The prevention and control work strives for progress while maintaining stability, and the prevention and control policy continues to be optimized, taking small steps without stopping.
Almost coincidentally, today (December 2), Chengdu, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Beijing and Chongqing successively issued new travel policies. According to the population of these cities, the travel of more than 100 million people will be more convenient due to the new policy.
From 0:00 to 24:00 on December 1, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported a total of 34772 new cases of local COVID-19 infection. Among them, the total number of new infections in the above five mega cities was 17549, accounting for more than 50% (50.3%) of the total. According to the statistical bulletin of 2021, the permanent population of these five mega cities reached 107.74 million at the end of last year, accounting for 7.6% of the total population; At the end of last year, the total regional GDP reached 13.2 trillion, accounting for 11.54% of the national total.
Recently, Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of the State Council, held two symposiums at the National Health Commission, pointing out that "with the decline of the pathogenicity of the Omicron virus, the popularization of vaccination, and the accumulation of experience in prevention and control, China's epidemic prevention and control is facing new situations and new tasks." "It is an important experience of epidemic prevention and control in China to persist in making progress while maintaining stability, take small steps without stopping, and actively optimize and improve prevention and control policies."
For several consecutive days, the number of new infections per day exceeded 30000, and the rapid growth of large cities became the main feature of this wave of Omikjon epidemic. These mega cities actively adjust their travel policies under the new situation, which is of positive significance for reducing the impact of the epidemic on economic recovery as soon as possible.
Green code is available in multiple places in five cities
Guangzhou's green code has a wider range of traffic. Medical institutions in the city rely on the green code for ordinary outpatient and emergency treatment, and do not need to check nucleic acids. At today's Guangzhou epidemic prevention and control conference, Zhang Yi, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission, said that from now on, ordinary outpatient and emergency medical personnel of all kinds of medical institutions at all levels in the city and district will pass through with green health codes; Newly admitted inpatients and their caregivers shall be admitted with 24-hour nucleic acid negative certificate. [Related reading: No nucleic acid certificate! Green code for ordinary outpatient and emergency treatment of medical institutions in Guangzhou]
In Chengdu, except for special regulations of medical institutions, you can use green code to pass other public places and take public transport such as buses and subways. According to the early news of Sichuan Daily, "Chengdu can enter the public place by scanning the bright code". When citizens enter the medical institution, they need to show the nucleic acid negative certificate according to the regulations of the medical institution. You can enter other public places and take public transportation tools such as buses and subways by showing the green health code, taking temperature measurements and scanning the place code. In addition, according to the relevant information released by the official micro blog of the Chengdu Municipal Health Commission on the evening of the 30th, Chengdu residents only need to show their own health code to enter and exit the community and courtyard, instead of showing the nucleic acid negative certificate. [Related reading: No nucleic acid test certificate will be checked in Chengdu Metro and residential areas]
At the news conference on the 156 COVID-19 prevention and control in Chongqing this afternoon, Li Pan, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission, said that most citizens make nucleic acids according to their own needs. You don't need any formalities to take transportation, just check the Yukang Code; However, entering public places requires 72 hours of nucleic acid negative certificate. For example, going to hospitals and other places currently requires 72 hours of nucleic acid negative certificate. To get in and out of my residential area and courtyard, just show me the green Yukang code. However, if you want to leave the central city, you should also provide a nucleic acid negative certificate within 48 hours.
"Tianjin Metro Operation" was officially announced this afternoon. From now on, we will take Tianjin Rail Transit and cancel the 72 hour nucleic acid certificate inspection. Another part of Tianjin citizens said that they had received news from the grid group of the community that some districts in Tianjin would cancel the 72 hour nucleic acid certificate inspection for open public places, such as food markets, supermarkets, restaurants, and urban transportation vehicles. The 72 hour nucleic acid negative certificate shall be kept for hotels, hotels and scenic spots, and the 48 hour nucleic acid negative certificate shall be kept for cross regional mobile personnel in low-risk areas. [Related reading: The 72 hour nucleic acid certificate inspection in Tianjin metro will be cancelled today, and 690 local infected people were added yesterday]
Beijing also announced this evening that from December 5, buses and subways will not refuse passengers without 48 hour nucleic acid negative certificates to take the bus.
