War Epidemic In Greater Wuhan

This reporter Chen Hongxia, Yang Qingqing, Tang Wei Ke Intern Liu Xun, Yao Yulan, Li Qian Wuhan, Yichang reported

The big Wuhan, which sounded the assembly number, is pushing ahead with the "turning point" of the epidemic.

Zhao Jianping told the twenty-first Century business news reporter, "according to the current situation, the average treatment cycle of patients is two to three weeks, or even longer. Compared with many diseases, the treatment cycle is very long, which affects the turnover rate of beds. However, he is more optimistic that the outbreak has been around for about a month now, and most of the patients can be cured at present, and there is expected to be a surge of hospital discharge.

Zhang Yuan looked at the mother lying quietly in the bed of the emergency room at the moment. His tired face was full of anxiety.

In the morning of February 2nd, the noisy emergency room seemed to be much quieter compared with the previous days, but it was still crowded with people. A little larger place was sitting or standing. Everyone in and out wore masks, and the smell of disinfectant floated in the air.

Zhang Yuan's mother was diagnosed as a new coronavirus pneumonia at the end of January. Those days were the peak of the outbreak. The hospital was crowded with doctors and men. Zhang Yuan's mother did not live in the upper house. Accompanied by Zhang Yuan, he could only go to Wuhan Zhongnan Hospital for infusion and take medicine back home for treatment. The weak body and the daily suffering in the hospital for several hours, after a few days, Zhang Yuan's mother's health has gone from bad to worse.

"Looking at my mother's condition worsening day by day, she is a little trembling on her way. I just blame myself for not sharing the great suffering of my mother." Zhang Yuan began to moisten with her eyes, though her mother remained calm every day, even comforting Zhang Yuan, but she could see the sadness of her eyes.

Unable to transfer to the inpatient department for hospitalization, Zhang Yuan's mother once decided not to treat. Fortunately, there was a turnaround in the afternoon of February 2nd, and Zhongnan Hospital accepted Zhang Yuan's mother and transferred to the inpatient department. Her mother's treatment is expected. Zhang Yuan hanged her heart for many days.

East and West Lake area Jiuzhou Tong logistics distribution center. - Chen Hongxia photo

Bed! Bed!

"Beds"... After the outbreak of the outbreak in Wuhan, information on beds for confirmed patients is constantly flooded with Internet social platforms. On the supply side, the left hand is an increasing number of cases. The right hand is the shortage of medical materials that are constantly in urgent need. Hospitals are full of beds and are unable to sustain the surging demand.

Around 16 p.m. on January 29th, a fever clinic in a third class hospital in Hankou liberation Avenue. Staffs dressed in protective clothing guide patients to seek medical treatment or maintain order. On the edge of the flower bed, the patient takes a small stool or sits directly on the flower bed to carry out the infusion.

Grandma Wang, who had had fever for many days, said she had been diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection, but because there was no bed in hospital, she could only injections every day, and then went home to observe.

In twenty-first Century, the economic report reporters visited the Wuhan Union Hospital and the Zhongshan hospital with the designated hospitals simultaneously. Compared with the previous days, the crowd gathered in the fever clinic decreased significantly compared with the previous days, and the diagnostic rate of these hospitals increased significantly.

In order to solve a difficult problem, Wuhan has been trying to take action.

On January 28th, Jiao Yahui, deputy director of the state health and Health Commission, said at a news conference that Wuhan will adopt the "10+10" mode, that is, 10 large hospitals, including personnel, technology and strength, to confiscation 10 small and medium-sized hospitals, out of beds, out of beds and medical personnel.

Previously, three batches of 23 general hospitals were collected in Wuhan, and were temporarily converted into specialized hospitals for treating febrile patients. Among them, the first batch of 7 hospitals included Hankou municipal hospital, City Red Cross Hospital, city seven hospital, city four Hospital West Hospital District, city nine hospital, Wuchang municipal hospital and city five hospital. The second batch is the 3 hospitals of the Central Hospital, the Optics Valley Hospital District, the three hospital of the city, the 3 hospital of Wuhan Iron and steel two hospital, and the largest number of beds can be opened to 6754. At present, beds are still gradually open, and the third batch of hospitals are under construction.

