Wuhan government announced within 3 days will complete the task of tracing, evaluating and quarantining all people infected with corona virus.

Wang Zhonglin, new secretary of the Wuhan Party Committee, where the onset of corona pneumonia virus outbreaks (Covid-19), was issued on February 16 to conduct a three-day campaign across the city to ensure that Isolate all nCoV infections.

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Health worker massages a person with nCoV symptoms at a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on February 17. Photo: AFP

The campaign aims at 5 goals: all suspected nCoV infections are tested for nucleic acid, isolate all nCoV-infected patients, check all fever patients, isolate anyone who has ever been in close contact with the disease To ensure that all residential areas carry out the 24-hour blockade. Big data systems and artificial intelligence will be used to support the monitoring of this campaign.

In a press conference last week, former Wuhan Secretary Ma Quoc Cuong said 10.59 million residents of 4.21 million households in the city had undergone a medical examination, which is equivalent to the screening rate one after another. is 99% and 98.6%. Mr. Ma also pledged to February 11, all suspected corona virus infections will be checked.

However, many local people expressed doubts about this statement because they had never met any supervisor in the residential area. Some people said they could not be hospitalized even after being confirmed to have Covid-19.

Peng Zhiyong, a doctor at the Central South Hospital in Wuhan, explained that the city had a hard time counting the number of patients or suspected cases of infection with nCoV due to a lack of medical resources. An anonymous source said that after the new government order was issued, a number of volunteers were mobilized, making it easier to contact the people.

Although the number of people with Covid-19 outside Hubei province has decreased for 13 consecutive days, the situation in the epidemic is still serious. Local officials today reported an additional 1,807 cases were detected, bringing the total number of nCoV infections in Hubei province to 59,989 and the number of deaths was 1,789. Wuhan City alone recorded 1,600 new infections and 72 deaths.

The Hubei government on February 16 tightened the blockade. Unnecessary facilities are prohibited, all entertainment venues are closed, all group activities are suspended. About 200,000 rural communities were blocked, leaving only a single entrance and always being protected. Similar restrictions apply to urban communities.