China News Service, May 23. The State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference on the 23rd. Li Zhengliang, deputy director of the Department of Health and Quarantine of the General Administration of Customs, said at the meeting that recently, children with unexplained acute severe hepatitis, yellow fever, cholera and When the epidemic broke out in many countries, the customs organized experts to conduct risk assessments in a timely manner, issued announcements and warnings, and deployed customs across the country to strengthen entry health and quarantine work at ports.
At the same time, strengthen multi-departmental joint prevention and control, strictly prevent the risk of imported epidemics, and prevent the superposition of epidemics.
A reporter asked at the meeting: At present, the transmission rate of the new coronavirus variant strain has increased significantly. Once it is introduced into China, it can be imagined that the scale of the epidemic will be larger than before. "How can the customs further reduce the risk of epidemic importation?
In this regard, Li Zhengliang said that at present, the global epidemic is still at a high level, and the virus is still mutating.
The General Administration of Customs strictly follows the unified requirements of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, and unswervingly adheres to the general strategy of "foreign defense against imports, internal defense against rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic clearing". Accurately do a good job in port epidemic prevention and control.
The main measures are as follows:
The first is to continue to strictly control entry health and quarantine.
Strictly follow the regulations to carry out health declaration card verification, temperature monitoring, medical inspection, sampling and testing, and handover and disposal for inbound personnel.
Conscientiously do a good job in the boarding and quarantine of inbound vehicles such as aircraft and ships, strictly supervise the implementation of terminal disinfection of inbound passenger aircraft; strictly implement the health and quarantine measures at land ports, and support local promotion of non-contact cargo handover such as drop, connection, and hoisting. mode, carry out key prevention and control and precise quarantine for key personnel such as cross-border train and truck drivers and border residents; strengthen communication and cooperation with relevant local departments, improve cooperation mechanisms such as personnel handover, information notification, and case tracing, to ensure that the entire chain of inbound personnel is closed. manage.
The second is to strengthen the monitoring and detection of new coronavirus variants.
In accordance with the requirements of the "Four Mornings", the customs closely monitors the latest situation of overseas epidemics, virus mutations, and prevention and control measures in key countries and regions, comprehensively conducts research and judgments on inbound personnel and vehicles from countries and regions where the new variant of the new coronavirus is endemic, and strengthens targeted measures. measure.
At the same time, we will continue to improve laboratory testing capabilities, strengthen the whole genome sequencing of positive samples of immigrants, and promptly notify relevant departments of the discovery of new coronavirus variants.
The third is to continue to do a good job of "multi-disease prevention".
The customs give full play to the role of the global epidemic monitoring network and pay close attention to the global epidemic information.
Recently, outbreaks of acute severe hepatitis, yellow fever, cholera and other epidemics in children with unknown causes have broken out in many countries. The customs timely organized experts to carry out risk assessment, issued announcements and warning notices, and deployed customs across the country to strengthen entry health and quarantine work at ports.
At the same time, strengthen multi-departmental joint prevention and control, strictly prevent the risk of imported epidemics, and prevent the superposition of epidemics.
The fourth is to strictly protect the safety of front-line staff at the port.
Resolutely implement the requirements of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council on the safety protection of staff in high-risk positions, and strictly implement the safety protection supervision system of "pre-job inspection, work inspection, and full-process supervision", and the port quarantine personnel who directly contact inbound personnel and goods shall be strictly enforced. , strictly implement personal safety protection, strictly implement closed management, and dynamically maintain full coverage of enhanced immunization for front-line customs staff.
Li Zhengliang also said that in the next step, the General Administration of Customs will continue to pay attention to the development trend of overseas epidemics. According to the unified deployment of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, it will dynamically optimize and improve port quarantine measures, strengthen joint prevention and control, and jointly protect the gates of the country.