Chinanews.com, Dalian, December 30 (Reporter Yang Yi) Zhao Lian, deputy director of the Dalian Municipal Health Commission, said at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control held by the local government on the 30th that the whole city of Dalian will suspend non-essential large-scale gatherings. Large-scale gathering events will not be held in Shanghai, and the conference advocates to be held in the form of video.

  For large-scale gathering activities or meetings that really need to be organized or hosted, the organization or undertaking unit shall assume the main responsibility and formulate detailed and standardized prevention and control plans.

Strictly control the number of people and scale, strictly do a good job in epidemic prevention, and strictly prevent epidemics from occurring during conference activities.

Party and government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises at all levels organize or undertake large-scale gathering activities or meetings, especially those from overseas or other key regions, which should be reported to the command headquarters at the same level for approval.

  From 0:00 to 24:00 on December 29, Dalian added 3 newly confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia (all asymptomatic infections were converted to confirmed cases); 3 new local asymptomatic infections were added.

Since December 15, Dalian has reported a total of 38 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 27 local asymptomatic infections under medical observation.

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