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Blocking Omicron: Students in many places are infected with the new crown, and schools are easy to become epidemic amplifiers
March 14, 2022 18:31
In the recent epidemics in Shandong, Jilin and other provinces, many students have appeared in the list of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections.
From Laixi No. 7 Middle School in Qingdao, Shandong Province to Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College, and then to No. 1 Middle School in Jiutai District, Changchun City, the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in these schools has attracted widespread attention.
On March 14, virology experts told The Paper that due to the characteristics of the Omicron mutant strain itself, many minors have mild symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus and are not easy to detect. In schools where people gather, students are not only easy to become infected, but also more likely to become "hidden" spreaders, and schools are easy to become amplifiers of the spread of the epidemic.
Omicron spreads on campus, and teachers and students are infected in many places
According to the news released by the Qingdao Health and Health Commission and local officials, on March 4, Laixi City People's Hospital found three Laixi No. 7 middle school students infected with the new crown among the patients in the fever clinic, and all three were confirmed cases. After testing, it was infected with the Omicron variant.
Over the following week, Lacey reported 304 confirmed cases, 217 of whom were students.
According to the briefing of the epidemic prevention and control conference held in Qingdao on March 5, combined with the characteristics of the Omicron variant, judging from the relationship between the 11 cases and the transmission chain, this epidemic has been hidden and spread in the school for a period of time. . In addition, the school is a day school, and students are at greater risk of spreading the infection to their family members and causing community transmission.
At almost the same time, such an epidemic spread scene was staged in the No. 1 Middle School of Jiutai District, Changchun City, Jilin Province. Looking back at the transmission chain of the epidemic in Jiutai No. 1 Middle School, it can be found that the earliest discovered origin of the epidemic in this school came from a confirmed case code-named "Case 4", which was newly added on March 5th and announced by the WeChat account "Changchun Publishing". Among the 7 confirmed cases, case 4 has frequent trips to and from Jiutai No.1 Middle School.
According to the data released by the Changchun Municipal Health Commission's official website, case 4 and the "patient zero" of the current round of Changchun epidemic had an intersection on February 28 at the Chuandufu hot pot restaurant in Jiutai District. Since then, Case 4 has infected 38 confirmed cases over the next 5 days. In the following week, nearly half of the confirmed cases in Changchun were directly related to Case 4.
On March 13, Changchun City held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic for the first time to announce the epidemic situation in Jiutai No. The teacher is a senior high school teacher in Jiutai No.1 Middle School. As of March 11, the last batch of confirmed teachers and students have all been transferred to the relevant hospitals in Changchun City, where they should be cured.
From the report of positive infection on March 4th to the transfer of the last batch of confirmed teachers and students to the hospital on March 11th, there is no official notification on how the teachers and students deal with it.
The clustered COVID-19 outbreak at another university, Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College, has also aroused widespread concern. Peng Mei News combed the information released by Jilin City and found that as of 24:00 on March 11, Jilin City Agricultural Science and Technology College had 91 infected people, including 25 confirmed cases and 66 asymptomatic infections.
As of 8:00 a.m. on March 11, a total of 6,556 students were transferred from Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College. At the same time, 85 leading teachers were arranged to be transferred with the car, realizing the transfer of all students.
Timely testing to find "occult" spreaders in the early stages of the epidemic
The clustered epidemic in the school exposed the loopholes in the prevention and control of the epidemic on the campus. The Paper reviewed the official report and found that Zhao Shubin, the principal of Laixi No. 7 Middle School in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to one-year probation and dismissal from government affairs; the Party Committee of Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College Zhang Lifeng, the secretary, and Zhai Yanhui, the principal of the No. 1 Middle School in Jiutai District, Changchun, have both been removed from their posts.
On the afternoon of March 10, the WeChat public account "Jilin Announcement" announced that the Jilin Provincial Party Committee decided that Yue Qiang, a member of the Party Committee of the Provincial Department of Education and the Governor of Education, concurrently served as Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College; Zhang Lifeng was removed from the post of Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College .
On the evening of March 10, the website of the Qingdao Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision released the "Notice on the Handling of Insufficient Responsibility for Epidemic Prevention and Control in Laixi City", showing that since March 2022, local clusters of epidemics have occurred in Laixi City. In the process of the outbreak and disposal of the epidemic, it was exposed that there are serious shortcomings in the normalized epidemic prevention and control work in Laixi City, especially the lack of vigilance and carelessness about the hidden dangers in schools and other crowded places, and the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures Ineffective, some party members and cadres have the problem of ineffective performance of their duties and dereliction of duty. Zhao Shubin, secretary of the Party branch and principal of Laixi No. 7 Middle School, was sentenced to one-year probation and dismissal from government affairs.
At 18:00 on March 12, according to the news released by Jiutai Financial Media, the party group of the Jiutai District Education Bureau decided to remove Zhai Yanhui from the position of the principal of the No. 1 Middle School in Jiutai District.
Why did Omicron spread so quickly in schools? On March 14, virologist Chang Rongshan said in an interview with The Paper that this should be directly related to Omicron's strong spread among minors.
On March 11, Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Health and Health Commission, said at a press conference in Jilin Province that the spread of the epidemic is hidden, the virus is highly contagious, and the spread is fast. Some infected people are contagious after one day of infection. , the virus has a short passage interval.
Chang Rongshan said that many minors have mild symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus and are not easy to detect. In schools where people gather, students are not only easy to become infected, but also more likely to become "hidden" spreaders, and schools are easy to become amplifiers of the spread of the epidemic.
Therefore, Chang Rongshan suggested that, for cities where positive cases have been found, if more and more infected people are found in several rounds of preliminary screening, and most of them are asymptomatic, then all minors should be tested in a timely manner. It is an early prevention and control method, which can find "hidden" communicators in the early stage of the epidemic.
