(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Beijing has no new confirmed cases for 36 consecutive days and advocates that the public often wear masks
China News Agency, Beijing, May 22 (Reporter Du Yan) From 0:00 to 24:00 on May 21, Beijing has no new reports of imported cases and confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia. As of 24:00 on May 21, a total of 5 cases were imported and confirmed locally.
The Beijing Municipal Health Commission stated on May 22 that from 0:00 to 24:00 on May 21, Beijing had no new reports of imported or locally confirmed cases, suspected cases and asymptomatic infections. This is the Beijing Municipality, since April 16, there have been no reports of newly confirmed cases for 36 consecutive days.
As of 24:00 on May 21, Beijing has reported a total of 174 confirmed cases imported overseas, a total of 170 discharged cases, and 4 hospitalized cases; a total of 419 locally diagnosed cases, a total of 409 discharged cases, a total of 9 deaths, and 1 hospitalized case example.
The epidemic prevention and control in Beijing has achieved periodic results and is still in a "wartime" state. The Beijing Municipal Health Supervision Office said that it will continue to work harder to prevent and control the epidemic situation with greater efforts, strengthen the supervision and inspection of public health and disease prevention in the social area, and ensure the health service of the representative members' resident health services to ensure public health during the two sessions.
In order to prevent and control the normal epidemic situation in the capital, the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention advocates the public to develop good habits of wearing masks and carrying masks with them, and strengthen self-health protection.
The center stated that medical staff, inpatients visiting hospitals, accompanying escort visitors, patients with fever or respiratory tract infections and their contacts should wear masks when they are at home or away; go to crowded and poorly ventilated indoor public Places that take subways and other public transportation to enter institutions such as pension, child care, childcare, primary and secondary schools, welfare, etc., should wear masks.
The center proposed that when the elderly and frail, chronically ill, pregnant women, etc. go out, or need to be in close contact with others and the risk cannot be determined, and the school teachers and students are recommended to wear masks.
The center said that outdoor activities can be done without masks when maintaining a social distance of 1 meter, or in indoor meetings and events where disinfection and ventilation are well, strict health monitoring, and social distances are maintained. (Finish)