After the "unblocking" of GuangzhouAfter the unblocking of Guangzhou

At about 3 pm on November 30, Wu Juan, who lives in Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, saw for the first time in a long time that there were more cars on the avenue outside the community. For more than a month, except for going downstairs to do nucleic acid tests, she has not been on the streets for a long time.

Just one hour ago that day, at the earlier Guangzhou City Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference, Guangzhou City announced that it would optimize and improve epidemic prevention and control measures and comprehensively, accurately and completely implement the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism. In the spirit of the ninth version of the prevention and control plan and the further optimization of the "Twenty Measures" requirements for epidemic prevention and control, some areas in Guangzhou issued notices to lift the temporary epidemic prevention and control areas.

Although Haizhu District is the "eye of the storm" in this round of Guangzhou's epidemic, many communities in non-high-risk areas, including Wu Juan's community, were unblocked on the same day. In addition, the new epidemic prevention and control policy has also brought about many immediate and visible changes. Close contacts who meet the conditions for home quarantine have turned back on their way to quarantine. Many regions and streets have canceled nucleic acid testing points. Guangdong citizens’ The code changes directly from the red code to the green code.

Guangzhou’s move was regarded by public opinion as a big step forward. Since the issuance of the "Twenty Articles", many places have been actively promoting more scientific and precise epidemic prevention measures. As the provincial capital city, Guangzhou’s approach will undoubtedly bring a “demonstration” effect to other regions in Guangdong Province.

On December 1, citizens took the subway at Lujiang Subway Station in Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. As multiple districts in Guangzhou have successively issued notices on epidemic prevention and control measures, lifted temporary control measures in relevant areas, and all walks of life have resumed work and production in an orderly manner, people's lives have become increasingly "smoky". Photo by China News Service reporter Chen Ji_

The lockdown was lifted

On the last day of November, there were almost no signs. Li Xiao, who lives near Ruibao Street in Haizhu District, discovered that the community was suddenly lifted. Closed. Many citizens have also noticed that many epidemic prevention control checkpoints and water barriers that originally "guarded" the streets have been evacuated or removed. In the afternoon of the same day, Haizhu District issued a notice stating that the entire district will be managed as a low-risk area, and close contacts who meet the conditions for home isolation will be quarantined at home.

Since mid-to-late October, the epidemic has broken out in many places in Guangzhou, with Haizhu District being the main outbreak site. After the first positive case was discovered on October 23, Haizhu District quickly adopted strict epidemic prevention and control measures. On October 30, all non-essential movements and activities in Haizhu District will be stopped, and non-urban support enterprises will cease operations.

There were no cases in Li Xiao’s community at first, but it was still included in the area where epidemic prevention and control measures were strengthened. In addition to daily nucleic acid tests, in early November, private cars were not allowed to move out of the way, and only one person from each household could enter and exit the community with a pass. However, the epidemic was not isolated. "After more than a week of isolation, cases appeared," Li Xiao said.

On November 30, Guangzhou held its 139th press conference on epidemic prevention and control this year. In order to comprehensively, accurately and completely implement the ninth version of the prevention and control plan of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council and further optimize the "Twenty Measures" measures for epidemic prevention and control, and to do a scientific and accurate job in prevention and control, Guangzhou City has implemented the current epidemic prevention and control situation based on the current epidemic prevention and control situation. , after comprehensive research and judgment, we optimized and improved epidemic prevention and control measures.

It is mentioned that those who meet the conditions for unblocking must be unblocked in a timely manner, and the management of blockade control must be quick to block and unblock, and all cases must be unblocked. The scope of screening for close contacts must not be expanded arbitrarily, and time and space companionship should not be used as the criterion for determining close contacts. Do a good job in isolation management of close contacts. In principle, close contacts are subject to centralized isolation and observation, and close contacts who meet the conditions for home isolation are subject to home isolation.

Subsequently, many districts in Guangzhou also issued notices to optimize and improve epidemic prevention and control measures. For example, Panyu District and Liwan District immediately lifted all temporary control areas.

“The nucleic acid sites around the community have been withdrawn, there are more cars on the road, and the surrounding shops are also ready to open.” Li Xiao said.

