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Despite declining numbers of confirmed cases being reported out of China over the past 3 days, and some `happy talk' that China might be getting their COVID-19 outbreak under control, we continue to see increasingly tough epidemic enforcement measures being announced by Chinese authorities.
Earlier today, in Huanggang City Government Offers 500 Yuan Reward For Fever Patients, we saw an edict that established what amounts to a `bounty' on anyone with a fever, and strict punishment for anyone who doesn't turn themselves in for having a fever or respiratory symptoms.Today, the National Health Commision website, we find a remarkable document outlining 15 steps to be taken in Hubei Province - the epicenter of the outbreak - that appears to double-down on the week's long lockdown that province has been under.
Stating that the epidemic has entered the `most challenging critical stage', this 15-part plan further restricts the movement of people and vehicles, shuts down practically all non-essential businesses and public places, and prohibits the use of most private vehicles.
People who want to purchase any type of OTC cold or flu medicine must fill out forms with full contact information, local communities must increase fever screening, and strict penalties are promised for anyone to tries to evade detection.
There are also several not-so-veiled warnings included for local party members and officials who might be tempted to shirk their duties, cover up local problems, fail to enforce regulations, or (by implication) fail in their efforts to contain this epidemic - that they will be `resolutely and seriously dealt with'.
Failure, at least for local officials, appears to carry a heavy price.None of this sounds like a province on the verge of getting their epidemic under control. While lengthy, this entire document is well worth perusing.
(translated)
[Hubei] Announcement of the People's Government of Hubei Province on Further Strengthening the Prevention and Control of the Epidemic Situation of the New Crown Pneumonia
Release Time: 2020-02-16
At present, the prevention and control of the epidemic situation in the whole Province has entered the most challenging critical stage, the situation of the epidemic situation is still severe, and in order to effectively cut off the source of infection, block the channels of transmission, and curb the spread and spread of the epidemic situation, in accordance with the Emergency Response Law of the People's Republic of China, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the Public Security Administration Punishments Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulation on Responding to Public Health Emergencies, the Decision of the Standing Committee of Hubei Province on Providing Powerful Legal Guarantee for Winning the Battle against the Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Epidemic Situation, the Prevention and the Prevention and Prevention of Pneumonia and the relevant laws and regulations, and the provisions, and the provisions, and the provisions of the relevant laws and the provisions, the provisions, the relevant laws and the provisions, the provisions, the relevant
I. Strengthening territorial prevention and control responsibilities.
All cities (prefectures, directly administered cities, Shennongjia forest areas), counties (cities, districts), towns (sub-districts) shall further compress the compaction responsibilities, make overall planning and integration of forces, and strengthen community (village) joint prevention and joint control and mass prevention and joint control. Communities (villages) shall, in light of the actual circumstances, improve the interaction mechanisms such as door-to-door contact, personnel verification and community management.
2. Strengthening the closed management of urban and rural communities (villages).
All village groups, communities, communities and residential areas in urban and rural areas shall be subject to the strictest closed management for 24 hours.
Foreign vehicles shall be strictly controlled, and they shall not enter or exit unless necessary. strictly control the non-local personnel; It shall be strictly controlled that the residents go out, and drugs and necessary living things may be purchased and distributed in a centralized way; strictly manage stores, regulate temperature testing, and control the flow of people; The illegal acts shall be strictly controlled, and compulsory measures shall be taken according to law for those who do not comply with the relevant provisions on the response to Grade I major public health emergencies.
3. Strengthening vehicle passage control.
We shall comprehensively strengthen traffic control in all cities (prefectures, directly administered cities, and Shennongjia forest areas), and take temporary traffic control measures to reduce the travel of motor vehicles. Except for anti-epidemic vehicles, vehicles for official use, public transport, vehicles for medical and health workers, vehicles for transportation of life necessities, and special vehicles such as rescue vehicles, fire fighting, emergency rescue, environmental sanitation, police cars, etc., all other vehicles shall be prohibited from passing.
4. Strengthening the administration of key regions.
All non-essential public places shall be closed, and all mass activities shall be stopped. Supermarkets, pharmacies and other necessary open places shall rationally arrange business hours, strictly control the flow of people, and do a good job in guiding people and detecting body temperature. A drug purchase registration system shall be implemented in retail drug stores.
Persons who purchase drugs such as cold drugs, fever cough drugs, and antipyretics must truthfully fill in the information on their names, contact information, identity card numbers, addresses, body temperature, etc., and the information must be completely entered into the computer system to purchase the drugs and strengthen risk control. Community (village), community, residential area, residential area, building, work place and other basic-level units with diagnosed (including clinical diagnosis) cases of new Coronary Pneumonia shall be firmly isolated for 14 days.
5. Strengthening comprehensive health checks for residents.
We shall carry out the dynamic network-pulling and rolling screening for all residents, so as to ensure that "there is no missing household, no falling person, and one day" and ensure full coverage and no blind area. In order to strengthen the epidemiological investigation of the "four categories of persons", the units and individuals involved must cooperate unconditionally according to law, and shall not conceal the history of medical diseases or the history of close contact, nor may they evade the observation of isolated medicine.
If it refuses to cooperate, the public security organ shall take compulsory measures according to law. Residents who have fever, cough or other symptoms must report to the community (village) at the first time. The community (village) shall carefully check the health information reported by the fever patients, and transfer the confirmed fever patients to the fever clinic nearby for treatment.
