(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Wuhan city public transportation will resume operations in an orderly and comprehensive manner
China News Agency, Wuhan, April 21 (Reporter Xu Jinbo) The person in charge of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan said on the 21st that as the recent situation of epidemic prevention and control in the city continued to improve, the city moved to a low-risk area for the establishment of Wuhan's public transportation will resume operations in an orderly manner on the 22nd, in accordance with economic and social development and epidemic prevention and control needs.
In order to stop the spread and spread of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, Wuhan City took measures to stop public transportation such as city buses, subways, and ferries after closing the Lihan Passage at the end of January. At the end of March, as the epidemic prevention and control situation continued to improve, Wuhan gradually opened some buses, subways, ferries and other lines, and lifted the control of the Lihan Passage on April 8.
According to the State Council's criteria for delineating the risk of a new coronavirus infection pneumonia joint prevention and control mechanism, after being evaluated by experts organized by the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan urban area was reduced to a low-risk area for the first time on the 18th. Since April 4th, there have been no new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia for more than two weeks.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Wuhan Municipal Transportation Bureau, from tomorrow (22nd), Wuhan city bus and rail transit will resume the operation of the entire network, and the operating enterprises will adjust the delivery of capacity according to the passenger flow. In principle, urban public transport is not less than 40% of the total capacity, and rail transit is not less than 65% of the total capacity. From April 30th, online taxis will resume operations, providing citizens with scheduled taxi services; inter-provincial long-distance passenger lines will resume operations, and operating companies will adjust the frequency of departures based on passenger flow and implement "point-to-point" one-stop transportation.
According to current epidemic prevention and control requirements of "foreign defense input, internal defense rebound", Wuhan city public transportation will continue to adhere to the code scanning and temperature measurement after the city's public transportation is fully restored. Buses, rail transit, trams, ferries, coaches (vessels) are equipped with management personnel, urging passengers to wear masks, scan codes to ride the car, check body temperature, and maintain good order. Passengers use the real name of the health code "green code" to register the scan code and temperature measurement to ride the car, so that the information of passengers and fellow passengers can be traced and queried.
At the same time, transportation companies will also increase the frequency of disinfection of public facilities and public areas in stations (piers), clean and disinfect vehicles according to trips, open windows for ventilation (ventilation) during operation, and strictly control passenger seating in accordance with relevant index requirements Rate, reduce the density of passengers in stations and carriages, and reduce the risk of personnel gathering. During peak hours of passenger flow at traffic stations and stations, passenger flow density control will be strengthened, and evacuation of personnel will be accelerated by increasing transportation capacity and adjusting departure intervals.
According to statistics from the Wuhan Municipal Transportation Bureau, the city “unblocked” from the 8th to the 20th, and the number of people returning to Han and returning to Han and resuming production through railways, highways, and aviation was 10.986 million, with an average daily population of 84,500. The amount was 13.2774 million person-times, with an average of 1.0213 million person-times per day. (Finish)