On the same day, the Guangzhou Bridge connecting Yuexiu District and Haizhu District resumed traffic. The Guangzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau announced that from now on, Guangzhou's subways and buses will gradually resume operations in an orderly manner. When a staff member of the Transportation Bureau responded to a netizen's question about whether to check nucleic acid, they replied that "just show the green code."

The traffic police removed the water horse at the control boundary. Photo by First Financial reporter Wu Mianqiang

The code is green

On the night when the new regulations were released, Xu, who lives in Baiyun District, Guangzhou Fei found that his Yuekang code changed from red to green.

One day ago, Xu Fei was asked to stay home for five days due to an abnormal test result at the nucleic acid testing site he went to, although the abnormality was not in Xu Fei's care. Now he can go to work.

China News Weekly noticed that an office building property in Tianhe District notified that to enter the premises, you only need to scan the premises code and green code. There are also many supermarkets whose business notices do not mention the need for nucleic acid tests. On December 1, China News Weekly consulted a number of movie theaters located in Tianhe District, Haizhu District, and Liwan District. Some also checked the 48-hour nucleic acid, and some only checked the green code.

In Shipai Village, Tianhe District, the Guangdong Health Code of Fu Min, a student from a certain university, also changed to green. Because she was judged to be a sub-close contact after leaving school, she was required to get tested twice in three days. However, because she did not take nucleic acid tests the next day, she was given a yellow code. Since the beginning of this round of epidemic, the school has adopted strict entry and exit control measures. "Leaving the school requires approval from counselors, tutors, and deans." Fu Min said that the campus is surrounded by urban villages, and many cases have appeared.

China News Weekly noticed that as early as November 21, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education urgently launched the work of returning students from universities, secondary vocational schools and technical colleges in Haizhu District. On November 26, the first batch of 498 students from the South Campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus in Haizhu District took a special bus to leave the school and return home.

In order to avoid campus clusters of epidemics, universities in many districts of Guangzhou have also gradually arranged for students to return home. Starting from November 28, Fu Min's school district has conducted a survey on students' willingness to return home. Starting from November 30, the school will adjust all postgraduate courses that took the form of offline classroom teaching, online teaching and offline classroom teaching in the early part of this semester to online teaching.

“The later you leave, the more complicated it will be.” Fu Min’s hometown is in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. She started to grab train tickets on November 29, but all trains were sold out. After the new prevention and control policy was released, she became entangled again. "It will be more efficient to study if you stay in school."

China News Weekly learned from an administrator at a university in Panyu University Town that his unit still adopts a voluntary application method for students to return home. Returning students should ensure that they comply with the epidemic situation in the place of departure and the place of acceptance. Prevention and control requirements, etc. It is understood that the school's normal semester ends in early January. Since most teachers live in urban areas, due to the impact of this round of epidemic, recent courses have also been converted to online formats.

Data shows that after announcements were issued in some areas of Guangzhou, a large number of tourists logged on to the Tongcheng travel platform to search for travel products departing from Guangzhou. As of 15:00 that day, the search volume for Guangzhou outbound air tickets increased four times compared with the same period the day before, and the number of air ticket orders increased 126% compared with the previous day. Search volume for train tickets departing from Guangzhou increased by more than 300%.

Within half an hour after the news was released, the search volume for the "Guangzhou" keyword on Ctrip's platform surged by more than 300%; the number of views on Guangzhou's tickets and surrounding tour business portals increased by 255% and 255% respectively. 156%.

Tongcheng travel data shows that in the past week, the destinations with the highest number of tickets issued from Guangzhou were Chengdu, Hangzhou, Kunming, Changchun and Harbin. The destinations with the highest number of train tickets issued from Guangzhou are Shenzhen, Yueyang, Dongguan, Wuhan and Zhanjiang.

Recently, news of passengers stranded outside Guangzhou South Railway Station has attracted attention. Multiple videos showed luggage and beds strewn everywhere inside and outside the station. It is reported that many of them are migrant workers and college students who have returned to their hometowns.

On the afternoon of November 30, the Guangzhou Railway Department announced that currently, all major railway stations in Guangzhou are operating normally, and no stations have been closed or stopped operating. Passengers who need to travel can enter the station and take the bus normally after holding a negative nucleic acid certificate within 48 hours, a green health code, and after the temperature measurement is normal.

