The Chinese province with the highest outbreak of coronavirus rushes to build hospitals: “The situation is serious”

The northeastern Chinese province of Jilin, which registered this Monday more than 3,000 new cases of local contagion of coronavirusfaces a “serious and complicated situation” while accelerating the construction of hospitals for the isolation of positives.

The deputy director of the Health Commission of JilinZhang Li stated at a press conference that A total of five provisional hospitals with a capacity for 22,880 beds have already been built in the province and others are under constructionaccording to the state newspaper Global Times.

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The 26 million inhabitants of Jilin province, which borders Russia and North Korea, are banned from leaving the region, a guideline that was not applied in China since residents of the central province of Hubei, whose capital is Wuhan, were banned from leaving during the first outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020.

According to China’s still-current “zero dynamic covid” policy, all positive cases must be isolated in facilities set up for this purpose, which adds pressure to the hospital system in places where there are outbreaks.

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Zhang announced “urgent unconventional measures” to carry out mass PCR testing campaigns, especially in the most affected places: the capital (Changchun) and Jilin, which together have more than thirteen million inhabitants and are the main cities of the province.

Residents queue up to undergo Covid-19 coronavirus tests in Jilin, on March 15, 2022. (STR/AFP)

The provincial military authorities have mobilized 7,000 soldiers to collaborate in the work against the pandemic, according to local media.

Despite the seriousness of the situation, the provincial governor, Han Jun, promised to cut the chain of “social contagion” within a week.

The concept of “zero social contagions”, Authorities from different places dealing with outbreaks in China recently clarified, it refers to the fact that new covid infections are only registered in the isolation facilities for infected people and their contacts.

the province of Jilin He has purged at least three officials, including the mayor of the city of Jilin, for neglecting to stem the outbreak.

According to official data, there are Jilin 6,380 active cases of covid and Changchun and Jilin are totally or partially confined.

Since the start of the pandemic, 120,504 people have been infected in the country, among whom 103,884 have managed to heal and 4,636 have died, according to official accounts of China.

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Source: Elcomercio