

On Dec. 30, 2022, volunteers from Fuxi community in Jiande, Hangzhou, distribute “vaccination kits” to elderly people in the district for free.

The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. The humane approach of first rural and first elderly has soothed many anxious feelings. Li Caijiao, an old man living alone in Lincha Village, Lianhua Town, Jiande City, received the first batch of “epidemic prevention kits”, which included a bottle of disinfectant, 10 medical surgical masks, a board of Chinese medicine to clear fever and detoxify the body, 3 fever-reducing pills, and a warm reminder of epidemic prevention and health.

In the past month, every step like this is based on the realistic needs of the people and the justifiable management considerations. From the very beginning, the optimization measures have been scientific and effective in the direction of following the facts, respecting the laws and responding to public opinion. From the beginning to the end, the number of people and the way of distributing the “vaccination kits” reflect the reasonableness based on the realistic conditions and the effectiveness of the work. This consideration brings the initiative and flexibility of a social system to the public in a controlled manner, thus soothing the hearts of the people in a panic. It has been said that a “vaccination kit” can top 10,000 words.

This coming January 8, we will enter a new phase of the implementation of the new coronavirus infection “B class B control”, facing a new situation of epidemic prevention and control, and the new challenge of maintaining a balance between the “scales” of guarding and change.

As the person in charge of the provincial epidemic prevention and control office said: we will do our best to delay the arrival of the peak of infection, “one day later, one less person, are victorious.”

“The gradual liberalization of the policy should not be confused with ‘lying flat’.” Wu Xifeng, dean of ZU’s School of Public Health, believes that the current adjustment is planned, step-by-step and by population. This shows that the policy relaxation has its scientific basis. Whether it is the national “twenty articles”, “new ten articles”, or the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention measures in Zhejiang, each step of change is based on the concept of seeking truth from facts, respecting science and public opinion, and is scientific, proactive and controllable.

Two

Over the past month, those frequent and small changes have guarded millions of families. Some people ask, this step by step government as a response to the people’s demand, how to interact to promote?

The government’s act of transferring drugs after the people’s lack of drugs is a good explanation.

The number of positive infections increased sharply, WeChat circle of friends, microblogging, pharmacies were “robbed” empty, online delivery platform “burst single” scene screen, as if the speed of drugs into shortage, faster than the spread of Omicron.

Zhejiang then to the province’s 11 district cities emergency allocation of drugs. Behind this decision is the advancement of countless individual demands, but also the embodiment of government departments’ ability to implement.

On December 20, Lu Zhenzhen, head of the pharmacy department of the Third People’s Hospital of Hangzhou City, Yuhang District, Bottle Kiln Branch, was deeply anxious: “The demand is so great that there are few antipyretics left in our community health service center.” Watching the residents anxiously looking for and dispensing medicine, she and her colleagues were eager to help, but faced with a network-wide shortage of drugs, she was at her wits’ end.

On Dec. 24, a notice from Hangzhou’s Pharmacy Management Quality Control Center made her frown gradually relax – a batch of antipyretic drugs could be dispatched in the near future, and she needed to count the drug demand of each health service center overnight. On the same day, 15 million acetaminophen tablets began to be distributed overnight to the province’s 11 district cities.

At 8 a.m. on Dec. 25, when Lu Zhenzhen arrived at the pharmacy of Yuhang District No. 3 People’s Hospital, there were already many community hospital colleagues waiting. Soon, she received the first batch of 51 drugs for the center and 10 sites first. On the same day, 80,000 boxes of antiviral treatment drugs were sent to medical institutions across the province.

What about the lack of drugs in pharmacies and more people wanting to buy drugs? The city of Hangzhou was the first to issue an initiative to all citizens: share the extra drugs and items to those in urgent need while meeting their own needs.

Ms. Yang from Block 42 donated several boxes of antipyretics and antigen testing reagents to the “shared medicine box”. When he received the medicine from the staff of the committee, he could not help but cry: “My children are not around, and this epidemic has brought down both of us. Thank you.”

A small piece of medicine, let us see, change also happened among the people, people have reached out to the strangers around.

Lv Wanze, a Zhejiang university student who returned to his hometown, came to Shengzhou Post Office to work part-time as a “courier”. He hopes to help ease the pressure in his hometown during this special period.

Gao Xin, a driver of Hangzhou Bus Group, was trained as an ambulance driver. He said, these days guarding the life channel, especially meaningful.

Yuyao City, Lu port town Qiuao village party branch secretary Qiu Minghui, regardless of hardships, regardless of gains and losses around, free medicine for the villagers at home. He hopes that through his own little effort to help some people through the difficult times.

This month, in the process of guarding and changing, government departments and ordinary people, form a closer community. This month of change gives us the highlights: government, society, and individuals, each with their own responsibilities and obligations.

On December 21, 2022, a “shared medicine box” appears at the entrance of Zhongzhao Yujingyuan district in Haining, Jiaxing.

