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Wuhan to Round Up All Suspected nCoV Patients

According to “Xiakedao,” a social media account that People’s Daily operates, on February 9, 2020, Wuhan stepped up its all-out campaign to round up every single one of the four types of suspected nCov patients.

The four types are: confirmed patients, suspected patients, those in close contact with the former two, and those who have a fever.

Total of 16,739 officials and employees from agencies and enterprises directly affiliated with the city government took part in the Feb 9 roundup. They joined existing residential community work groups to comb through the entire population of around 10 million. These work groups are conducting door-to-door health checks to identify potential carriers who need be isolated.

Sun Chunlan, the female Vice Premier of China’s State Council, who called for a “people’s war” against the fast-spreading virus, gave the order on February 6. Guangming Daily, the State Council’s official newspaper, issued a commentary on February 9 saying that it was of the utmost importance to quarantine these people centrally, so that the spread of the epidemic could be stopped. The commentary also acknowledged the lack of medical supplies in Wuhan, but it claimed that over 11,000 medical staff members have been dispatched to Wuhan from across China.

It is not yet clear what the total number of these four types of people will be. Earlier reports have indicated that there is a devastating environment in the large, new quarantine facilities that were converted from stadiums or exhibition centers.

1. Excerpt in Chinese:

【岛叔说】今天,武汉搞了个大动作
Original 吕德文 侠客岛

今天(2月9日),武汉全市开展了一个大行动:整合市直机关企事业单位党员干部、职工及高校教师,共16739人,下沉到疫情较重的社区,统一编入街道社区工作队,全天候全覆盖排查“四类人员”,确保应收尽收、不漏一人。

在一个1000多万人口的大城市,做这项工作相当不易。但同时,这也是一个必须要做、尽快要做的重要工作,对最终打赢武汉防疫攻坚战具有关键意义。

Source: Tencent QQ, February 9, 2020
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kDP57dP_y5C54S-i9l0Tpw

2.Excerpt in Chinese:

光明日报评论员:应收尽收 不漏一人
2020-02-09 17:16 来源:澎湃新闻·澎湃号·媒体

同时间赛跑,与病魔较量,阻断疫情传播渠道刻不容缓。连日来,中共中央政治局委员、国务院副总理孙春兰率中央指导组贯彻落实习近平总书记重要指示精神,指导督导湖北省、武汉市刻不容缓依法采取果断措施,不折不扣落实“四类人员”分类集中管理措施,真正做到应收尽收、不漏一人。

疫情就是命令,防控就是责任。只有集中力量把重点地区的疫情控制住了,才能从根本上尽快扭转全国疫情蔓延局面;只有把确诊病例、疑似病例、发热病人、密切接触者等“四类人员”的分类集中管理落到实处,才能有效阻断疫情扩散蔓延,才能打好打赢这场突如其来的疫情防控阻击战

面对湖北省特别是武汉市等重点地区医护资源紧缺的现实,中央指导组陆续从全国调集100余支队伍1.1万余名优秀医务人员驰援武汉…

Source: The Paper, February 9, 2020
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_5881671