Nevertheless, the number of people is increasing.

Hubei Health Protection Committee announced that at 0 hours -24 on February 1, 2020, 894 new cases of pneumonia caused by new coronavirus in Wuhan were reported. There were 32 new deaths and 32 new cases. In view of the fact that Wuhan's data are no longer published separately, Hubei's data are only used for reference. As at 24 hours in February 1, 2020, 8565 cases were still hospitalized (including 1118 severe cases, 444 critically ill), 48571 patients were closely followed, and 43121 were receiving medical observation.

During the interview, the director of a designated hospital in Wuhan told reporters that when his hospital had just become a designated hospital, the daily outpatient reception volume had reached more than 700 times. The current situation is that with the implementation of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment and community gridding diagnosis and treatment mode, the fever clinics in the major hospitals have significantly reduced, but most of the patients who go to the fever clinic are highly suspected, so the rate of diagnosis is higher than before, but all beds are full and can not be treated again. The latest data can be found, in January 28th, Wuhan fever clinic received 12263 people, leaving 741 people.

The gap between beds is related to the treatment cycle of new crown virus infection.

East and West Lake area Jiuzhou Tong logistics distribution center. - Chen Hongxia photo

Zhao Jianping, director of the Department of respiratory and critical care medicine of Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and head of Hubei medical professional group, told the twenty-first Century economic report, "according to the current situation, the average treatment cycle of patients is two to three weeks, or even longer. Compared with many diseases, the treatment cycle is very long, which affects the turnover rate of beds. However, he is more optimistic that the outbreak has been around for about a month now, and most of the patients can be cured at present, and there is expected to be a surge of hospital discharge.

In addition, there is a big challenge that some hospitals lack the required isolation wards with limited number of beds.

"The general ward cannot isolate viruses. Isolation wards should be set up according to infectious infectious diseases in epidemiology. Zhao Jianping said that the difficulty lies in the establishment of three districts and two channels, that is, the establishment of isolated medical personnel infected areas, buffer areas, medical personnel rest areas, to prevent the spread of viruses, and many intermediate large hospitals have no such ward, can not be treated patients.

Another head of the hospital also said that the requirements for the isolation ward were very high. Apart from the isolation of the partition, the indoor equipment and even the air conditioning system had strict requirements, and many hospitals could not do it completely.

In February 1st, the new Sino French New District of Wuhan Tongji Hospital was designated as the designated hospital for the treatment of severe pneumonia in Wuhan, a new type of coronavirus infection. It plans to add 600 beds. However, due to the lack of medical supplies, the central court district can not be fully opened to the public at that time. In January 30th, the Zhuoer Changjiang emergency hospital of the eighth hospital of Wuhan was formally admitted to the hospital, providing 300 beds, and 144 patients were admitted to the hospital two days before opening. "It is not clear whether the beds are full at present, but there are not many beds even estimated," he said. In February 2nd, the hospital staff told the business reporter in twenty-first Century.

"Bed" has become an urgent need for Wuhan to tackle this epidemic.

East and West Lake area Jiuzhou Tong logistics distribution center. - Chen Hongxia photo

Two new hospitals to join the "war corps"

In view of the current prevention and control system, Wuhan began to implement hierarchical classification treatment.

It is stipulated that patients with fever should first go to the community medical center for medical treatment, and medical personnel will screen and classify the disease. For patients who need to go to the fever clinic, the district should arrange the vehicle to the designated hospital. The designated fever clinic should not refuse the patient for any reason. For patients who do not need further medical treatment, they should be segregated by the community at home, and the community is responsible for the home observation service. To sum up, we should first screen the community and treat the hospital.