On the other hand, many places still adopt relatively strict control measures for people traveling from Guangzhou. From Guangzhou to Shenzhen, strict home health monitoring is required for 3 days, "3 tests in 3 days". After 3 days and 4 days, the place of residence and the place of work will be on the same line. No dinners, parties, or going to crowded places. On the evening of November 30, the Meizhou Municipal Government announced that students and parents coming to Meizhou from Guangzhou must report through the mini program before arriving in Meizhou, and implement "three days of strict home health monitoring + four days of self-health monitoring" upon arrival.

New changes

A building in a community in Haizhu District where Wu Juan is located was classified as a high-risk area because of a positive case 4 days ago. Because the community is surrounded by urban villages, almost all of which have outbreaks of cluster epidemics, she has been staying at home since October 23.

On December 1, in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, a delivery boy scanned the QR code to enter the Teem Mall. Many supermarkets in Tianhe, Guangzhou have issued notices that they need to scan the venue code and show the green health code when entering and exiting. Some shopping malls will no longer check the negative 48-hour nucleic acid test certificate. Photo by China News Service reporter Chen Chuhong

“It turned out to be 5+3, and we don’t know when the lockdown will be lifted.” On the evening of November 30, Wu Juan told China News Weekly. However, she said she could clearly feel the changes brought about by the prevention and control measures. There have been cases in the community before. At that time, all residents in the building except those who were positive were taken to the hotel for quarantine. After cases appeared in the community this time, everyone except those who were positive were quarantined at home.

Pan Zerong, the head of operations of the Yazhi Business Department of Meihao Liquor Management, feels even more clearly. "A group of close contacts got off the bus in the afternoon and walked to the hotel gate. As a result, the latest government notice suddenly came out. These people got back on the bus and were taken home for isolation," Pan Zerong told China News Weekly on November 30. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they had been notified that close contacts did not need to be quarantined in a centralized manner, and the entire policy had changed a lot.

The business manager of a city-wide delivery company in Guangzhou told China News Weekly that at the peak of its platform, there were about 2,000 daily active riders, and about 500 to 600 riders were affected by this round of epidemic. Once the containment zone is lifted, they can deliver to a wider area.

“Before unblocking, we will conduct an online health review for riders, and those who run every day must upload a 24-hour green code certificate.” However, in his view, he still cannot be careless. At present, the platform will still enable the health review function and will also observe changes in epidemic policies in real time.

On the afternoon of November 30, Yang Jing, a resident of Haizhu District, received a call from the neighborhood committee, "Mobilizing me to go to the makeshift hospital, saying it was the last batch." In her opinion, the "last batch" is probably a new change.

All three members of Yang Jing’s family have been diagnosed. Currently, her husband and son are sent to the hospital for isolation treatment. "The doctor said they don't need to take medicine and they will be over with just a shoulder." By the third day, her son was able to attend online classes normally. Because she suffered from basic heart disease, Yang Jing requested to be isolated and treated in a regular hospital. Since the hospital could not arrange it, she chose to stay at home alone.

What can be seen by more people is that catering service units in many districts in Guangzhou, including Haizhu District, Liwan District and other districts, have gradually resumed dine-in services. In addition, semi-closed places such as Internet cafes, entertainment venues, bars, theaters, and mahjong parlors in Conghua District have also resumed business.

Since the beginning of this round of epidemic, Li Xiang, who has restaurants in many districts of Guangzhou, has been closed. Although he saw news of the resumption of dine-in dining in the news, he said that the "restart" of the catering industry will take a certain amount of time, as funds must be raised and raw materials must be repurchased.

“Fortunately, we can dine in,” Pan Zerong revealed. They operate 10 hotels in Guangzhou, and their revenue this year can be described as “running out of ammunition and food.” He said that the relevant notice shows that dine-in dining can resume from 12pm on November 30. The staff are currently preparing for the restaurant to go online. The buffet restaurant is expected to be opened this Saturday. The most urgent thing right now is to tell consumers that they can enter the store. .

“People in the industry are very anxious, and everyone is eager to survive.” Pan Zerong observed in the circle of friends that some of his colleagues who opened bars have distributed promotional posters, starting after 12 o’clock on the night of November 30 Open for business. Guangzhou’s vitality is back.

Author: Chen Weijing