(Fighting New Crown Pneumonia) Inner Mongolia: Qingming imminent, suspension of group gatherings and other mass gatherings
China News Network, Hohhot, March 25 (Reporter Li Aiping) The Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reported on the 25th that Inner Mongolia officials have urged all localities to suspend the organization of collective ceremonies, collective farewells, and centralized ashes during the epidemic prevention and control period, especially during the Qingming Festival. And other group gathering activities to reduce personnel movement and gathering and avoid cross-infection.
The Qingming Festival is imminent. Officials encourage the use of online sacrifice scans, proxy sacrifice scans, online space-time mailboxes, and small-scale family reflections on grief, to reduce the number of on-site sacrifice scans and the risk of infection from sacrifice activities. It is strictly forbidden to burn paper, set off fireworks and firecrackers, and fly lanterns in funeral services and cemeteries.
Inner Mongolia attaches great importance to the risk of epidemic transmission caused by the import from overseas and areas with high risk of epidemic diseases, and puts the control of returning ancestral worship personnel during the Qingming Festival in an important position.
According to the official requirements, the flow of sacrifice and scanners in and out of funeral and interment service agencies must be strictly restricted throughout Inner Mongolia, and various measures such as the announcement of appointment telephones, the opening of sacrifice scans, and the staggered batch of sacrifice scans should be used to pre-control the flow of sacrifice scanners.
Officials require real-name registration of personnel entering funeral service agencies and sacrifice sites. They are required to enter after measuring body temperature and wearing masks. Strengthen the guidance and management of entrances and exits of funeral service places where people are likely to gather, and timely find and eliminate the scene. Security risks.
In addition, officials require that all places be closed to indoor sacrifice halls, such as columbariums, to strictly restrict personnel access, and guide sacrifice staff to designated outdoor places to sacrifice. (Finish)