Chinanews, February 7th, is the county seat in the countryside?
Is it necessary to have a nucleic acid test certificate when returning from a low-risk area to a city across provinces?
Are friends and relatives allowed to gather during the local Chinese New Year?
In response to this series of questions, the National Health Commission today responded in the form of questions and answers through its official Weibo.
The following is the full text of the question and answer:
Question 1: According to the "Work Plan for the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemics in Rural Areas in Winter and Spring", "returning persons refer to those returning to rural areas from other places". How to define a "rural area"? Does the county belong to the countryside?
Answer: The "Work Plan for the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in Rural Areas in Winter and Spring" refers to all returnees who have cross-provincially returned to rural areas, as well as employees of imported cold chain food in the province, and employees who have direct contact with imported goods at ports. , Personnel from key groups such as quarantine workers and transportation personnel who return to rural areas across prefectures and cities. In principle, the specific scope of rural areas shall be determined by localities based on local conditions and combined with national policies.
Question 2: During the Spring Festival, should people who return to cities from low-risk areas across provinces have a nucleic acid test certificate?
Answer: According to the relevant provisions of the epidemic prevention and control documents such as the "Notice on the Orderly Implementation of Nucleic Acid Testing for Mass Travel during the Spring Festival Transport Period" by the Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, employees who import cold chain food in low-risk areas and ports directly contact imported goods Employers, staff in quarantine places, transportation vehicles and other key groups who travel across provinces and cities, as well as returnees who return to rural areas across provinces, should have a valid negative result of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test within 7 days; Other personnel in low-risk areas should travel with the health pass code "green code" and move in an orderly manner under the premise of normal body temperature and personal protection.
Question 3: According to the "Work Plan for the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemics in Rural Areas in Winter and Spring", "14 days home health monitoring is required after returning home with a negative nucleic acid test certificate", but the Spring Festival holiday is less than 14 days, how to solve it? When returning after the Spring Festival holiday, is it necessary to follow the relevant prevention and control requirements for returning people?
Answer: The "Work Plan for the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemics in Rural Areas in Winter and Spring" with a negative nucleic acid test certificate for home health monitoring after returning home and 14 days after returning home will be implemented from January 28th to March 8th. It ends after the end.
If the return home is less than 14 days, the actual home health monitoring and nucleic acid testing requirements shall be implemented according to the actual return time.
Returning after the Spring Festival holiday, it is necessary to comprehensively study and judge the epidemic prevention and control situation and epidemic risk level of the location and destination, and the destination epidemic prevention and control requirements shall prevail.
Question 4: During the local Chinese New Year, are relatives and friends allowed to gather, and are there any specific restrictions or related requirements?
Answer: According to the "Notice of the State Council on the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for the Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus Infection and Pneumonia" and other relevant documents and program requirements for epidemic prevention and control, the movement of people and crowd gatherings will be minimized during the New Year.
Enterprises and institutions should control the number of people in meetings, gatherings and other activities. For activities with more than 50 people, they should formulate prevention and control plans and strictly implement relevant prevention and control measures; promote family private gatherings and dinners to be controlled at less than 10 people, and take personal protection against influenza Try not to participate in the symptoms.
In rural areas, households are required not to hold gatherings such as dinner parties, to promote and advocate changing customs, to persuade the peasants not to visit, not gather, and go out less, and to advocate "deferred events, funerals, and banquets."
Activities that really need to be held should have a scale of less than 50 people and a prevention and control plan, and report to the territorial epidemic prevention and control headquarters for approval. The village committee is responsible for supervising the basic information of registered participants and strictly implementing prevention and control measures.
Question 5: Truck drivers travel around all year round, which is not part of the scope of celebrating the New Year on the spot, but they face the pain point of returning home. Can you clarify the return home policy for special groups such as truck drivers?
Answer: According to the relevant regulations of epidemic prevention and control work, transportation personnel who return to their hometowns across provinces and cities must have a valid negative result of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test within 7 days.
Question 6: During the Spring Festival travel period, the demand for nucleic acid testing of returnees increases. Are there any corresponding safeguards to avoid the risk of cross-infection during the testing process?
Answer: In the process of epidemic prevention and control, the National Health Commission has always guided the public to emphasize personal protective measures, such as wearing masks correctly, washing hands frequently, and maintaining safe social distance.
Those returning home who need to undergo nucleic acid testing can go to medical institutions for sampling and take personal protection during the sampling process.
The Commission has repeatedly requested medical institutions to make appointments for sampling, interval sampling time periods, and implement standard preventive measures such as enhanced ventilation, environmental cleaning and disinfection, to minimize cross-infection.