The Guangzhou epidemic press conference held on November 30 announced five measures for each district to further optimize prevention and control, proposing that close contacts should in principle be subject to centralized isolation and observation, and close contacts who meet the conditions for home isolation should be quarantined at home; precise epidemic prevention and control measures should be carried out
scientific investigation, and does not use time and space as a criterion for determining close contacts.
Scientifically and accurately delineating high-risk areas and scientifically carrying out nucleic acid testing are basically the reiteration of the "Twenty Measures".
In addition, vaccination should be accelerated.
This is "in order to comprehensively, accurately and completely implement the ninth edition of the prevention and control plan of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council and further optimize the 20 measures for epidemic prevention and control."
Before and after the press conference, all 11 districts in Guangzhou issued notices to adjust risk areas, basically lifting the temporary control areas immediately.
In Haizhu District, where the epidemic is most intense in Guangzhou, a large area in the central control area has been reduced to low risk.
The 20 measures clearly adjust the high, medium and low risk areas into high and low levels, and cancel the determination of medium risk areas.
However, many districts emphasized that "lifting" does not mean "lifting the precautions" and asked residents to continue not to gather.
Red Star News reporters noticed that the same five measures were announced at the Shenzhen epidemic press conference on the same day.
After the press conference, Guangzhou Metro announced that the subway stations and Haizhu trams in Guangzhou that had been suspended due to epidemic prevention and control will gradually resume normal operations, and the Foshan subway stations in the west extension of Line 7 will also resume normal operations.
On November 29, there were 6,995 new local infections of the new coronavirus in Guangzhou.
68 cases were found in society.
The press conference on November 30 stated that the epidemic situation in Guangzhou has been running at a high level recently. The epidemic broke out from a local cluster in Haizhu District, and developed into multi-district and multi-point sporadic and clustered epidemics in Haizhu, Tianhe, Panyu, Baiyun and other areas.
Cross-transmission among various districts in the city is relatively common.
Zhang Zhoubin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Spokesperson of the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that based on the current prevention and control situation and the transmission characteristics of the virus, it is necessary to carry out work earlier, more timely and more accurately in important aspects of epidemic prevention and control.
According to Xinhua News Agency, on November 30, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan held a symposium at the National Health Commission to listen to relevant experts’ opinions and suggestions on optimizing and improving prevention and control measures.
It was pointed out at the meeting that with the weakening of the pathogenicity of Omicron virus, the popularization of vaccination, and the accumulation of prevention and control experience, my country's epidemic prevention and control is facing new situations and new tasks.
Local residents in Guangzhou: Many nucleic acid sites were closed and the fences were removed. At around 1 pm on November 30, Xiao Zheng, who lives in Shiling Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou City, went home with his father after lunch as usual.
Make nucleic acid at nearby nucleic acid points.
Two days ago, the community near her home was sealed off and surrounded by water horses.
When she got off the car, she saw a long queue at the nucleic acid site, and she rushed to the end of the queue.
When he was about to queue up, Xiao Zheng saw a male staff member walking out and saying, "We won't be doing nucleic acid tests now!" When going to other nucleic acid sites, Xiao Zheng either saw staff members packing things, or was stopped by staff members saying, "
We won’t do nucleic acid here.”
After returning home, Xiao Zheng saw the notice announcing the adjustment of risk areas in Huadu District.
The school where her younger brother, who is in the third grade of elementary school, also issued a notice stating that students are taking online classes at home and do not need to undergo daily nucleic acid testing.
Previously, Guangzhou has explored exempting some groups of people from testing, announcing that people who have no social activities, such as the elderly who live at home for a long time, students taking online classes, and those who work from home, do not need to participate in nucleic acid screening if they do not need to go out to reduce the risk of infection in crowds and save money.
The city’s nucleic acid resources.
The measures on November 30 reiterated that the scope of nucleic acid testing must not be expanded, and nucleic acid testing for all employees is generally not carried out according to administrative regions.
Xiao Zheng’s father, Mr. Zheng, recalled to the Red Star News reporter that since last week, almost all the roads in Shiling Town have been blocked, with water horses and iron sheets blocking the intersections.
He and his friends often share information in the group and pay attention to which intersections are still passable.
But when he went out on the afternoon of November 30, Mr. Zheng saw that all the roadblocks had been removed.
However, there are no signs of the surrounding shops resuming operations.
Mr. Zheng also learned that his friend’s wife went to the Children’s Hospital on the morning of November 30 and her health code turned red and she was judged to be a close contact.
The close contact originally needed to go to a centralized quarantine, but my friend's wife received a notice that day that she only needed to be quarantined at home and tested three times in five days to be transferred.
According to the official website of the Guangdong Provincial Government, at the work docking meeting between the Guangdong Working Group on COVID-19 Prevention and Control and the Guangdong Province on the evening of November 27, Wang Weizhong, the Governor of Guangdong Province, expressed support for qualified close contacts to implement home isolation.
In Panyu District, in the past few days, as the epidemic situation has increased, social control measures have been strengthened.
Xiao Chen from Panyu District told Red Star News that his community had no cases and was not under lockdown. However, the community encouraged residents to "not move around unless necessary" and required all employees to undergo daily nucleic acid testing.
Seeing the news that many districts in Guangzhou have lifted temporary control measures, Xiao Chen said he was "very happy, but it was too sudden."
The nucleic acid point at the door of Guangzhou resident Xiao Chen has been closed. Xiao Chen said that at 12:30 noon on November 30, the community property management notified the owner group, "We have been notified by the superior epidemic prevention department to immediately suspend all nucleic acid points.