Holiday is approaching, is it safe to travel?
The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism has responded
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16 -
Question: Holiday approaching, travel safe?
The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism has responded
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays are approaching, is it safe to travel?
What are the requirements for teachers and students to leave school and return to school?
How to prevent and control the holiday epidemic?
On the 16th, the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism press conference focused on responses to issues of public concern.
It is recommended to cancel travel plans to medium- and high-risk areas
According to Mi Feng, spokesperson for the National Health Commission, since September 10, more than half of the newly diagnosed local cases in this round of the epidemic have been teachers, students, and factory employees in elementary and middle schools, kindergartens, and cluster infections are obvious.
The Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays are approaching. Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention of the National Health Commission, advises the public to minimize unnecessary outings during the holidays, cancel travel plans to medium- and high-risk areas, and take precautions during the trip if they need to travel; Do not exceed 10 people at family dinner parties, try to reduce the number of dinner parties, shorten the dinner time; do a good job of personal health monitoring, and maintain a normal and regular life.
Lei Zhenglong particularly emphasized that workers in high-risk positions such as ports of entry, centralized isolation places, designated medical institutions, etc., advocate to avoid traveling outside the country during vacations, and avoid taking planes, trains and long-distance buses to go out.
In addition, people who are undergoing home health monitoring are strictly restricted from traveling to other places and participating in gathering activities.
"At present, we cannot relax our vigilance." Wang Huaqing, chief expert of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program, said that the delta variant is highly contagious, and it is recommended that people who meet the requirements for new coronavirus vaccination be vaccinated as soon as possible.
Encourage teachers and students to celebrate festivals on the spot
The current round of the epidemic has caused the public to pay particular attention to the prevention and control of campus epidemics.
Wan Lijun, deputy director of the Sports, Health and Arts Department of the Ministry of Education, introduced that the Ministry of Education has put forward clear requirements for the prevention and control of the epidemic in the near future, especially during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
During the holidays, colleges and universities must arrange on-duty duty to ensure that the leadership is online, the epidemic prevention and control mechanism is online, and the emergency response is online, and earnestly pay attention to the specific conditions of the local and the school.
According to the local epidemic prevention and control requirements, actively respond and make dynamic policy adjustments.
At the same time, it is necessary to clarify the requirements for the prevention and control of the epidemic situation of leaving school and returning to school, encourage teachers and students to spend holidays on the spot, reduce going out, especially reduce inter-provincial mobility.
For teachers and students who stay in school for the holidays, we must strengthen care and ensure the needs of scientific research, study, and life.
When talking about whether it will promote "timely sampling" on a wider scale, Wan Lijun said that Fujian Province's practice of sampling nucleic acid for school students in a timely manner reflects the important role of nucleic acid testing in the prevention and control of the epidemic.
The Ministry of Education encourages border areas and areas where the flow of imported people from inland and overseas is frequent, to conduct nucleic acid tests on teachers and students on a regular or irregular basis.
Strictly implement the "fuse" mechanism of inter-provincial tourism management
Hou Zhengang, the first-level inspector of the Market Management Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, introduced that during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day "double festivals", more than 10,000 A-level tourist attractions will be open nationwide, accounting for about 80% of the total number of A-level tourist attractions.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism requires all localities to strictly do a good job in preventing foreign imports.
Travel agencies and online travel companies will not resume inbound and outbound team travel and "air ticket + hotel" services, and temporarily postpone the new approval of foreign-related, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-related commercial performance activities (except for those with cast and crew already in the country).
Strictly implement the "fuse" mechanism for cross-provincial tourism operations, and immediately suspend travel agencies and online tourism companies from operating the province's cross-provincial team tourism and "air ticket + hotel" business for provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities where there are medium-to-high-risk areas. After the region is cleared, the inter-provincial tourism operation will be resumed.
Hou Zhengang reminded tourists to pay close attention to the epidemic situation and do not travel to medium- and high-risk areas.
Scenic spots should implement the requirements of "limited, appointment, and peak shifting", reasonably control the upper limit of tourist reception, and strictly implement the ticket reservation system, so that tourist information can be queried and tracked.
Make every effort to ensure the safe and convenient travel of passengers during holidays
"We recommend that qualified passengers travel as far as possible." Zhuo Li, deputy director of the Emergency Office of the Ministry of Transport, said that in terms of transportation organization guarantees, the Ministry of Transport will guide localities to strengthen passenger transport hubs, railway stations, ports, airports and tourism. The deployment of transportation capacity and emergency dispatch in key areas such as scenic spots and scenic spots will strengthen transportation supply, improve the ability of dispatching, and reduce the gathering of people.
Weather and road conditions and safety emergency management are the focus of travel.
According to Zhuo Li, early warnings will be issued in time for severe weather, and monitoring of key road sections such as important road passages, congestion-prone toll stations, and large bridges across rivers will be strengthened. At the same time, passenger transport operators will be urged to strengthen personnel safety training and vehicle and ship maintenance.
(Reporters Hu Hao, Xu Penghang, Qiu Bingqing, Yu Junjie, Ye Haoming)