Her parents had been infected with small Lu said that after his father's onset, especially after being diagnosed as a new crown virus infected pneumonia patient, she also reflected to the community staff, asked him to arrange for the reception, but the community personnel because of the lack of protective measures, unable to come to help. The lack of beds in major hospitals is similar to that of fathers. She can only send help messages to the community.

A community worker admits that there is a lack of protective ability in the community for screening out the fever clinic. In addition, the shortage of protective equipment and the technical level of medical staff are not easy to receive.

This situation has attracted high-level attention. Hubei Health Protection Committee introduced that at present, Wuhan has expanded third batches of 14 hospitals and 2 private hospitals, and is in strict accordance with the requisition requirements.

There are two new hospitals with high hopes. The fire god mountain hospital in Caidian district was built in seven days of magical speed. It was delivered in February 2nd. It began to treat patients in February 3rd and provided 1000 beds. In addition, the Raytheon Hill Hospital in Jiangxia will also be completed in February 5th. The number of beds will be expanded from about 1300 original designs to about 1600.

Together with the above hospitals, Wuhan will increase nearly 8000 beds.

However, according to the current rate of new cases, the tense situation of Wuhan beds is still hard to understand. "Even if Lei Shen Shan and" fire god mountain "have been put into operation, it is still not enough. The person in charge said that it is necessary to speed up the transformation of the isolation ward of conditioned hospitals, and to expropriate more idle space for isolation.

Hankou third class a hospital fever clinic door. - Chen Hongxia photo

Traceability of epidemic situation

In January 31st, the Beijing Thanksgiving Public Welfare Foundation launched the "Guardian's backing action" project, which allocated the first 100 thousand yuan "special contribution support" to Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan central hospital.

At this time, Li Wenliang's throat swab nucleic acid test has been diagnosed as a new crown virus infection.

Li Wenliang was the first doctor to deliver an epidemic in Wuhan.

It happened in December 30, 2019. On the same day, Li Wenliang saw a patient's test report showing that the patient was diagnosed with the high reliability positive index of SARS coronavirus. He reminded the same doctors that the doctors were paying attention to the protection. He announced in the "clinical grade 04" of Wuhan University that 7 cases of SARS were diagnosed in Wuhan.

There were 7 doctors and nurses who sent messages with Li Wenliang simultaneously. At that time, the group named "concord red will God" and "tumor center" also circulated information about suspected SARS virus in Wuhan.

At that time, people in Wuhan were still living as usual. In the face of the coming new year, everyone was preparing for the new year's goods or looking forward to the holidays.

In January 7th, according to a new type of coronavirus detected by the virus laboratory, the expert group initially identified the pathogen of the unknown viral pneumonia in Wuhan as a new coronavirus.

In January 10th, the public health clinical center of Shanghai, together with the school of public health, Wuhan Central Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan City Center for Disease Control and prevention, published the pathogen genome sequence of "unknown cause viral pneumonia". Wei Jian was briefed by the National Committee of the WHO.

It was also in January 10th that Dr. Li Wenliang, who claimed that the new SARS virus was found in Wuhan, also developed symptoms of cough and fever. In January 12th, Li Wenliang was admitted to hospital and was admitted to ICU after that.

At this time, Wuhan Union Hospital, medical staff have been infected.

Hanyang Jiuzhou Tong's good medicine master pharmacies crowded. - Chen Hongxia photo

In mid December 2019, a hypophysis patient was admitted to Department of neurosurgery in Wuhan Union Hospital. After the completion of the operation, 14 medical staff in the hospital were operated on. In January 11th, the patient suddenly developed fever and caused non infectious postoperative fever. After several rounds of consultation, it was not until January 15th that the patient was diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection. He was transferred to Wuhan's golden Yin Tan Hospital.

