Residents take nucleic acid tests in Haizhu district, Guangzhou, Nov 6, 2022. [Photo by QIU QUANLIN/chinadaily.com.cn]

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? ? ? Authorities in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, have established a special task force consisting of senior medical experts from major hospitals to help cure patients and guide treatment in designated and makeshift hospitals in the city, a senior health official said.

? ? ? These experts were from severe disease, infection, respiratory and related medical departments, plus departments of traditional Chinese medicine.

? ? ? "We always put medical treatment first while continuing to make great efforts to implement and further optimize the prevention and control measures for COVID-19," said Zhang Yi, deputy director and spokeswoman of the Guangzhou health commission.

? ? ? Departments would further strengthen the overall planning of medical resources and go all-out to block the spread of the novel coronavirus at the community level, Zhang said at a news conference on Wednesday.

? ? ? To block the spread of novel coronavirus , Guangzhou has so far, opened a total of 19 makeshift hospitals with about 70,000 beds for patients with mild symptoms and asymptomatic carriers, Zhang said.

? ? ? More than 11,000 infected people have been discharged as of the end of Tuesday, she said.

? ? ? According to Zhang, Guangzhou reported a total of 7,970 local infections, including 39 detected at the community level.

? ? ? Of the infections, 235 are patients with mild symptoms and 7,735 are asymptomatic carriers.

? ? ? Haizhu district is still the main battlefield in the fight against the pandemic. Haizhu reported a total of 7,637 infections on Tuesday, with cases detected highly concentrated in the Kanglu, Datang and Longtan areas.

? ? ? Su Mingqing, deputy head of Haizhu, said the district has decided to prolong its strengthened prevention and control measures against the novel coronavirus.

? ? ? The measures require residents in high-risk and controlled zones to stay home, and the suspension of public transport services has played a role in blocking the novel coronavirus from further spreading at the community level in previous weeks, he said.

? ? ? Li Guoxin, vice-president of Nanfang Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, said his hospital has established about 500 beds for senior residents, pregnant women, children and severe patients.

? ? ? Wang Zilian, vice-president of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, also said her hospital, a major hospital in South China, has so far sent more than 400 medical workers to the city's makeshift hospitals to guide the treatment of infections.

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文/ZHENG CAIXIONG

報(bào)道鏈接：https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202211/23/WS637dffd3a31049175432b7c9.html

報(bào)道時(shí)間：2022-11-23

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