Recently, in Sichuan, Guangdong and other regions, people have taken off masks, gathered for tea, and traffic jams in scenic spots have caused concern. Can residents in low-risk areas take off masks when they go out? How can I tell if the area I live in is high or low risk? How to manage the epidemic situation separately? On February 25, the State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference to introduce scientific and precise measures for prevention and control of epidemic situations.

Wuhan's existing severe disease proportion has declined significantly in the last 3 days

Mi Feng, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the National Health and Health Commission:

Since February, the proportion of existing severe cases in confirmed cases in Wuhan has fluctuated from a peak of 31.6% on February 11 to 22.0% on February 24, and the decline has been evident in the past three days. The proportion of existing severe diseases in other cities in Hubei and other provinces across the country has remained stable since February 7 and was 11.8% and 10.5% on February 24, respectively. The combination of basic medicine and clinical practice, frontal clinical treatment and rear multidisciplinary support, medical treatment and nursing, medical treatment and management combined treatment measures effectively prevented the mild patients from turning into the serious ones, and the treatment effect of the severe patients gradually improved.

Data map: Huangzhou District People's Hospital doctors consulted critically ill patients. Photo by Deng Zhuoyuan

Outside Beijing, Hubei

Dividing low, medium and high risk levels by county level

Ou Xiaoli, Director of the Social Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission:

At present, according to the severity of the epidemic, places outside Hubei Province and Beijing are divided into low, medium and high risk areas at the county level.

How are regions of different risk levels controlled?

He Qinghua, First Class Inspector, National Bureau of Health and Disease Control and Prevention:

The measures taken in low-risk areas are to strictly prevent input, to provide necessary health services to personnel from medium-risk areas and high-risk areas, and medical institutions in low-risk areas to strengthen the standardized management of fever clinics and respiratory clinics to achieve early detection and early detection. Report, early isolation, early treatment;

The medium-risk areas adopt external defense imports and internal non-proliferation. Based on the measures taken in low-risk areas, they should be prepared for materials and personnel such as medical treatment, disease control and prevention. For the detected epidemic, it is necessary to accurately determine the isolation place and control. personnel;

High-risk areas need internal non-proliferation, external defense export, and strict control. Based on the aforementioned measures, they must stop gathering activities and implement regional traffic control in accordance with the law.

Data map: On February 12, at the gate of the community in the North and West District of Fengtai District, Beijing, citizens took their body temperature when they entered the community. Photo by Sheng Jiapeng of China News Agency

How to resume work and production in each risk area?

Ou Xiaoli, Director of the Social Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission:

Low-risk areas will fully restore production and living order, remove road traffic restrictions, set no conditions for enterprises to resume work and resume production, and may not use the forms of examination, approval, filing, etc. as an excuse to delay the resume of work and resume production;

Orderly return to normal production and living order in medium-risk areas as soon as possible. Organize personnel to return to work in an orderly manner. Guide employees to strictly implement requirements for disinfection, ventilation, and temperature measurement. Reduce personnel density, reduce staff gathering, and achieve epidemic prevention and control. Resumption of production proceeds simultaneously;

High-risk areas should continue to focus their efforts on epidemic prevention and control, and expand the scope of resumption of work and production in an orderly manner after the epidemic is effectively controlled. At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure the operation of public utilities for the prevention and control of epidemic conditions, the needs of the people's lives, and other important national economic and livelihood enterprises Normal operation.

Data map: Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport, staff measures temperature for passengers. Photo by Zhang Bin

Will the community continue to be closed?

He Qinghua, First Class Inspector, National Bureau of Health and Disease Control and Prevention:

Judgment should be based on the risk level of the epidemic. In the middle-risk areas, the existing cases and epidemiological investigations and epidemic situation analysis are used as clues to determine the prevention and control management sites and personnel, and implement refined management. If it is a school outbreak, it must be accurate to the class, if it is in the factory, it must be accurate to the workplace, the workplace. In the village, households are used as units to implement targeted prevention and control strategies. In addition to the above measures, high-risk areas should also restrict personnel gathering, and adopt closed-loop management and other control measures to restrict personnel access.

Data Map: On February 18, Shenzhen residents came to Nanshan Shenzhen Bay Park to relax and exercise with a mask. The picture shows citizens taking pictures by the sea. China News Agency reporter Chen Wenshe

Can masks be removed in low-risk areas?

He Qinghua, First Class Inspector, National Bureau of Health and Disease Control and Prevention:

Low-risk areas do not mean that there is no risk. Some areas have just transitioned from high-risk and medium-risk to low-risk. Residents should usually take personal protection to reduce unnecessary crowd gathering. It is recommended to wear masks at crowd gathering places. Do a good job of personal self-health monitoring.

Finishing: Zhang Ni, Zhang Xu, Zuo Yukun, and Ren Siyu