(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Beijing has reported 12 cases of infection in the past 5 days
China News Agency, Beijing, August 19 (Reporter Du Yan) Currently, Beijing is at the peak of returning to Beijing during the summer vacation.
Since August 15, Beijing has reported a total of 12 local new coronary pneumonia virus infections, of which 4 were infected by trains on the way to and from Beijing.
Beijing requires that teachers and students from primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and nursery institutions can return to school (gardens) after 7 days in Beijing.
This is what the reporter learned from the press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia in Beijing held on the 19th.
Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced at the press conference that from 0:00 to 15:00 on August 19, Beijing discovered 2 new cases of infection among the people entering and returning to Beijing, 1 case of mild infection and 1 case of asymptomatic infection; They are all quarantine observers who have arrived in Beijing by train.
Liu Xiaofeng said that since August 15, a total of 12 infected people have been reported in Beijing. After epidemiological investigation and gene sequencing, it was initially determined that 4 of the infected people were infected by train on the way to and from Beijing.
He reminded the public not to travel or go on business trips to medium and high-risk areas and areas where confirmed cases are reported, strengthen personal protection at all times on the way to and from Beijing, wear masks during the whole process when taking transportation, minimize contact with others, and reduce the risk of infection.
"Beijing's pressure of 'foreign defense import, internal defense rebound' has increased significantly compared with the previous period, and the capital's epidemic prevention and control cannot tolerate any slack." Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Government, said at the press conference that since August, Beijing has discovered seven cases. Related epidemics outside Beijing and two related closed-loop personnel epidemics outside Beijing.
Since August 15, Beijing has reported 4 cases of infection on trains. All of them voluntarily reported and consciously took epidemic prevention measures. They were placed under control as soon as possible, reducing the risk of transmission.
He emphasized that Beijing should pay close attention to the risk of importation from epidemic-related areas, and strictly manage the epidemic prevention when entering and returning to Beijing.
Civil aviation and railway departments should strengthen remote verification and screening in accordance with epidemic prevention policies, and do a good job in in-transit epidemic prevention management.
It is necessary to strengthen the epidemic prevention management of self-driving tours, strictly abide by the policy of entering and returning to Beijing, and choose the destination carefully.
At the same time, it is necessary to control the risk points and strictly prevent the import of overseas epidemics.
Do a good job in the standardized management of entry centralized medical observation points to strictly prevent cross-infection.
Beijing is about to usher in the school season.
Xu Hejian pointed out that it is necessary to do a good job in the epidemic prevention work of returning to school in the autumn. Teachers and students of primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and nursery institutions can only return to schools (gardens) after 7 days in Beijing.
Xu Hejian said that Beijing should fight new outbreaks as soon as they emerge, and act quickly to block the chain of transmission and keep the bottom line of preventing large-scale outbreaks.
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