Ms. Yang, ICU nurse of Wuhan Union Hospital, was one of the first infected medical workers in the hospital. "From the night shift in January 15th, I found that I had a fever. I even burned it for four days, and I couldn't get rid of it if I took medicine." After discharge, Yang nurses recalled that she was very tired after a long fever. She took the matter to the head nurse. The hospital leader attached great importance to it and arranged for her to be admitted to the infection department for isolation treatment.

However, from several reports in from January 6th to 17th, the number of cases has not increased, and the total number of confirmed cases has decreased from 59 cases to 41 cases. In the four bulletin on December 31st, January 3rd, 5 and 11, there was "no clear evidence of human transmission and no medical staff infection". Until the early morning of January 18th, new cases were reported in the Wuhan Bulletin: 16 new cases of pneumonia caused by 4 new coronaviruses were added.

"Wear a mask! Wear a mask! Wear a mask! " In January, a number of doctors in Wuhan issued a warning to their friends through various means, in this way to remind their friends to prevent virus infection.

Research on the virus began earlier.

In December 31st, China's CDC dispatched 9 experts to join experts in other fields and arrived in Wuhan on the earliest flight. The head of the group of experts was Gao Fu, director of CDC.

The first group of experts arrived in Wuhan has been in Wuhan. After the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan, their analysis of the virus and the host's analysis did not stop.

As of January 30th, global scientists published at least 54 articles on new coronaviruses, more than half of them published in the past 7 days, according to the journal Nature. Among them, more than 30 articles were published on the preprint server, and some appeared in peer reviewed journals including Lancet, Journal of Medical Virology, etc. The results of the search did not include Chinese periodicals. Among the contributors of these papers are the CDC, the Wuhan CDC, the Wuhan Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Wuhan golden Yin Tan Hospital.

They have discussed the Southern China seafood wholesale market as the focus of the epidemic, and also analyzed the argument that the host may be a bat or a wild animal.

In January 30th, China's CDC and Wuhan CDC and other agencies published an article entitled "the initial transmission of pneumonia in Wuhan, China" by the new England Journal of the Medical Journal (NEJM). The article takes 425 cases of newly diagnosed crown virus as the research object, and draws the conclusion that, among the 425 cases, 55% of the cases occurred before January 1, 2020 were contacted with Southern China seafood wholesale market, but only 8.6% of the cases were related to Southern China seafood wholesale market. Secondly, between January 1st and January 11th, a total of 7 medical workers were infected in Wuhan, and another 8 medical workers were infected during from January 12th to 22nd. That is to say, in the middle of December 2019, interpersonal communication began to happen and continued to spread.

Tian You hospital fever clinic queue up scene. - Chen Hongxia photo

48 hours of Zhong Nanshan

On January 18th, at 5 p.m., 84 years old academician Zhong Nanshan boarded an EMUs bound for Wuhan from Guangzhou. His identity is the head of the high level expert group of the national health and Health Committee.

Zhong Nanshan's trip was very hasty. In the afternoon, he was informed that he wanted to travel to Wuhan. And during the Spring Festival, the train tickets were very scarce. He had to be temporarily arranged in a dining car. At the same time when the bullet train was running to Wuhan, Zhong Nan Shan continued to study materials on the dining car.

In January 19th, after the meeting in Wuhan, Zhong Nanshan hurried to Wuhan Jin Yin Tan Hospital and Wuhan CDC for on-site investigation. Jin Yin Tan Hospital was one of the two key hospitals that focused on the diagnosis of a new type of pneumonia. The Wuhan municipal health and Health Committee announced in January 19th that 17 new confirmed cases were concentrated in Wuhan's golden Yin Tan Hospital and related designated hospitals.

On this day, Zhong Nanshan's photos on the high speed rail were widely disseminated on the Internet. Netizens praised Zhong Nanshan's "great master of the country".

At the same time, under the influence of a series of related reports and news releases, the public and public opinion's concern for pneumonia began to lift quietly. Baidu search index showed that from early January to January 18th, the pneumonia index of Baidu remained at around 9000, and in January 19th, it increased to more than 28000.

