(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) China's National Health Commission: "Overweighting" is a lazy policy and a waste of resources for epidemic prevention
China News Service, Beijing, January 31st (Reporter Li Chun) "'Lazy overweight' and'one size fits all' are both a kind of lazy policy and a waste of precious epidemic prevention resources." Implementation of epidemic prevention policies for some places" "The phenomenon, China's National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng made the above statement at the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism press conference held on January 31.
Some reporters at the meeting said that although the country has made it clear that localities cannot "enhance each level" or "one size fits all" when implementing epidemic prevention policies.
However, some netizens report that some places have shortened holding a negative nucleic acid certificate within 7 days to within 3 days, and some have changed home health monitoring to require home isolation, and even some places have blocked and locked doors for returning people.
In response, Mi Feng responded that there have indeed been "one size fits all" situations in some places where there has been "one size fits all" of the health monitoring and nucleic acid testing of returnees, which has aroused widespread concern in the whole society and also caused dissatisfaction among some affected people.
On the basis of summing up the experience and lessons of the previous stage, the state formulates epidemic prevention and control policies during the Spring Festival travel season in accordance with the law. It is also to reduce the risk of the spread of the epidemic as much as possible to protect the health of the people. It is by no means to set the Spring Festival reunion beyond prevention and control. Need obstacles.
"'Overweighting' and'one size fits all' are both a lazy policy and a waste of precious resources for epidemic prevention." Mi Feng said that all localities should standardize and implement the epidemic prevention and control requirements during the Spring Festival transport period in 2021, and scientifically and accurately prevent epidemics. The work related to control should not be "overweighted" or "overweighted" on the basis of existing policies, and should not be "one size fits all" in work.
Mi Feng said that for provinces other than Beijing, there must be "six nos". People from other places should not be arbitrarily prohibited from returning to their hometowns for the New Year, and measures of concentration and home isolation should not be implemented for returnees. Non-key populations are subject to nucleic acid testing, non-key populations returning from low-risk areas within the province will not be tested for nucleic acid testing certificates, home health monitoring will not be conducted on returnees within the province, and the period of home health monitoring must not be arbitrarily extended.
Localities should rectify deviations in a timely manner. The State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive Team will pay close attention to the implementation of local policies, and will notify the implementation of policies that clearly do not meet the requirements and require immediate rectification.
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