Recently, the level of early warning of new crown pneumonia in South Korea has been raised to the highest "severe" level. In order to prevent the epidemic from being imported, some places in China have introduced targeted measures.
Weihai: Free entry for 14 days from now on
According to the "Weihai Post" WeChat public account message, Weihai requires that from February 25, all immigrants from Japan, South Korea, and other countries to Weihai, including foreigners and Chinese, will receive unified free accommodation in hotels, 14 Days later the concentration was lifted.
On the 25th, Wang Luming, Secretary of the Weihai Municipal Party Committee and Leader of the Leading Group for New Coronavirus Pneumonia Disposal of the Municipal Party Committee presided over a meeting to study and deploy the prevention and control of overseas epidemic input, and proposed specific measures.
The meeting proposed:
1. Airports, ports, stations, and traffic checkpoints in and out of Weihai, strictly implement measures such as temperature detection and registration of people coming to Weihai. Any fever found will be sent to a dedicated fever clinic by the disease control personnel for professional treatment.
2. From February 25, all immigrants from Japan, South Korea, and other countries to Weihai, including foreigners and Chinese, will be unifiedly received by the hotel for free centralized living, and single rooms and specialized management services will be provided to ensure residence. The personnel were comfortable and satisfied, and could communicate with the outside world easily and conveniently. After 14 days, the centralized residence was lifted.
3. All the Chinese and foreign personnel who have entered the country from Japan and South Korea since February 10 will be followed up by telephone to understand the physical condition of each person and promptly and professionally deal with fever and close contacts.
Yantai deploys overseas epidemic prevention work
On the 25th, the Leading Group (Headquarters) of the New Crown Pneumonia Disposal of Yantai City held a special meeting to study and deploy the prevention of overseas epidemic import.
The meeting emphasized that the prevention of overseas epidemic input should be taken as an urgent task for the prevention and control of the current epidemic, and a joint joint prevention and control mechanism at the port should be established immediately to fully complete the work of information reporting, identity registration, health testing, and emergency response for immigrants.
Establish inbound and outbound transport facilities at airports and other ports of entry to special docking areas and special passages for immigrants, and strictly regulate the quarantine of goods and luggage. Strengthen the management of immigrants, and do a good job in health declaration and information reporting.
For those who have fever, dry cough and other symptoms, take corresponding measures immediately; for those who do not need to take measures, arrange special vehicles and "point-to-point" transfers to their destinations; for short-term residence such as business travel, they will be arranged to live in designated hotels.
Incorporate all immigrants into their units, enterprises, communities and other prevention and control mechanisms, implement health management and service guarantee measures, and actively do communication and interpretation.
Qingdao strictly prevents and controls overseas epidemic import
At the 32nd regular working meeting of Qingdao New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters held in the afternoon of February 24, Shandong Province Standing Committee Member, Secretary of Qingdao Municipal Party Committee and City New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention Headquarters Commander Wang Qingxian once again emphasized that it is necessary to comprehensively While doing a good job of community prevention and control, strictly prevent the import of overseas epidemics, strengthen risk assessment and port quarantine, strictly implement control measures such as information registration for young people, temperature detection and quarantine, and take the initiative to do a good job in communication and interpretation of foreign personnel and service guarantee. Resolutely prevent the spread of epidemic input.
Qingdao Customs conducts boarding and quarantine inspections on aircraft declared by persons with symptoms of infectious diseases. Photo by Liu Xuewen
It was learned from Qingdao New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters that since Qingdao initiated the first-level response to the New Crown Pneumonia epidemic, it has been strictly preventing and controlling young migrants from abroad. According to statistics, from January 24 to February 23, Qingdao Airport entered a total of 20,516 people. For the "four types of situations" of immigrants, centralized isolation or observation are implemented: one has a history of travel or residence in the epidemic area and has fever or respiratory symptoms; the second is a history of contact with people infected with the new coronavirus; Third, there were fever cases in the means of transportation; fourth, fever or respiratory symptoms were detected during on-site quarantine inspections.
With the changes in the epidemic situation abroad, Qingdao City has begun to send back cars to the districts and cities where it resides, except for those who need to be quarantined or watched. Isolate and observe for 14 days; for short-term residence such as business travel, arrange residence and activities in designated hotels.
A total of 977 new cases of new pneumonia confirmed in South Korea
According to Korean media reports, up to now, there have been 84 new confirmed cases of infection with new coronavirus in South Korea, with a total of 977 confirmed cases and 10 deaths.
The South Korean government, the ruling party and Cheongwadai held a joint meeting on the 25th and announced that they would take further quarantine restrictions in Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do regions with severe epidemics. Earlier the Korean government had declared the area a special area for the management of infectious diseases.
Many large Korean companies announced the implementation of flexible working hours. A few days ago, a confirmed diagnosis of patients in a Samsung Electronics factory led to the closure of the factory. The Samsung Group said it has asked workers who are pregnant or at home to work from home this week. South Korea's SK Group has announced that several of its companies are recommending employees to work remotely in the coming weeks. LG Electronics Group said that it has asked workers in Daegu to work from home, and advised employees not to go to production bases.
In addition, due to the impact of the epidemic, there may be variables in the Korean-US military exercise. South Korean Defense Minister Zheng Jingdou and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper held a press conference after meeting in Washington on the 24th, saying that South Korea and the United States are negotiating to reduce the size of the joint exercise scheduled for March.
On the evening of the 24th, the U.S. military in South Korea reported a confirmed infection to a member of the staff, announcing that on the 25th, military personnel were prohibited from going on vacation, and that access to the camp was strictly restricted.
Newly diagnosed cases of Japanese new crown pneumonia have increased to 853
According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), after the first case of new crown pneumonia was confirmed in Nagano, Japan, and two new cases of new crown pneumonia were added in Kumamoto Prefecture on the 25th, as of 5 pm local time, the confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in Japan have Increased to 853 people.
Among them are 691 infected people who have been diagnosed on the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship, 14 infected people who returned to Japan by charter flight, and 148 infected people who were infected in Japan and tourists from China.
Earlier on the evening of the 23rd, Japan ’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced that the third “Diamond Princess” cruise passenger died of a new crown virus infection and was a Japanese male in his 80s.
Agence France-Presse reported on the 25th that the fourth "Diamond Princess" cruise passenger died due to infection with the new crown virus, a male in his 80s.