The Leading Group of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Prevention and Control announced these measures on February 22. It requires city, prefecture, county, county-level city, and district level governments, and leadership departments to take stringent efforts without any let-up in epidemic prevention and control.

Here is a summary of the eleven measures:

1. Residential communities, villages, factories, industrial parks, commercial areas, and offices should assume epidemic prevention and control responsibilities by mobilizing grassroot organizations, liaisons, and volunteers to carry out the epidemic prevention and control measures. This would include temperature screening, screening detection, tracking and serving discharged patients, and managing canteens, workshops, and dormitories. Residents and workers should maintain good personal hygiene and self-protection via “wearing masks; frequent hand washing; keeping rooms well-ventilated; and, avoiding gathering”. Coordinated and massive prevention and control measures should be combined.

2. In crowded locations, such as trains, subways, airports, wharves, shopping malls, and bazaars, epidemic prevention and control measures should be implemented, including temperature screening, disinfection, ventilation, and public hygiene and order maintenance. All venues and all persons are to be included.

3. Restaurants, guesthouses, and hotels should arrange dining facilities and tables reasonably and limit dinner parties. Staffers should be examined daily before beginning work.

4. Prisons, detention and drug rehabilitation centers should improve alert level and implement close management to thoroughly investigate possible infection risks. Unnecessary police officer and staff outings should be limited. Only necessary personnel should be allowed entry. Detainee turnover should be limited for institutional safety and stability.

5. Nursing homes, charity residences, homeless shelters, and mental hospitals should be closely managed. Outsider visits, volunteer services, and social activities should be suspended. The staff should disinfect often, take temperature screening regularly, keep rooms ventilated, and offer care services to fully exert.

6. All mahjong, chess, and cards rooms, teahouses, and activity rooms should remain closed. Any that are open are ordered to be closed.

7. Pubs, internet bars, KTVs, theaters, and amusement parks are to remain closed unless permission is granted.

8. Tourist resorts should make a thorough risk assessment before reopening. They should develop and practice contingency plans for epidemic prevention and control, and controlling visitor flow. Those which are allowed to be open could control the number of visitors to prevent crowds. Epidemic prevention and control measures are to be in place.

9. “Early detection, reporting, isolation, and treatment”, as well as “pooling of patients, experts, resources, and centralizing treatment” should be implemented. Chinese and Western medicine treatment should be combined to allow full play to the medical experts, and optimize diagnosis and treatment schemes. Experts should concentrate on critical cases to improve the survival rates, and reduce infection and mortality rates. All close contacts with confirmed patients should be isolated at designated venue for medical observation. Nucleic acid tests should be conducted for the close contacts with the confirmed or suspected patients, and the persons under medical observation.

10. Fever Clinics should be separated from other departments. Those fever patients should be classified to improve fever clinic diagnosis efficiency and avoid misdiagnose and cross infection.

11. Medical staff should be further protected and cared for from the aspects of material support, humanistic concerns, work shift arrangement, moral encouragement, subsidies, and helping solve family problems, in order to safeguard their health and safety.  

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn. 

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn