China News Service, Beijing, September 29th, title:

(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) How to prevent the epidemic from rebounding during the National Day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday?

  China News Agency reporter Li Yanan

  Autumn and winter are the seasons for the high incidence of infectious diseases, and the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading around the world, and the prevention and control situation is severe.

As the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival of China approaches, issues such as how to travel safely and whether the epidemic will rebound have become the focus of public opinion.

Relevant persons in charge of multiple departments and relevant experts in China responded to the above questions at the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Press Conference held in Beijing on the 29th.

  What is the current situation of epidemic prevention and control?

  Data show that the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide has exceeded 33 million, and the cumulative number of deaths has exceeded 1 million.

  "Reviewing the changes in the epidemic over the past eight months, since the beginning of the year, the global trend of the epidemic has been rising all the way." Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Press Conference on the 29th. With the application of new and particularly effective preventive measures, it is expected that the epidemic will be well controlled for some time in the future. It is estimated that the possibility is unlikely."

  Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission of China and deputy director of the Publicity Department, said that although the current epidemic in China has been effectively controlled, there have been no new local confirmed and suspected cases reported for 44 consecutive days, but new imported confirmed and asymptomatic cases have been added. Infected people continue to report, and there is always a risk of sporadic cases and local outbreaks in China.

  Wu Zunyou also emphasized that cases of rebound in many countries suggest that if prevention and control measures are slack, the epidemic will rebound.

It is necessary to cherish the prevention and control results achieved so far, maintain the awareness of normalization of prevention and control, and adjust protective measures at any time according to changes in the epidemic.

  The long holiday is approaching, how to ensure that people travel with peace of mind?

  As China's domestic epidemic prevention and control situation improves, people's enthusiasm for travel has gradually increased.

With the upcoming National Day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the outside world has higher expectations for the recovery of the tourism market, and the risk of epidemic prevention and control also increases.

  Li Jian, deputy director of the Marketing Management Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, pointed out that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has carried out work in many aspects: The audience in other performance venues shall not exceed 75% of the seats.

Implement limited, appointment, and peak shift management in tourist attractions, and continue to promote the ticket reservation system for tourist attractions.

Early warnings have been issued to 200 scenic spots with high tourist attention and large bookings.

  In terms of epidemic prevention and control of transportation vehicles, Li Huaqiang, deputy director of the Transportation Services Department of the Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China, said that the Ministry of Transport has urged operators of railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation, and urban passenger transport to deal with stations, ports, airports, and highways. The service area and transportation vehicles shall be disinfected and ventilated.

Various places require health codes to be checked at stations, ports, airports and other places. In order to facilitate the travel of the elderly, children and other passengers who do not use or do not have smart phones, operators are required to provide services such as checking health codes and assisting in information filling for passengers in need. .

  In addition, in order to strictly prevent the import of overseas epidemics at highway ports, Li Huaqiang pointed out that the Ministry of Transport instructs local transportation authorities to conduct nucleic acid tests on international road freight drivers on a regular basis, and organizes passenger transport companies to transport people entering highway ports to point-to-point quarantine. Point, so far, a total of about 41,000 immigrants have been transported.

  How to prevent multiple infectious diseases in autumn and winter?

  Recently, the 2020 version of the national influenza prevention and control plan was officially released.

Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the CDC of the National Health Commission of China, pointed out that influenza and new coronary pneumonia have similarities in prevention and control strategies and key measures. This plan emphasizes the overall planning and deployment of prevention and control work, and promotes more respiratory infectious diseases. Joint detection of pathogens to achieve mutual prevention of multiple diseases.

  It is also very important that the fever clinics of various medical institutions play the role of checkpoints.

Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peking University First Hospital, revealed that the state had previously allocated funds for the renovation and upgrading of fever clinics in county-level hospitals. At the same time, it required all localities to standardize the construction of fever clinics, including relatively independent regional settings, and basic inspections were completed within the region. To avoid the risk of disease spread.

  From the public's perspective, Wang Guiqiang said that it is necessary to reduce gatherings as much as possible, wear masks in crowded places, and do good hand hygiene.

In the autumn and winter seasons, you must monitor yourself and your family members. If you experience uncomfortable symptoms, including fever, runny nose and other special manifestations similar to new coronary pneumonia, go to the hospital in time.

  "As long as personal protection is done, it should be said that the risk of the epidemic is very small." Wu Zunyou reminded the public that in addition to personal protection during travel, they should also continue to observe their physical condition after the trip.

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