The northeastern Chinese province of Jilin, which registered more than 3,000 new cases of local covid contagion on Monday, is facing a “serious and complicated situation” while accelerating the construction of hospitals for the isolation of positives.
The deputy director of the Jilin Health Commission, Zhang Li, declared at a press conference that a total of five provisional hospitals with a capacity for 22,880 beds have already been built in the province and others are under construction, according to the state newspaper. GlobalTimes.
The 26 million inhabitants of the province of Jilin, which borders Russia and North Korea, are banned from leaving the region, a guideline that has not been applied in China since the inhabitants of the central province of Hubei were prohibited from leaving, whose capital is Wuhan, during the first outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020.
According to China’s still-current “zero dynamic covid” policy, all positive cases must be isolated in facilities set up for this purpose, which adds pressure to the hospital system in places where there are outbreaks.
Zhang announced “unconventional emergency measures” to carry out massive PCR testing campaigns, especially in the most affected places: the capital (Changchun) and Jilin, which together have more than thirteen million inhabitants and are the main cities. from the province.
The provincial military authorities have mobilized 7,000 soldiers to collaborate in the work against the pandemic, according to local media.
Despite the seriousness of the situation, the provincial governor, Han Jun, promised to cut the chain of “social contagion” within a week.
The concept of “zero social contagion”, authorities from different places dealing with outbreaks in China recently clarified, refers to the fact that new covid infections are only registered in the isolation facilities for infected people and their contacts.
Jilin province has purged at least three officials, including the mayor of Jilin city, for neglecting to stem the outbreak.
According to official data, there are 6,380 active cases of covid in Jilin and Changchun and Jilin are fully or partially confined.
Since the start of the pandemic, 120,504 people have been infected in the country, among whom 103,884 have managed to heal and 4,636 have died, according to official Chinese accounts. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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