A volunteer in Beijing's Chaoyang District measures the body temperature of a resident at a community entrance as the temperature hovered just under 40 degrees centigrade. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

Beijing has been sweltering under a heat wave in recent days, which has made tiring work for grassroots-level workers who are in charge of intensive community-based epidemic prevention and control.

Members of the women's federations at all levels in Beijing are active in the household-based work of controlling the transmission of the virus. Such strict measures as body temperature-taking and offering a resident pass before entering have restarted.

A staff member of a sub-district-level women's federation in Beijing's Chaoyang District writes down the residents' information. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

The Beijing authorities have declared a "wartime mode" to combat the reemergence of the virus. In response, the Women's Federation of Chaoyang District in Beijing urged the women's federations at sub-district and township levels to be fully committed to epidemic prevention and control and to maximize the role of women.

Because the investigation into the origin and what's driving the latest outbreak in Beijing is still going on, massive screening covering all considered to be at risk is necessary to curb the epidemic. 
Staff members of the women's federations take the initiative to conduct door-to-door investigation to follow the potential transmission chains from those working at wholesale markets, the current investigative focus, and those who have recently visited them.

Women's federations at all levels also make efforts to publicize epidemic prevention and control policies and scientific protection so as to guide residents to proactively report their potential risk of infection to the community and to remind them of practicing good personal protection and home medical observation.

The effort is part of a massive screening campaign across the capital aimed at detecting those with evidence of exposure to COVID-19 in an effort to cut off the virus' further spread.

Staff input people's information on the computer to build up a complete database. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

Volunteers go from door to door to investigate whether residents have had direct or indirect exposure to the wholesale markets. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

A volunteer posts tips for epidemic prevention and control at the entrance of a community. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

Medical workers braving the scorching heat take a throat swab from a resident for a COVID-19 nucleic acid test in Chaoyang District, Beijing. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

Medical workers braving the scorching heat take a throat swab from a resident for a COVID-19 nucleic acid test in Chaoyang District, Beijing. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

A women's federation's worker and volunteers inspect a store's supply of goods and checks whether the clerk had disinfected her merchandise as required in Chaoyang District, Beijing. [Chaoyang Women's Federation]

(Source: Chaoyang Women's Federation/Translated and edited by Women of China)