This is another beginning.

At 2:42 in the morning of January 20th, the Wuhan Health Committee issued a pneumonia bulletin, which released a one-time number of newly diagnosed cases over the past two days, reaching 59 and 77 respectively.

In January 20th, when he arrived in Beijing to attend the meeting of the National Health Council, Zhong Nanshan interviewed the media and said at the press conference that when the "new crown pneumonia" was handed down to others, Zhong Nan Shan replied that the new coronavirus pneumonia "is sure to be handed down to others".

He mentioned in particular, "around the infection of new coronavirus patients, because of all aspects of nursing, there are 14 medical staff infected."

It was also on this day that the national health and Health Commission issued the Announcement No. 1 in 2020, bringing the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus into the class B infectious diseases stipulated in the infectious disease prevention act of the People's Republic of China, and taking preventive and control measures for class A infectious diseases.

Many provinces and cities released the first confirmed case in the region on this day. In January 20th, the Guangdong provincial health and Health Committee announced the first confirmed case of pneumonia caused by imported new coronavirus in Guangdong. In addition, the national health and Health Commission also confirmed the first confirmed case of pneumonia caused by imported new coronavirus in Shanghai.

The "war epidemic" has ignited smoke since then.

There is no one at the intersection between Hui Ji Road and Jiefang Park Road - Chen Hongxia photo

Beyond Wuhan

Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, Wuhan has become the eye of the whole country. However, around the storm eye, the epidemic in other cities of Hubei province should not be underestimated.

On February 2nd, according to the national Wei Jian Committee, as of 24 February 1, 2020, Hubei reported 9074 cases of new coronavirus pneumonia. In addition to the top 4109 cases in Wuhan, 1002 cases were diagnosed in Huanggang, and second of the second confirmed cases in the country, accounting for 11% of the total number of confirmed cases in the province.

On February 1st, Qiu Lixin, mayor of Huanggang, held a press conference on the prevention and control of new pneumonia in Hubei province. According to the data, about 60-70 people returned to Huanggang before Wuhan closed the city. The huge flow of personnel brought great pressure on prevention and control. "More than 1000 suspected cases will soon be detected in today and tomorrow, and a large proportion of these more than 1000 cases will be confirmed cases, so there may be a substantial increase in confirmed cases in Huanggang today and tomorrow."

In addition, as at 24 hours in February 1, 2020, 749 cases were diagnosed in Xiaogan, 441 in Xiangyang, 384 in Suizhou, and 353 in Yichang. All of them are the cities with the highest number of confirmed diagnoses in Hubei.

Since January 23rd, 17 cities in Hubei have adopted traffic restriction measures. Among them, Wuhan, Yichang, Shiyan, Huangshi, Ezhou and other 14 cities have implemented freeway travel restrictions, while 17 cities and prefectures have declared public transport outages.

However, the spread of the new coronavirus is continuing in Hubei province. As the two most recently exported cities in Wuhan, Huanggang and Xiaogan are all in the hourly high-speed railway area in Wuhan. Big data show that in from January 16th to 22nd, Huanggang and Xiaogan were the two main destinations for floating population in Wuhan, and more than 25% outflow personnel were admitted to Wuhan every day.

The map of Baidu map shows that in January 22nd and 23rd, the first five destinations of Wuhan's foreign migration were Xiaogan, Huanggang, Jingzhou, Xianning and Xiangyang. According to the twenty-first Century economic report, according to the data, Huanggang and Xiaogan will be the two most stressed cities in Hubei province outside Wuhan. The number of cases revealed in two days later confirmed the analysis and prediction of big data.

Even in January 27th, after the "closed city", Huanggang was the most popular destination for Wuhan to move out of the population in Hubei. The proportion was still 18.07%, followed by Xiaogan, with a proportion of 16.77%.

