China News Service, Haikou, August 18 (Zhang Yuehe) The press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Hainan Province held on the 18th revealed that at present, more than half of the stranded passengers in Hainan have returned.
According to reports, from the 9th to 6:00 on the 18th, Haikou Meilan Airport and Sanya Phoenix Airport arranged a total of 615 outbound flights, transporting a total of 90,053 return passengers.
On 16 and 17, Haikou Port arranged a total of 10 sailings to transport 5,740 returning passengers.
At the same time, the aid convoys urgently dispatched from 13 transportation companies in Guangdong Province have all arrived in Hainan, with a total of 200 vehicles and a total number of 9,500 passengers.
And set up special channels and special berths in the port area, and the whole process of "point-to-point" closed-loop transfer will ensure that returning passengers can board and leave the island safely and quickly.
Chen Shaoshi, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Health Commission, announced at a press conference on the 18th that a total of 13,763 positive infections have been reported in this round of epidemic in Hainan, and the number of new positive infections in Sanya has risen for two consecutive days. Dongfang and Lingao cities and counties are still in the period of epidemic development.
On the 17th, Hainan added 496 new local confirmed cases and 1522 new local asymptomatic infections.
Sanya added 1171 and 1231 positive infections on the 16th and 17th respectively.
Chen Shaoshi said that since the number of infected people reported in Lingshui County reached its peak on the 11th, it has continued to decline, and it has dropped to single digits in the past two days.
There are sporadic cases in Haikou and Wuzhishan.
Chengmai, Qionghai, Changjiang, Ding'an and other cities and counties reported no new infections for many days.
Hainan continues to strengthen the construction of makeshift hospitals and the medical treatment of patients.
As of the 17th, all 12 Fangcang shelter hospitals in the first phase of Hainan Province have been completed and delivered, with a total of 22,291 beds delivered, and a total of 440 patients have been cured and discharged.
In order to strictly prevent the import of the epidemic at sea, Hainan carried out maritime law enforcement inspections, and filed a case against two illegal fishing boats in accordance with the law. Four people were sentenced to administrative detention for 10 days and a fine of 500 yuan, and three people were sentenced to administrative detention for five days.
Chen Shaoshi said that in the next step, Hainan will pay attention to newly infected people found in society, analyze the source of infection, find out the cause, and adjust prevention and control measures in a problem-oriented manner.
According to the high, medium and low-risk areas classified locally, each city and county formulates highly targeted and effective medical service management policies, establishes green medical channels, unblocks medical information, and timely collects medicines for chronic diseases and transfers patients.
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