At the 124th press conference of the Hubei Provincial New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters held on the morning of August 3, Li Tao, deputy secretary-general of the Wuhan Municipal People's Government, announced that nucleic acid testing for all employees in the city will be launched quickly.

  On August 2, there were 7 new cases of local new coronary pneumonia associated with other provinces in Wuhan Economic Development Zone.

At present, the trajectories of relevant personnel have been investigated, relevant communities have been closed and controlled, and Zhuankou Street in Wuhan's Economic Development Zone has been designated as a medium-risk area.

  The full-staff nucleic acid testing will give full play to the role of 11 urban testing bases in Wuhan, using communities as grid units to ensure that the nucleic acid testing tasks are completed in the fastest and shortest time.

  At present, Wuhan City has suspended all offline education, teaching and gathering activities; the city's public transportation has adopted temporary control measures to temporarily close closed areas where passage is prohibited, rail transit stations in the closed areas, and bus lines bypass the closed areas; The city's A-level tourist attractions have reduced the number of tourists to 50% of the maximum capacity of the scenic spots, and all performing arts activities in the scenic spots have been suspended.

  The Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Commerce has extensively mobilized various supply guarantee companies to maintain normal business operations and increase commodity reserves and distribution.

Major supermarkets in Wuhan also organized their employees to replenish goods overnight to ensure supply and promise not to increase prices.

Public places such as subways, schools, supermarkets, and buses have also carried out prevention and control work in an orderly manner.

(Reporter Zheng Ziyan)

Editor in charge: [Li Ji]