Therefore, these cities around Wuhan have also become the focus areas for epidemic prevention. Zeng Guang, a senior expert group member of the national health and Health Committee and chief epidemiologist of China, believes that the "peak" will be later than Wuhan in Wuhan's surrounding areas, and the strength of all aspects is not as good as that of Wuhan.

For example, there is only one tertiary hospital in Huanggang. In the 13 designated hospitals currently identified, there are also temporary apartments for the elderly.

"As a countable prefecture level city of GDP in Hubei Province, Huanggang is far behind the current epidemic situation in terms of medical supplies. It is already the second most serious city outside Wuhan." A Huanggang citizen regrets to the twenty-first Century economic report reporter. "I hope more people will be able to pay attention to Huanggang."

Although not in the Wuhan metropolitan area, Yichang is still the city with the exact number of cases diagnosed in Hubei.

According to a recent visit by the economic news reporters in twenty-first Century, large shopping malls in downtown Yichang have been suspended for a long time and there are few vehicles on the streets. Before January 22nd, a number of Yichang public institutions received calls from the units and asked to stay in the place of ownership and not to leave. In January 25th, a number of communities in Yichang began to explore the floating population, asking foreign residents to report to the community committees, even if there were no symptoms.

Local high tech Zone, a district property company staff told the twenty-first Century business reporter, although the area has not yet been diagnosed, but it has been semi closed state: foreign personnel need to record, access to check the body temperature, frequent access to the district's internal vehicles can only stop at the door, into the District need comprehensive disinfection.

"There have been confirmed cases in six or seven surrounding areas." The aforementioned staff said. Therefore, strengthening prevention has become an inevitable measure.

In February 2nd, reporters found that the vegetable market that had been opened a few days ago had been closed and various roadblocks were piled up at the door. At the same time, the number of business operators in many cities has also shortened business hours.

"I haven't been out for several days." A Yichang citizen told the twenty-first Century economic news reporter.

The same or even more stringent isolation measures are being staged in other cities. In February 1st, Huanggang issued the "most stringent order in history", requiring every family to assign 1 family members to purchase their daily necessities every two days.

In February 2nd, Huanggang further strengthened the control and management of commercial premises in the urban areas. During the epidemic prevention and control period, it was suspended from other commercial establishments except Shang Chao, fairs (wholesale markets), and pharmacies.

Such measures will also achieve certain results. Wu Haitao, mayor of Xiaogan, said in February 1st that the major reasons for the recent increase in the number of confirmed cases of pneumonia in Xiaogan were the close contacts between Xiaogan and Wuhan, the continuous investigation and improvement of detection efficiency, and the expansion of the scope of detection. "I think the risk of proliferation has been firmly controlled. Generally speaking, it is going down. We have confidence in that. " Wu Haitao pointed out.

Wuhan Tongji Hospital staff are handling medical equipment. - Chen Hongxia photo

"Stay" outside of Wuhan

In January 19th, Xiao family set out from Wuhan for four trips to Sanya, Hainan. Who expected, a trip, but let the traveler have 14 days long predicament.

"I just called Qingdao airlines to make a reservation, and it turned out that we were all busy because of the problem." In February 2nd, Ms. Xiao, who was stranded in Sanya, Hainan, was struggling to get back to Wuhan.

So far, a stay in a hotel in Sanya has reached 14 days. Theoretically, it can go home, but somehow it still can not go and buy the ticket back to Wuhan in February 3rd. "But it has been cancelled, and the high-speed rail has been canceled." they re bought the ticket of Sanya Airlines Wuhan of Qingdao airlines in February 4th. "I hope I can go back tomorrow." Ms. Xiao said,

This is a very painful day for Ms. Xiao. "In order to get home, we call N every day, looking for a path everywhere, but there is no way. Two children can't eat anything every day, and we can't eat anything." Now, even if the current Wuhan is dangerous, we must find a way to go home as soon as possible.