Economic influence of the five major cities
Urban population is the standard to measure the size of a city. The Notice on Adjusting the Standards for City Size Classification issued by the State Council in November 2014 shows that cities are classified into five categories and seven grades based on the urban resident population. Among them, cities between 5 million and 10 million are mega cities; Cities above 10 million are mega cities.
According to the 2021 statistical bulletin, the permanent population of the five cities mentioned above at the end of last year was 32124300 in Chongqing, 2188600 in Beijing, 21192000 in Chengdu, 18810600 in Guangzhou, and 13.73 million in Tianjin. The combined population of the five cities reached 107.74 million. According to the national population of 1412.6 million, the population of the five major cities accounted for 7.6%.
The economic influence of the five mega cities is also very significant. According to the 2021 statistical bulletin, the regional GDP of the five cities at the end of last year was 4026.96 billion yuan in Beijing, 2823.197 billion yuan in Guangzhou, 2789.402 billion yuan in Chongqing, 1991.7 billion yuan in Chengdu and 1569.505 billion yuan in Tianjin. The sum of the five cities reached 132007 billion yuan, while the annual gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021 was 114367 billion yuan, accounting for 11.54% of the total.
In this wave of Omikjon epidemic, the rapid growth of mega cities has become the main feature. From 0:00 to 24:00 on December 1, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported a total of 34772 new cases of local COVID-19 infection. Among them, the total number of new infections in the above five mega cities was 17549, accounting for more than 50% (50.3%) of the total. The citizens of the five mega cities can travel more conveniently, which is obviously of positive significance for accelerating economic recovery.
Recently, many experts put forward new understanding of Omikjon on different occasions.
According to the client side of People's Daily, Professor Chong Yutian, professor of the Department of Infection of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat sen University and the general leader of Guangzhou Huangpu Shelter Hospital, said in an interview with the media, "At present, the academic community has not confirmed that COVID-19 has sequelae, at least there is no evidence that there are sequelae."
A few days ago, Lan Ke, director of the National Key Laboratory of Virology of Wuhan University, said in an interview that the research team led by him found in the experiment of virus infection in vitro that the ability of Omikjon mutant to infect human lung cells (calu-3) was significantly lower than that of the original strain, and the replication efficiency in cells was more than 10 times lower than that of the original strain. It was also found in the mouse infection model that the original strain only needed 25-50 infection dose units to cause the death of mice, while the Omicron strain required more than 2000 infection dose units to cause the death of mice. In addition, the lung virus content of mice infected with Omicron was at least 100 times lower than that of the original strain. He said that the above experimental results can effectively show that the pathogenicity and virulence of COVID-19 Omikjon mutant have been significantly reduced compared with the original COVID-19 strain. This suggests that we should not be too afraid of Omikron. For the general population, under the protection of the vaccine, COVID-19 has become much less harmful to the human body.
Zhao Yubin, the president of Shijiazhuang People's Hospital and the leader of the medical treatment expert group, also said at the recent press conference that although the Aomikerong variant BA. 5.2 is highly infectious, its pathogenicity and virulence are significantly weaker than the previous strain, and its harm to human health is limited. At the same time, he said that COVID-19 needs to be treated scientifically. As the experience of fighting against COVID-19 continues to be enriched, people have more and more in-depth understanding of the characteristics of the virus, and more and more ways to deal with it. Citizens need not panic and worry.
Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of the State Council, pointed out at the symposium on November 30 that with the weakening of the pathogenicity of Omicron virus, the popularization of vaccination and the accumulation of experience in prevention and control, China's epidemic prevention and control is facing new situations and tasks. We should focus on the people, make progress in prevention and control, continue to optimize prevention and control policies, take small steps without stopping, constantly improve diagnosis, detection, treatment, isolation and other measures, strengthen immunization for the whole population, especially the elderly, speed up the preparation of treatment drugs and medical resources, and implement the requirements of "epidemic prevention, economic stability, and safe development".
At the symposium on the 1st, she pointed out once again that it is an important experience for China's epidemic prevention and control to persist in making progress while maintaining stability, take small steps without stopping, and actively optimize and improve prevention and control policies. After nearly three years of epidemic resistance, China's health care and disease control system has withstood the test, with effective diagnosis and treatment technology and drugs, especially traditional Chinese medicine. The complete vaccination rate of the whole population has exceeded 90%, and the health awareness and literacy of the people have been significantly improved. In addition, the pathogenicity of Omicron virus is weakening, creating conditions for further optimization and improvement of prevention and control measures.