After nearly 100 residents of Banghua Interstellar Apartment, Hailong Street, Liwan District, Guangzhou were sent away for centralized isolation earlier, the epidemic prevention personnel broke the door lock to enter the house without the consent of the residents (Figure 1), checked the residents who escaped the isolation and disinfected, causing anger Public outcry. The Liwan District New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention Headquarters apologized to residents and the public for the “simple and rude wrongdoing” yesterday, stressing that it will conduct a comprehensive and in-depth investigation, deal with the relevant personnel seriously, and resolutely prevent similar incidents from happening again. People promise compensation.
The “explosion incident” aroused heated discussions after it was circulated on mainland social platforms last Friday. The Liwan District Epidemic Prevention Headquarters explained yesterday that a resident of the “Banghua Interstellar Apartment Building 2” involved was infected with the virus on the 8th of this month. After the close contacts were sent to centralized isolation, after checking, it was found that some people were “hiding at home”, and some of them were among them. The nucleic acid was positive, so in the early morning of the 10th, 84 households on the key floor were unlocked and checked one by one, and then the seal was affixed, and the whole process was videotaped.
The Liwan District Epidemic Prevention Headquarters admitted that the above-mentioned practices were simple and rude, ignored the feelings of the residents and hurt the feelings of the people, but emphasized that during the “emergency home inspection”, the building involved was closed, and security was strengthened 24 hours a day to ensure the safety of residents’ property, and successively Residents installed new door locks, and the person in charge of Hailong Street has apologized to the residents one by one, admitted mistakes and promised compensation.
Official media denounces “outrageous”: epidemic prevention must be in accordance with laws and regulations
The Beijing News, Hubei Jingshi and other internal media have criticized that “prevention and control cannot be lawless,” and they believe that “breaking inspections not only deviate from the requirements of precise prevention and control, but also deviate from the track of the rule of law.” The official Weibo account of the overseas edition of People’s Daily, “Xia Ke Dao”, also dismissed the incident as “outrageous”, referring to similar brutal epidemic prevention practices in some places, emphasizing that “epidemic prevention must be scientific, but also in accordance with laws and regulations.” In addition to an apology, “it is also very important to form an effective punishment and protection mechanism.”
In terms of epidemic figures, 510 new local infections were reported in the mainland the day before yesterday, with Gansu accounting for the most 211, Guangxi accounting for 112, Anhui 55, Henan 42, Shanghai and Guangdong each accounting for 17, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Hainan, Sichuan and Jilin. , Shandong, and Liaoning have cases. Taiwan reported 17,549 new local infections and 48 deaths yesterday.
27 people indicted amid relative silence in Macau
In Macau, 22 new local infections were reported the day before, bringing the total to 1,755. The 11th round of nationwide testing started yesterday morning, and the “relatively static” epidemic prevention measures have also been extended to Saturday since yesterday. The authorities said yesterday that there are still citizens going to relatives’ houses for dinner parties and so on despite the relative stillness, and once again appealed to the public to reduce going out unless necessary. The police said that various departments had advised 542 people as of 3 p.m. yesterday, and since the 11th of this month, a total of 27 people have been prosecuted for violating the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases.
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