The “smallest” medium-risk area! What kind of scientific spirit is demonstrated behind the 20-square-meter milk tea shop?

Recently, a 20-square-meter milk tea shop in Shanghai became a hot topic because it became the "smallest" medium-risk area.

Source: CCTV News Client

January 13

Shanghai reports 2 new local confirmed cases

3 local asymptomatic cases

5 people are the same as those reported on January 11

Related to asymptomatic infections imported from abroad

All were found in routine nucleic acid testing screening

Three of them were service staff of the same milk tea shop

That night

According to the relevant requirements of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council

Shanghai Municipal COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Work

The Leading Group Office has decided

The confirmed case's workplace

No. 228, Yuyuan Road, Jing'an Temple Street, Jing'an District

Listed as medium-risk area

The risk level of other areas in Shanghai remains unchanged

Why is it divided like this?

The Shanghai Municipal COVID-19 Prevention and Control Leading Group Office said that the decision was made because the five infected people were all related to an imported case in Shanghai on January 11, and the same transmission chain was confirmed, and all were found in screening tests during the isolation and control period. At the same time, since all close contacts were negative, a total of 2,830 people have also been isolated and controlled.

Therefore, Shanghai believes that the risks of these five local coronavirus infections are generally controllable.

Disneyland set off fireworks before, and now there is the smallest medium-risk area. Many people are praising Shanghai's refined epidemic prevention and humanistic care. Some comments said that this is the smallest epidemic area in the world, and it is not an exaggeration to apply for the Guinness record.

Accurately trace the source and witness the warmth of anti-epidemic efforts

Only store No. 228 was designated, without affecting the surrounding pharmacies, small shops, and Shanghai Jing'an Temple subway station, which is only 238 meters away, in order to minimize the impact of the epidemic on people's daily lives. It is not difficult to imagine that if the scope of the risk area is expanded outward, the impact on people's production and life may increase exponentially. Not only do people in the closed area need to be isolated in a centralized manner or at home, but patrols, door-to-door services, environmental disinfection, garbage removal, multiple rounds of nucleic acid testing, and daily necessities and medical care... The implementation of a series of prevention and control plans requires a large amount of manpower and material resources.

At the same time, even if it is only 20 square meters, it is also based on the principle of "early, small, strict and practical" epidemic prevention, tightening the string of epidemic prevention from both physical space and citizens' mentality. After all, after two years of fighting the epidemic, the enemy we face is still cunning and terrifying, and the difficult test of epidemic prevention and control has not passed.

On the 14th, the store issued a response:

“The virus can be isolated.

But warmth cannot be isolated.”

In addition, the store also stated that

From January 5 to January 11 before the store closes

Customers who shop at the Jing'an Temple store will receive

The CDC's call required quarantine

You may get a call in the middle of the night.

Apologies for this

Many netizens said:

Witness the temperature in speed!

What kind of scientific spirit is conveyed behind this?

Behind this decision are two commendable qualities of Shanghai's epidemic prevention work. First, the epidemiological investigation was done well, and thousands of close contacts were quickly found, tested, and isolated, and a safe and secure decision was made based on all negative results. Second, in the presence of strong scientific evidence, the city dared to make judgments based on facts and delineated the "minimum risk zone" without making sweeping generalizations or a one-size-fits-all approach.

Fighting the epidemic is a protracted war, and scientific and precise epidemic prevention is our ideal. Only by shielding the virus and ensuring the order of production and life as much as possible can we demonstrate the efficiency and civilization of our society. Considering that some places’ epidemic prevention and control measures are too simple and crude and criticized by public opinion, we can especially cherish the outstanding performance of Shanghai’s management departments since the epidemic. Shanghai’s “normalization of the epidemic and standardization of epidemic handling” have given citizens more confidence and peace of mind to deal with the new coronavirus.

For example, on Dianping, netizens have been cheering for this temporarily closed milk tea shop: "Getting to know this milk tea shop in another way, I hope the epidemic will end soon, and I hope that several young men and women I have never met will recover soon. It is not easy to work." It can be said that this warm and considerate humanistic atmosphere is one of the good results of precise and scientific prevention and control of the epidemic.

I applaud Shanghai for its precise and pragmatic approach to epidemic prevention. On the basis of a large amount of scientific and solid work, we should provide the greatest convenience to the people, minimize interference as much as possible under the epidemic environment, and ensure normal order. This is governing for the people and putting the people first.

Comprehensive sources: Xinhuanet, CCTV News Client, Science and Technology Daily, Guangming Daily, etc.