(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Comprehensive News: China Holds National Condolences Event International Food Price Rise Has Limited Impact on China
China News Agency, Beijing, April 4th: In order to deeply mourn the martyrs and the dead compatriots who died on the front line of anti-epidemic disease, China held a national mourning event on the 4th. The national and foreign embassies and consulates in the lower half of the flag mourn, and the country ceases public entertainment. From 10 o'clock, the people of the whole country mourned for 3 minutes, cars, trains, and ships whistle, and air defense alarms sounded. This is the fourth national mourning event since the founding of New China and the first time that a national mourning has been initiated due to a major public health emergency.
Hubei, except Wuhan, has no newly diagnosed cases for 30 consecutive days
The Chinese National Health and Welfare Commission announced on the 4th that there were 19 newly confirmed cases nationwide on the 3rd, 18 of which were imported from abroad; 11 new suspected cases were imported from abroad. A total of 888 confirmed cases imported from abroad were reported nationwide.
As of 24 o'clock on the 3rd, Hubei, except Wuhan, had no new local confirmed cases for 30 consecutive days. There are 1562 confirmed cases nationwide, with a cumulative cure of 76,551 cases and 3,326 deaths. A total of 81,639 confirmed cases have been reported. A total of 1,236 confirmed cases of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were received (845 cases in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 43 cases in the Macao Special Administrative Region and 348 cases in Taiwan).
On the 3rd, 64 new cases of asymptomatic infections were added nationwide, 3 cases were converted to confirmed cases that day, and 1030 cases of asymptomatic infections still under medical observation.
China has not yet used the central reserve grains. The rise in international grain prices has had limited domestic impact
At the press conference of the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council held on the 4th, heads of relevant Chinese departments stated that China has abundant grain production and sufficient stocks, and the people do not have to hoard and buy grain. Since the outbreak, so far, China has not used the central grain reserves, and the impact of rising international grain prices has had limited domestic impact.
According to official data, as of now, the recovery rate of emergency processing enterprises nationwide has reached 88.2%. The processing capacity of wheat and rice of re-work enterprises is 96.2 million tons per day, equivalent to 1.92 billion catties. Based on the calculation of one person per catty per day, the daily processing capacity of these emergency food processing enterprises alone is enough for 1.4 billion people in the country to eat more than one day.
Wuhan suspends Qingming site festival sweeping activities, Beijing festival sweeping crowds decrease by about 90% year-on-year
April 4th is the traditional Qingming Festival in China. In order to cooperate with epidemic prevention and control and reduce the number of people gathered, Chinese officials advocate the "cloud sacrifice sweep." Hubei and other provinces have proposed to suspend the on-site festival sweeping service of funeral and funeral service agencies throughout the province, and some areas have opened the on-site festival sweeping in an orderly manner through appointments and current restrictions.
As a disaster-stricken area in the past, Wuhan City suspended the Qingming site festival sweeps. The local civil affairs department uniformly arranged 7 funeral homes and 13 cemetery management units on the same day, and organized staff to hold collective festival sweeps.
The day was the day when Qingming, Beijing, made the most appointments to sweep the masses. As of 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Beijing's 223 sacrificial sites received 77,758 people, a year-on-year decrease of 90%. However, the number of people on the official website of the 2020 Qingming Festival Online Sacrificial Scanning Service Platform increased by five times than usual.
Beijing epidemic prevention and control "China and foreign countries are the same, all are treated equally" Shanghai has the most imported cases outside the country
The Beijing official said on the 4th that in terms of the epidemic prevention and control requirements, Beijing will integrate foreigners into the city's prevention and control work system. Punishment.
Since the implementation of international passenger flights destined for Beijing on March 23 from 12 designated entry points, the number of imported cases in Beijing has been on a downward trend. As of 24:00 on the 3rd, a total of 169 confirmed cases of overseas imports have been reported. On the 3rd, Shanghai added 3 new cases of imported confirmed cases, and a total of 190 cases of imported confirmed cases were reported. Recently, Beijing has replaced Beijing as the most imported case in China. (Finish)