Huang Chaolin, vice president of Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, China, said pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus is generally curable, but with further testing, it is expected that the number of new cases will continue to increase. Chen jianixin, vice mayor of Wuhan, said that in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the city has taken a variety of actions, including the implementation of the control of people leaving China.
Since January 14, the city has rapidly installed 35 infrared thermometers at airports, railway stations, long-distance bus stations and passenger terminals, and equipped with more than 300 hand-held infrared thermometers, according to Chen jianixin, quoted by CCTV news client on Sunday afternoon.
Set up temperature detection points and screening points in "three stations and one field" to strengthen the temperature detection of passengers leaving the Han nationality; register the passengers with fever, issue brochures and masks, handle ticket refund or endorsement change procedures free of charge, guide the referral to the medical institutions in the jurisdiction, and make registration reports.
As of yesterday, a total of nearly 300000 body temperature tests were carried out, and 16 fever cases were found, all of which have been excluded. On January 19, Wuhan again deployed the inspection and investigation work for the personnel leaving the country. At the same time, strengthen the "daily disinfection" and "ventilation per shift" of public transport in the city.
In addition, Wuhan has strengthened the management of close contacts and continued to strengthen the management and control of the South China seafood wholesale market after the closure. In the next step, we will continue to increase the monitoring of fever personnel, do a good job in the treatment of severe patients, and minimize the mortality.
Li Gang, director of Wuhan Center for Disease Control and prevention, also pointed out that according to the clinical manifestations of known patients, the medical observation report of close contacts, and the results of previous epidemiological investigation, at present, according to comprehensive judgment, the preliminary impression of this epidemic is that the infectivity of the new coronavirus is not strong, and the possibility of limited human to human transmission is not ruled out, but the risk of sustained human to human transmission is low.
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