Three

For a month, the heaviest weight of the guard, from all medical staff. Zhejiang’s medical institutions at all levels have been put to a major test, with fever clinics soaring, hospitals overloaded, and frontline medical staff attrited to varying degrees …… Under the goal of “protecting health, preventing serious illnesses, and curbing deaths,” the province has more than 6,500 fever clinics and In order to protect everyone’s health, many “positive” medical personnel are standing by their posts.

Qiu Fangfang, a doctor in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of Zhejiang University Hospital, has been working continuously for more than 10 days, facing critically ill patients every day: “None of the ventilators here is free, and ECMO is used almost every day. We dare not take a day off.”

Cai Wenwei, director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, remembers that sometimes, 120 ambulances come more than 80 times a day. He said, “Even though people were psychologically prepared, it was still very shocking when patients poured into the emergency room. And I, as a doctor, had to hold up.”

During New Year’s Day, doctors in the fever clinic at the Binjiang Campus of Zhejiang University Second Hospital were basically infected with the new crown, and Liu Jinliang, an infection doctor who insisted on being on duty, said, “Individuals are a little more tired, but patients are able to wait a little less.”

In the past month, the biggest change is that the medical system has made rapid adjustments during the big test. We saw that three years of fighting the “epidemic” had built up a strong resilience for the medical treatment system. The flexibility and adaptability of treatment plans, departmental functions and staff adjustments have helped to protect the health of more people.

ZJUH has expanded its critical care capacity to the greatest extent possible, with nearly 600 critical care beds in the hospital, realizing that beds are waiting for people and medical care is waiting for people. At the same time, more than 60 fever outpatient consultation rooms are available, and the capacity can be expanded to 7,000 patients/day with “scheduling following the queue”.

The emergency outpatient clinic of Zhejiang University Pediatric Hospital had the most difficult time: the number of fever clinic visits exceeded 3,500 on a single day, and the nighttime fever clinic alone had more than 1,800 visits. The hospital made the decision to suspend the opening of the rehabilitation department and other wards, and redeployed all the relevant medical and nursing staff to the emergency department.

On December 10, Hangzhou just announced the list of fever clinics (clinics) in the city, the fever clinic of Caihe Street Community Health Service Center was established simultaneously, and officially opened on December 12, and 68 community residents were treated on the same day. It is reported that nearly 200 grassroots community hospitals in Hangzhou have opened fever screening clinics one after another, these “doorstep” hospitals to relieve the pressure of large hospital visits, effectively diverting patients.

In the urban and rural street corners, many nucleic acid sampling booths turned into “fever treatment stations”. Anji County Jiayuan Square “fever diagnosis and treatment station”, a patient in the field registration, consultation, dispensing drugs, said: “than the hospital convenient.” The stationed doctor, Wang Feng, said the booth is equipped with antipyretic drugs, Chinese medicine, cough medicine and Chinese herbal medicine, and can provide “one-stop” service for patients with mild fever.

On December 23, 2022, some of the nucleic acid sampling sites in Huzhou will be transformed into fever treatment stations, so that the public can have one-stop consultation and take medicine.

Four

During this very month, the Central Economic Work Conference and the Provincial Economic Work Conference were held one after another, releasing strong signals – the need to hold the economy, stabilize the start, and make concerted efforts to recoup the losses caused by the epidemic.

The Sixth World Zhejiang Business Conference was held under the expectation of all people. Provincial Party Secretary Yi Lianhong said at the opening ceremony: as long as we accurately understand the change, scientific response, proactive change, we can be good at finding and grasping opportunities, cherish and use the opportunity, fully have the conditions and ability to achieve better development, embrace the new era, walk a new journey, achieve a new leap.

A month, grasp the production, promote consumption, grab orders, attract foreign investment, we see the Zhejiang people that never give up, the tougher the more forward tenacity –

In order to keep the development of vitality, many places with consumption vouchers, targeted relief vouchers, annual mail to home and other “real money” to support enterprises to stabilize jobs and retain workers; to keep the vitality of foreign trade, as of mid-December, Zhejiang has sent a large number of enterprises and relevant departments to go to sea to stabilize orders, bringing back more than 2.6 billion U.S. dollars of import and export contracts and intention contracts; to keep the market order, a thousand pharmaceutical and medical enterprises, commitment to production according to law, maintain price stability …… everyone to break the routine, change the inertia of thinking, in order to seize the opportunity, breakthrough development, in the change to open a new bureau.

On December 15, 2022, Hangzhou organized more than 100 enterprises to go to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to participate in the “Overseas Hangzhou” series of exhibitions in Dubai.

The year 2023 has come and gone, and the gradual restoration of fireworks around the New Year’s Day holiday reveals a hint of warmth. However, it is clear that the epidemic is not ready to be declared over.

Right now, the number of seriously ill patients is still increasing; new strains such as XBB have emerged; the threat of “Yangfeng” is still rampant; the Spring Festival has begun, and the movement of people will inevitably lead to changes in the epidemic; and there is a lot of pressure on prevention and control in rural areas ……

However, when we see the “keep and change” from this recent month, and think of the generosity of “how can we say no clothes, and the son with the robe”, we can finally have greater certainty about the future. We believe that professional voices will be louder, information will be clearer, research and countermeasures will be more accurate, and the epidemic will eventually fade away.