Faced with the Spring Festival travel of 1.7 billion people, are the new crown epidemic prevention and control ready?
◎Our reporter Zhang Jiaxing
At a press conference on the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on January 20, Wang Xiuchun, deputy director of the Transportation Services Department of the Ministry of Transport, revealed that in light of the advance ticket sales and recent changes in passenger flow, relevant departments expect to send passengers during the National Spring Festival in 2021.17 About 100 million person-times, an average of 40 million person-times per day.
Although this number has dropped by more than 40% from 2019, it has doubled compared with the current passenger flow.
The Spring Festival travel season is under heavy pressure, especially for the first Spring Festival travel season, which is normalized for epidemic prevention and control. It is even more difficult to ensure that the epidemic does not spread due to the Spring Festival travel season.
The end of the Spring Festival travel season is of great significance, and it is the reunion of family and friends and the celebration of the festival together.
How to make overall plans and let the people enjoy a warm and reassuring Spring Festival?
In the whole process, what role will nucleic acid testing and vaccination play?
Nucleic acid test certificate within 7 days before returning home
Recently, many epidemics have spread to rural areas. For example, the epidemics in Shijiazhuang, Hebei and Suihua, Heilongjiang have all occurred in rural areas.
In this regard, the National Health Commission requires all localities to make up for shortcomings in prevention and control work as soon as possible, especially in rural areas, and expand the scope of due inspection.
"We now require township sampling and county testing in all parts of the country, and testing agencies are required to feed back the test results within 12 hours after receiving the samples, racing against time," said Wang Bin, inspector of the CDC of the National Health Commission.
In addition, due to the approach of the Spring Festival, the gathering and movement of people has increased. For example, the emergence of more people returning home and more party shopping may increase the number of infected people.
"In our relevant requirements, it is mentioned that if we say that we must return home, the returnees must have a nucleic acid negative test certificate within 7 days before they can return. At the same time, after these returnees return, the local grassroots government must These people conduct grid-based management. At the same time, they are prepared for isolation sites and detection capabilities. Once an epidemic occurs, they can respond quickly." Wang Bin said.
15 million vaccinations have been completed
Wang Bin introduced that China's new crown vaccination work is progressing steadily and orderly. Up to now, the number of vaccination has exceeded 15 million. Before the Spring Festival, the relevant vaccination work is still proceeding normally according to the existing strategy and work plan.
At present, after vaccination persons receive the vaccine, the information will be recorded through informational means. Because each person has to receive two doses, continuous recording is an essential part of standardized vaccination.
Wang Bin said that the inoculation work during and around the Spring Festival will continue smoothly and steadily.
With the continuous advancement of vaccination work, we will gradually expand the population of vaccination to the general population such as children and the elderly according to the needs of the work and the vaccination plan, so that the vaccination can exert greater practical effects and contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic. .
Chinese New Year on the spot, without losing the warmth
"The proposal of'New Year's Day' is of positive significance for reducing the flow of people and helping to prevent and control the epidemic." Chen Yongjia, deputy director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said at the meeting that more heartwarming service guarantees will help stabilize jobs work.
According to reports, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Transport, will deploy a special action called “Welcome the New Year and Bring Warmth, Stabilize Jobs and Retain Workers” around the Spring Festival to encourage companies to issue “red envelopes for staying in jobs” and “New Year gift packages”. Arrange cultural and entertainment activities, ensure wages, vacations, and other benefits; guide enterprises to arrange production, peak shift holidays and rest, implement policies such as unemployment insurance, stable job return, and vocational training subsidies, and support medium- and high-risk areas and key industries to develop Substitute training.
Through policy support, encourage enterprises to retain jobs with their positions and with their benefits.
Regarding the situation that "New Year in situ" will affect the reunion of some left-behind elderly and empty-nest elderly with their families, Li Banghua, deputy director of the Department of Elderly Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said that in order to ensure that the left-behind elderly, empty-nest elderly, and destitute objects have a safe and peaceful Spring Festival The civil affairs department is working with the local joint prevention and control mechanism to do a good job in related work. One is to incorporate the protection of these elderly people with special difficulties into the overall deployment of the local joint prevention and control. In the actual situation, we organize various forces from urban and rural communities, volunteers, and professional elderly care service organizations to provide services for the elderly in terms of medical treatment, meal delivery, purchasing and living care.
Party members and cadres in civil affairs departments and communities at all levels are relatives of these elderly people, and they have to spend a good year with them.
Regarding the elderly in elderly care institutions, Li Banghua said that relevant departments should encourage elderly care institutions to carry out small-scale festival activities, strengthen the psychological comfort of the elderly, and create conditions to help the elderly, staff and their families, provided that they meet the requirements for epidemic prevention and control. The “family connection” with relatives allows the elderly and staff to spend a safe and peaceful Spring Festival in the institution.