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March 14, 2022 18:31
In the recent epidemics in Shandong, Jilin and other provinces, many students have appeared in the list of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections.
From Laixi No. 7 Middle School in Qingdao, Shandong Province to Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College, and then to No. 1 Middle School in Jiutai District, Changchun City, the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in these schools has attracted widespread attention.
On March 14, virology experts told The Paper that due to the characteristics of the Omicron mutant strain itself, many minors have mild symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus and are not easy to detect. In schools where people gather, students are not only easy to become infected, but also more likely to become "hidden" spreaders, and schools are easy to become amplifiers of the spread of the epidemic.
Omicron spreads on campus, and teachers and students are infected in many places
According to the news released by the Qingdao Health and Health Commission and local officials, on March 4, Laixi City People's Hospital found three Laixi No. 7 middle school students infected with the new crown among the patients in the fever clinic, and all three were confirmed cases. After testing, it was infected with the Omicron variant.
Over the following week, Lacey reported 304 confirmed cases, 217 of whom were students.
According to the briefing of the epidemic prevention and control conference held in Qingdao on March 5, combined with the characteristics of the Omicron variant, judging from the relationship between the 11 cases and the transmission chain, this epidemic has been hidden and spread in the school for a period of time. . In addition, the school is a day school, and students are at greater risk of spreading the infection to their family members and causing community transmission.
At almost the same time, such an epidemic spread scene was staged in the No. 1 Middle School of Jiutai District, Changchun City, Jilin Province. Looking back at the transmission chain of the epidemic in Jiutai No. 1 Middle School, it can be found that the earliest discovered origin of the epidemic in this school came from a confirmed case code-named "Case 4", which was newly added on March 5th and announced by the WeChat account "Changchun Publishing". Among the 7 confirmed cases, case 4 has frequent trips to and from Jiutai No.1 Middle School.
According to the data released by the Changchun Municipal Health Commission's official website, case 4 and the "patient zero" of the current round of Changchun epidemic had an intersection on February 28 at the Chuandufu hot pot restaurant in Jiutai District. Since then, Case 4 has infected 38 confirmed cases over the next 5 days. In the following week, nearly half of the confirmed cases in Changchun were directly related to Case 4.
On March 13, Changchun City held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic for the first time to announce the epidemic situation in Jiutai No. The teacher is a senior high school teacher in Jiutai No.1 Middle School. As of March 11, the last batch of confirmed teachers and students have all been transferred to the relevant hospitals in Changchun City, where they should be cured.
From the report of positive infection on March 4th to the transfer of the last batch of confirmed teachers and students to the hospital on March 11th, there is no official notification on how the teachers and students deal with it.
The clustered COVID-19 outbreak at another university, Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College, has also aroused widespread concern. Peng Mei News combed the information released by Jilin City and found that as of 24:00 on March 11, Jilin City Agricultural Science and Technology College had 91 infected people, including 25 confirmed cases and 66 asymptomatic infections.
As of 8:00 a.m. on March 11, a total of 6,556 students were transferred from Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College. At the same time, 85 leading teachers were arranged to be transferred with the car, realizing the transfer of all students.
Timely testing to find "occult" spreaders in the early stages of the epidemic
The clustered epidemic in the school exposed the loopholes in the prevention and control of the epidemic on the campus. The Paper reviewed the official report and found that Zhao Shubin, the principal of Laixi No. 7 Middle School in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to one-year probation and dismissal from government affairs; the Party Committee of Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College Zhang Lifeng, the secretary, and Zhai Yanhui, the principal of the No. 1 Middle School in Jiutai District, Changchun, have both been removed from their posts.
On the afternoon of March 10, the WeChat public account "Jilin Announcement" announced that the Jilin Provincial Party Committee decided that Yue Qiang, a member of the Party Committee of the Provincial Department of Education and the Governor of Education, concurrently served as Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College; Zhang Lifeng was removed from the post of Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology College .
On the evening of March 10, the website of the Qingdao Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision released the "Notice on the Handling of Insufficient Responsibility for Epidemic Prevention and Control in Laixi City", showing that since March 2022, local clusters of epidemics have occurred in Laixi City. In the process of the outbreak and disposal of the epidemic, it was exposed that there are serious shortcomings in the normalized epidemic prevention and control work in Laixi City, especially the lack of vigilance and carelessness about the hidden dangers in schools and other crowded places, and the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures Ineffective, some party members and cadres have the problem of ineffective performance of their duties and dereliction of duty. Zhao Shubin, secretary of the Party branch and principal of Laixi No. 7 Middle School, was sentenced to one-year probation and dismissal from government affairs.
At 18:00 on March 12, according to the news released by Jiutai Financial Media, the party group of the Jiutai District Education Bureau decided to remove Zhai Yanhui from the position of the principal of the No. 1 Middle School in Jiutai District.
Why did Omicron spread so quickly in schools? On March 14, virologist Chang Rongshan said in an interview with The Paper that this should be directly related to Omicron's strong spread among minors.
On March 11, Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Health and Health Commission, said at a press conference in Jilin Province that the spread of the epidemic is hidden, the virus is highly contagious, and the spread is fast. Some infected people are contagious after one day of infection. , the virus has a short passage interval.
Chang Rongshan said that many minors have mild symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus and are not easy to detect. In schools where people gather, students are not only easy to become infected, but also more likely to become "hidden" spreaders, and schools are easy to become amplifiers of the spread of the epidemic.
Therefore, Chang Rongshan suggested that, for cities where positive cases have been found, if more and more infected people are found in several rounds of preliminary screening, and most of them are asymptomatic, then all minors should be tested in a timely manner. It is an early prevention and control method, which can find "hidden" communicators in the early stage of the epidemic.
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