Before the city was sealed in Wuhan, as many as about 5000000 people, like Ms. Xiao, left from Wuhan, excluding the crowd who returned home from Wuhan, and most of the outbound tourists stayed in various places both at home and abroad.

In January 26th, in twenty-first Century, the economic report published the "Wu Han people who wandered outside: how to place them?" In January 30th, Hubei province held a news conference on the prevention and control of pneumonia in a new coronavirus infection. The Secretary of the Hubei provincial Party committee Jiang Chaoliang was studying the plan to recover her stay in Hubei. On the same day, Zhu Tao, director of the aviation standards division of the Civil Aviation Administration, also held a news conference in Beijing. He said that organizing and arranging flights or charter flights would be necessary for passengers to return to China. At present, after 14 days of isolation and detention, the Wuhan people began to return to Wuhan in various ways.

When will the inflection point occur?

In recent days, the trend of new crown pneumonia has become the focus of attention of the whole country. So when does the "turning point" expected by the public come?

Currently, the confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia have been increasing. According to the epidemic data collected by health protection committee in January 10th from twenty-first Century, the growth rate of newly diagnosed, cumulative diagnosis and suspected total, death and cure cases in the whole country is on the rise. The number of newly diagnosed cases in China increased by two peaks in January 18th and January 27th, and the new confirmed cases are rising obviously, and the third peaks have not yet appeared. It is worth noting that although the diagnostic and mortality rates of new crown pneumonia in Wuhan and Huanggang and Xiaogan are significantly higher than those in other cities with confirmed cases, the growth rate of newly diagnosed cases has decreased significantly in the past two days, and the epidemic has been phased.

In January 28th, academician Zhong Nanshan accepted an exclusive interview with Xinhua news agency, and put forward his latest view on the peak of the epidemic. "It is difficult to estimate absolutely when the epidemic reaches its peak. But I think the peak should be reached in a week or 10 days, and will not increase on a large scale.

In January 29th, in response to the question of when people were concerned about the obvious effect of the epidemic control, the chief scientist of the China Center for Disease Control and prevention, responding to the interview with the global times, responded that "there is a latent period in the disease. From January 23rd, it can be estimated to be fifteen in the first month. Now is an opportunity. The first step is to quickly control cases outside Wuhan. We have the determination and the ability to control it. "

According to the experts' conservative projections, the peak of the epidemic will be before or after the Lantern Festival.

However, there is still a cautious wait-and-see attitude towards the above projections. In January 30th, Chen Wei, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of engineering and a researcher at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the Academy of Military Sciences, said in an interview that from now on, the turning point may soon come. "But after the first turning point, will there be second peaks or third peaks?" He said.

In fact, in order to effectively control the source of infection, cut off the way of infection, curb the spread of the epidemic, and promote the arrival of the "turning point" of the epidemic, we have adopted strict isolation measures to fight the outbreak line.

Prior to this, the vice president of the hospital in Wuhan pointed out to the twenty-first Century economic report reporter, "the government must help these people, arrange a hotel in the community health service center and every street to concentrate on the treatment of the patients. It is not allowed to isolate them at home alone. The patients with fever, suspected and close contact should be separated from each other and managed by the government. The government is responsible for the life. Detection of two negative nucleic acids can help them go home and help them find beds for hospitalization, so that the infection source can be cut off in 20 days."

It is gratifying to note that in February 2nd, the new Wuhan coronavirus infection prevention and control command headquarters, the diagnosis of patients were treated centrally, suspected patients concentrated isolation, fever patients, close contacts concentrated observation. That is to say, the "four categories of personnel" should be centrally treated and segregated. It is also required that all districts must complete the centralized treatment and quarantine work of the "four categories of personnel" before 12 noon on February 2nd, and realize the "day Qing day knot" for the newly recruits.

In the next few days, the peak of confirmed cases is coming, but the downfall will inevitably follow. The people of Wuhan are determined to bear the severe pressure to win this arduous battle. (Editor: Li Qingyu)