China News Service, Beijing, January 29 (Zhang Yilin) ​​The Spring Festival is approaching, and the epidemic has spread in many places. The epidemic prevention and control is facing the pressure of personnel movement and gathering.

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　　On the afternoon of the 29th, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference. The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the National Health Commission and clinical experts introduced the epidemic prevention and control work during the festival and answered questions from the media.

On January 22, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference.

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The increase in passenger flow during the Spring Festival will increase the risk of the spread of the epidemic

　　Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Health Commission, said that in the past week, there have been more than 23 million new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world, of which nearly 90% are mutants of Omicron. "The pressure continues to build.

At present, local clusters of epidemics have occurred in some parts of the country. With the increase in passenger flow during the Spring Festival, the risk of epidemic spread increases.

It is necessary to achieve accurate prevention and control of the whole chain, and implement measures such as epidemiological investigation, nucleic acid testing, and investigation assistance in a fast and careful manner.

Do not arbitrarily prohibit people from other places from returning to their hometowns for Chinese New Year

Compulsory persuasion of people returning home from low-risk areas shall not be adopted

　　It was introduced at the meeting that the comprehensive group of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council once again put forward clear requirements for the implementation of the epidemic prevention policy, which can be summed up as "five musts":

　　Do not arbitrarily prohibit people from other places from returning to their hometowns for the Chinese New Year;

　　Do not arbitrarily expand the scope of restricted travel;

　　The scope of restricted travel shall not be expanded from medium and high risk areas to the local city and the whole province;

　　Measures such as forced persuasion and centralized isolation should not be taken against people returning home from low-risk areas;

　　The period of centralized isolation observation and home health monitoring shall not be extended arbitrarily.

Passengers are on their way home.

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If the masses return to their hometowns, they can reflect the increase in the number of layers

　　According to Mi Feng, the comprehensive group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council has set up a public message board for the "Road to Homecoming during the Spring Festival", which is located on the homepage of the official website of the National Health Commission.

Problems such as "layers of overweight" encountered by the masses on the way back to their hometowns can be reflected, and we will carefully verify and urge rectification.

All localities must strengthen emergency duty and rapid response, not only scientifically and accurately implement epidemic prevention measures, but also be full of warmth to the masses, solve practical difficulties, and resolutely prevent "simplification" and "one size fits all", so that the masses can spend a healthy, happy and peaceful life. Spring Festival.

The local epidemic shows local sporadic distribution, and the overall stability remains stable

　　He Qinghua, a first-level inspector of the National Health Commission's Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, said that at present, the local epidemic situation in my country is sporadic, but the overall epidemic situation has remained stable. in the process of disposal.

　　The epidemics in Henan, Guangdong and other provinces have gradually entered the final stage, and basically the risk of community infection has been effectively controlled within an incubation period.

　　Recently, the newly discovered epidemic in Hebei District of Tianjin is related to the previous local epidemic in Jinnan District, which was caused by accidental exposure to infection during the centralized isolation period.

　　The clustered epidemic in the border areas of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, has a limited scope and has been effectively controlled in a short period of time.

　　The related epidemic that occurred in Fengtai, Beijing on January 18 spread to 5 provinces including Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and Liaoning. The chain of transmission between cases was generally clear, the upward trend of the epidemic was initially curbed, and the risk of community spread was reduced. During the critical period of prevention and control, risk personnel investigation and control measures are being carried out in an orderly manner.

　　In the outbreak that occurred in Horgos, Xinjiang on the 23rd, the virus sequencing result was a variant of Omicron. The epidemic involved a wide range of occupations, and a certain degree of community transmission had occurred in the local area.

At present, there are no signs of the spread of the epidemic.

　　Those infected with the epidemic in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang on January 25 all have clear epidemiological correlations, the transmission chain is relatively clear, and there is still a risk of community spread of the epidemic in the local area.

　　The sequencing result of the outbreak virus that occurred in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on the 26th was a variant of Omicron, and the cases were mainly concentrated in Hangzhou.

　　Scattered spillover cases have been found in Hubei, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Henan. At present, the scope of the epidemic is relatively limited, and the transmission chain is generally clear. The epidemic is still in the stage of rapid development, and various prevention and control work such as risk area management and spillover risk group investigation are being accelerated.

Data map: Xi'an Railway Station conducts nucleic acid tests for arriving passengers.

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Strive to control the risk of community infection transmission within an incubation period

　　He Qinghua introduced that the Spring Festival holiday is approaching. Recently, some scattered and clustered epidemics occurred in some parts of the country. Some of them have been organized and extinguished in a strong and orderly manner, but some still have a certain degree of spillover risk and spread risk. Epidemic prevention and control The pressure of the situation is still severe and complex.

In order to ensure the overall stability of the national epidemic situation during the Spring Festival, the National Health and Health Commission will focus on strengthening guidance to resolutely and decisively handle the epidemic in the places where the epidemic occurs.

Instruct Tianjin, Henan, Guangdong and other regions that have recently experienced clustered epidemics and have entered the tailing stage to concentrate efforts to achieve a complete elimination of the epidemic.

Guidance and support to Beijing, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other places where new outbreaks have occurred recently, to carry out strict response and disposal, resolutely control the spread of the epidemic, and strive to control the transmission risk of community infection within an incubation period.

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