BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Before resuming operation, Huang Jing's company in Wuhan, a city once hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, arranged two rounds of nucleic acid tests and one blood antibody test for all employees.
"Last Sunday, I did another throat swab and antibody tests in the community," said the 29-year-old woman who returned to work in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, in mid-April from her hometown in Henan Province.
The company and the community are still very strict in epidemic prevention and control, requiring all employees and residents to show their health code and take their body temperature every day, she said.
Through arduous efforts, China has achieved decisive results in the fight against COVID-19 to protect hard-hit Hubei and its capital city Wuhan. The nation has also made major strategic strides in curbing the spread of the virus with positive results in coordinating the epidemic control and economic and social development.
With hard-earned achievements, Chinese authorities demand regular prevention and control measures while speeding up production resumption.
"Anti-epidemic work has yielded favorable results," said Wang Xueli, Party secretary of Wuhan's Dongting community.
The gate of the community has not been fully opened, with staff on duty 24 hours a day. Residents need to wear a mask and have their body temperature measured when entering or leaving the community, while outsiders are required to register at the gate.
"Many volunteers have joined us in epidemic prevention and control, helping us to form a long-term anti-epidemic mechanism from the door of every household to the gate of our community," Wang said.
Local authorities in Huimin County, east China's Shandong Province, have been battling against the epidemic through digital means, integrating "big data and grid-based" measures.
Huimin has developed a service platform that can show information about 9,589 points set in the county. People have to scan QR codes when passing through these points to ensure travel records of COVID-19 cases can be traceable.
"I think the epidemic prevention and control measures have been part of our life and work," said Ge Chang, a doctor at Liyuan Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. "But the alarm bell is still ringing. If I went out without a mask now, I'd feel scared."
The doctor said compared with a month ago, when the hospital just resumed normal medical treatment, the number of patients in the ward has greatly increased, with CT, antibody and nucleic acid tests required for inpatients.
China has released a circular requiring strengthened infection control in medical institutions and better implementation of the epidemic prevention and control work on a regular basis.
Shanghai's fever clinics will gradually increase their capacity to conduct nucleic acid tests to ensure all patients that require the test are able to do so in time, according to the municipal health commission.
With epidemic prevention measures, most major enterprises in China have resumed operations. Tourist sites have reopened and diners reappeared in restaurants. As of May 11, over 100 million students nationwide have resumed classes. Some primary, middle school and university students across the country have returned to campus. In Beijing, more students are expected to return to school in early June.
Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology, said 99.1 percent of Chinese industrial enterprises with an annual business turnover of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.82 million U.S. dollars) had resumed production as of Monday and about 95.4 percent of employees in such enterprises have returned to work. Enditem
