Sichuan smoothly passed the three peaks of fever clinic, emergency and severe patients, and the epidemic situation in rural areas did not rebound significantly.

"The province has successfully passed the three peaks of fever clinics, emergency departments and critically ill patients. The epidemic situation in rural areas that have received much attention has not rebounded significantly, and the overall epidemic situation in the province is stable and orderly." On the morning of January 28th, on the first working day after the Spring Festival holiday, the Provincial Health and Wellness Committee held a regular meeting of the leading group for epidemic prevention and control and a working meeting of the province’s health and wellness system. Xu Bin, deputy director of the Provincial Health and Wellness Committee, informed the situation at the meeting.

The normal medical order was gradually restored during the Spring Festival.

No new virus sequence was found.

The Epidemic Prevention and Control Group of the Provincial Health and Wellness Committee gave a set of data: the peak of infection in Covid-19, Sichuan Province has passed, and the trend of new infections is obvious. During the Spring Festival, all localities insisted on multi-point monitoring of the epidemic situation in COVID-19, and 110 virus genomes were sequenced, and no new virus sequences were found; No large-scale infection occurred in 3078 civil affairs service institutions in the province.

"During the Spring Festival, the number of positive patients and critically ill patients in the province continued to decline, and there was no obvious treatment of small peaks and insufficient medical resources, and the normal medical order gradually recovered." The Medical Treatment Group of the Provincial Health and Wellness Committee released a preliminary statistical result: from January 1 to January 27, the bed utilization rate of medical institutions above the second level dropped from 96.89% to 60.04%, and the bed utilization rate of ICU dropped from 87.50% to 49.73%. The number of positive patients in the hospital dropped from the highest of more than 80,000 in the previous period to more than 8,000, and the medical order recovered well.

Behind the figures is the continuous optimization of the province’s epidemic prevention and control measures. Taking medical services for key populations as an example, during the Spring Festival, Sichuan provided key populations with "three observations" (observing whether there is "silent hypoxia" performance, observing whether the health condition is abnormal, and observing whether the basic diseases are aggravated), "two tests" (antigen testing, temperature testing) and "one door-to-door" (door-to-door health package distribution) services at least twice a week, and carried out a total of 2.726 million health services; Counties (cities, districts) have set up more than 8,800 "roving diagnosis and treatment teams" in villages and towns, making rounds of clinics in township hospitals, villages with complicated conditions and nursing homes, providing medical treatment and health monitoring services to the masses face to face, and co-ordinating the distribution of medicines and necessary equipment to township hospitals and village clinics. Before and after the Spring Festival, the province’s health system also carried out the activities of "going to the grass-roots level, inspecting the facts, and making a big visit", guiding all localities to establish a daily monitoring and scheduling mechanism for drug reserves, and dynamically adjusting the reserves of drugs and testing reagents. Before the holiday, more than 90,000 finger-clip oximeters were provided free of charge for 44,800 village clinics in the province.

The possibility of a large-scale local epidemic in the near future is low.

But there are still uncertainties.

During the Spring Festival, the epidemic situation was stable and orderly. What do you think of the next step? How to do it?

Zhou Jiushun, an expert on epidemic prevention and control and deputy director of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, judged that the epidemic situation fluctuated at a low level during the Spring Festival, and the possibility of a large-scale local epidemic and the importation of new strains causing a large-scale epidemic was low, but everyone should continue to be the first responsible person for health.

"At present, there are still uncertainties in the epidemic situation in COVID-19. All localities should continue to strengthen epidemic monitoring and situation analysis, and do a good job in prevention and control of key institutions in a targeted manner." Ma Jun, the relevant person in charge of the epidemic prevention and control group of the Provincial Health and Wellness Commission and director of the CDC, said that the next step would be to pay close attention to the introduction and spread of mutant strains in Covid-19, and to strengthen the epidemiological investigation of severe and dead cases, the protection of key populations, vaccination, epidemic prevention and control in rural areas and health services.

Li Bing, the relevant person in charge of the medical treatment team of the Provincial Health and Wellness Commission and director of the Medical Administration Department, said that the specified frequency of not less than 3 times and 2 times per week will continue to be strictly implemented, and full coverage health services will be provided to the key and sub-key populations in the province. Relying on the three-level severe treatment system in provinces, cities and counties and the piecemeal consultation mechanism in four high-level general hospitals such as west china hospital and Provincial People’s Hospital, the sinking and centralized treatment of experts will be strengthened, the treatment of critically ill patients and the co-treatment of multiple diseases will be highlighted, and the normal medical order will continue to be gradually restored.

Xu Bin said that the next step will be to focus on key places, key populations and key institutions to ensure that medical services, drug equipment, protective materials, vaccination and referral mechanisms are in place; Continue to strengthen the monitoring of new mutant strains in Covid-19, pay special attention to the monitoring of mutation imported from abroad in Covid-19, and provide decision-making basis for early epidemic warning; Strengthen the construction of compound, integrated and leading professional talents in general hospitals and disease control institutions. (Reporter Wei Feng)