6. Strengthening the management and services of key groups.
All close contacts with all suspected or diagnosed (including clinical diagnosis) cases of New Coronary Pneumonia and fever patients who cannot be explicitly excluded from New Coronary Pneumonia must be placed in a single person at the centralized isolated point for observation, and shall not be placed in isolation at home. Townships (sub-districts) shall set up special classes to do a good job in the medical treatment, living services, health management, psychological counseling, humane care and other work of the isolated persons.
It is necessary to strengthen the allocation of police force, maintain the order of diagnosis and treatment, and prevent secondary events. Where the construction of the separation point is not in place and the raising of beds is not in place, thus causing the "four categories of personnel" to be unable to be collected, treated and isolated in a timely manner, the secondary incidents caused by the failure to provide adequate safeguards for the medical personnel, living materials, safety protection, etc. of the separation point shall be seriously dealt with. Communities (villages) shall strengthen their care for the elderly, the young and the weak, the family members of medical personnel and other groups, and do a good job in providing service guarantee.
7. Strengthening the guarantee of the living necessities of residents.
All localities shall adapt measures to local conditions, adopt various flexible methods, and guarantee the supply of materials necessary for the daily life of the people after closed management. We shall expand community distribution services, vigorously develop e-commerce, strengthen the guarantee for connection between supply and marketing, carry out "e-commerce + chain distribution", promote non-contact distribution services, promote on line group purchase in residential areas (village groups), and purchase by wrong means.
8. Strengthening the guarantee of medical protection materials.
All the products of the key medical and health care material production enterprises throughout the province shall be uniformly distributed by the provincial people's government. We will give full support to key medical care and material production enterprises in expanding their production capacity, and support the transformation of technology into production by qualified enterprises. We shall strengthen the protection of medical and protective materials for frontline staff members in the prevention and control of epidemic situation.
9. Strengthening environmental sanitation management.
We shall implement the system of environmental disinfection, and conduct regular ventilation and preventive disinfection in key places. All the consumer wastes and medical wastes of the communities (villages), hospitals and isolation sites must be collected and disposed of in a classified manner, so as to effectively clean up the daily production.
10. Strengthening the responsibilities of entities.
The enterprise shall be subject to the system of enterprise's return for rehabilitation, and the enterprise shall not resume its production without the approval of the headquarters for prevention and control of epidemic situation at the county (city, district) level. The enterprises that have been approved to resume their operations and to resume their operations shall comprehensively implement the measures for the prevention and control of epidemic situation. The offices, parks, buildings, and enterprises for the resumption of production and rehabilitation of state organs and public institutions shall strengthen the monitoring of body temperature, carefully screen the heat-generating personnel, and report any abnormality in a timely manner.
11. Strengthening the work responsibilities of party members and cadres in communities (villages) that have been sunk.
Party and government organs and party members of public institutions must go to the village groups and communities nearby to participate in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation, and accept the management and dispatch of towns (sub-districts). Those who do not report to the department on their own initiative or do not obey the deployment shall be resolutely and seriously dealt with, and the major persons in charge of the units to which they belong shall be held accountable. All entities shall properly manage their own people, keep an eye on their own departments, establish a list of the circumstances of the villages and communities where their party-member cadres sink, and report it to the headquarters for prevention and control of epidemic situation at all levels for archival purposes.
12. Strengthening individual legal responsibilities.
All residents shall consciously abide by all provisions on the prevention and control of epidemic situation. They shall strictly abide by the provisions on wearing face masks in public places, and shall not go out unless necessary, nor participate in gatherings and collective activities. Where any entity violates the Class I response and management measures for major public health emergencies and impedes the prevention and control of epidemic situation, the public security organ shall take compulsory measures according to law.
13. Strengthening demonstration and driving.
All Party members and cadres, deputies to the people's congresses at all levels and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee shall play a leading role in encouraging family members and neighborhood neighbors to consciously abide by all provisions on the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. All Party-member cadres and residents must obey unified leadership and control and actively participate in the work of epidemic prevention.
14. Strengthening work discipline.
For those who fail to undertake the task of preventing and controlling the epidemic situation, fail to take any action or act slowly, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, conduct strict investigation and hold accountable those who fail to comply with the unified dispatching and affect the implementation of the measures for preventing and controlling the epidemic situation. If serious consequences are caused, the accountability system shall be "raised to a higher level".
15. Strengthening supervision over complaints.
All regions shall make known to the general public the hotline for the prevention and control of local epidemic situation and the on line service window, accept the consultation, complaint, tip-off and help from the general public, respond to the complaints in a timely manner, and report the handling results. We issued a policy of rewarding tip-offs, and the public could report such issues as the failure to report fever patients in a timely manner, the failure to effectively isolate the "four categories of personnel" from receiving and treating them, and the failure to take measures to prevent and control the epidemic situation through the "12345" hotline, the Hubei Office of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the APP epidemic prevention and control special zone, and other channels.
We hope that the broad masses of the people will continue to understand, cooperate with and actively participate in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation, support the frontline personnel in carrying out their work, stand by and help each other, work together in the same boat, and overcome the current difficulties, so as to resolutely win the people's war, the overall war, and the resistance war against the epidemic situation throughout the province.
