Epidemic situation in COVID-19 and healthy cities

The pneumonia epidemic caused by novel coronavirus last year did not stop spreading because of the Spring Festival, and the newly confirmed figures are updated every day. It can be seen that the pneumonia epidemic spread explosively in Wuhan and dispersed in other provinces and cities. Someone asked why there were fewer confirmed cases in rural areas than in cities during the outbreak of new pneumonia last year. The author believes that, first of all, the countryside cannot relax its vigilance. At present, the epidemic prevention measures in rural areas are still very powerful. Then, in general, patients diagnosed in rural areas have at least the following reasons:

1. The countryside is far from Wuhan, where the epidemic is the most serious.

As we all know, the origin of this novel coronavirus probably comes from the wild animals in Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market. Judging from the current data, most patients diagnosed with new pneumonia have a history of contact with Wuhan or indirect contact with prehistoric history. The countryside is far away from Wuhan, a megacity in central and southern China. Although the epidemic situation in Wuhan is serious, it really does not affect the countryside at once.

2. The rural traffic is inconvenient

With the development of economy, the country has increased the construction of rural traffic roads, but compared with cities, rural road construction is still lagging behind, especially in mountainous rural areas, where farmers live in scattered areas, the cost of road construction is high, the capital gap is large, and the traffic situation is much worse than that in cities and towns. The inconvenient transportation in rural areas inadvertently delayed the development of cross-infection during the outbreak of new pneumonia.

3. The rural population is very small

At present, fewer and fewer people really live in the countryside. Many farmers work in cities, or their families move to towns. Although it is the Spring Festival, many people have returned to the countryside, but because the countryside is vast and sparsely populated, the population is much less than that of cities and towns. The small rural population has also objectively reduced the number of confirmed cases.

Many rural areas have taken some effective epidemic prevention measures.

Everyone knows that rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, and villagers live in scattered areas. In some places, there are only a few families and roads extend in all directions. It is difficult to control the flow of people. Therefore, some local governments have taken road closure measures to block the necessary intersections with dirt or obstacles to stop the flow of people, which is also a last resort. In addition, the publicity of epidemic prevention measures such as staying indoors, wearing masks when going out and washing hands more has been intensified. We can also see many rural banners on the Internet. For example, if you don't take the initiative to visit, you won't encounter a virus; If you don't let others visit, the virus won't find you. There are still many very grounded propaganda like this.

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Although there are relatively few novel coronavirus patients diagnosed in rural areas at present, many older people may not watch TV or news, so they don't know what novel coronavirus is or how serious it is because of the high proportion of rural elderly, relatively lagging Internet information and weak awareness of protection. Therefore, it is also a good opportunity to continue to attach importance to ideological education and rural epidemic prevention, and at the same time to carry out health science education by using the epidemic situation.