China News Agency, Beijing, January 6th (Ma Shuaisha) The 40-day Spring Festival travel season will kick off on January 7th. This is the first Spring Festival travel season after the new crown was infected with "Class B and B tubes".
Against the backdrop of changes in the epidemic situation and adjustments to prevention and control policies, public travel needs will be released during the Spring Festival holiday.
How will the peak flow of people during the Spring Festival travel superimposed the peak of the epidemic situation affect the trend of the epidemic?
How do localities deploy rural epidemic prevention and control and medical treatment?
On January 6, in Nanjing, Jiangsu, passengers travel at the railway station.
The 2023 Spring Festival Transport starts on January 7 and ends on February 15, a total of 40 days.
According to the preliminary analysis and judgment of the Ministry of Transport of China, the total passenger flow during the Spring Festival travel season is about 2.095 billion.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
The most difficult and challenging Spring Festival in recent years
With the accelerated implementation of the "Class B and B Management" measures, the rapid release of cross-regional personnel flows, and the accumulated travel needs of the people in the past three years of the epidemic, such as returning home for the New Year, visiting relatives and friends, and sightseeing, will be released in a concentrated manner. The Spring Festival travel passenger flow will run from a long-term low level. to a quick recovery climb.
According to preliminary research and judgment, the total passenger flow during the Spring Festival travel season was about 2.095 billion, an increase of 99.5% over the same period last year, and returned to 70.3% of the same period in 2019.
Wan Xiangdong, chief pilot of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said that according to the current situation of passenger bookings during the Spring Festival travel season, the peak bookings occurred from January 18 (the 27th of the twelfth lunar month) to January 20 (the 29th of the twelfth lunar month) ).
During the Spring Festival travel period, the national civil aviation will arrange an average of 11,000 passenger flights per day, which is about 73% of the 2019 Spring Festival travel period.
At present, the preparations for the Spring Festival travel are basically in place.
Xu Chengguang, vice minister of the Ministry of Transport, said that compared with previous years, this year's Spring Festival travel rush peaked with the peak of the epidemic, and it was the Spring Festival travel rush with the most uncertainty, the most complicated situation, and the greatest challenges in recent years. increase, the risk of infection among front-line personnel is greater, and the hidden dangers of production safety are increasing.
Xu Chengguang emphasized that it is difficult to rely on the experience of previous years and the operation rules of the Spring Festival for analysis and judgment due to the superimposition of various uncertain factors in the Spring Festival travel this year.
The current forecasts on the total passenger flow, composition, and flow direction are based on the current situation and situation. The purpose is to think more about difficulties, make preparations more practical, and improve service according to the bottom-line thinking and extreme scenarios. Do better.
The special class for Spring Festival travel work will closely follow up, conduct dynamic research and judgment, and optimize and adjust the Spring Festival travel work in a timely manner.
On January 6, the Information Office of the State Council of China held a press conference in Beijing to introduce the situation of making every effort to ensure the service guarantee of the Spring Festival Transport, and answered questions from reporters.
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The epidemic situation in many places has entered a platform period and rural areas need to focus on
Recently, many places have reported that the epidemic has entered a plateau.
The epidemic situation in Beijing has slowed down, and the shortage of medicines has been alleviated, but the work tasks in outpatient and emergency departments and the treatment of critically ill patients are still arduous; the epidemic situation in Guizhou has reached the peak of the epidemic and entered a plateau, and the number of infected people will gradually decline; It seems that the peak period of infection in Chongqing has passed; according to the comprehensive research and judgment of the results of online surveys, the peak of infection incidence in Sichuan Province has passed, and it is currently in a critical period of preventing severe diseases and reducing deaths.
"Judging from the current situation, the (infection) peaks in many cities have almost passed. The Spring Festival travel will increase the chance of infection, but don't worry too much about a second wave of epidemic peaks. Next, focus on remote rural villages and towns." Zhejiang University School of Medicine Qiu Yunqing, executive vice president of the First Affiliated Hospital, said.
Tang Xuefeng, a researcher at the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also believes that the epidemic may rebound slightly due to the wave of returning home and returning to work around the Spring Festival.
Medical resources in rural areas are relatively weak. During the New Year's Day and Spring Festival, a large number of urban people returning to their hometowns may promote the emergence of epidemic peaks mainly in rural areas, resulting in severe illness and peak deaths.
Therefore, epidemic prevention and control and medical treatment in rural areas are the top priority of the current work.
On January 6, in Nanjing, Jiangsu, passengers travel at the railway station.
The 2023 Spring Festival Transport starts on January 7 and ends on February 15, a total of 40 days.
According to the preliminary analysis and judgment of the Ministry of Transport of China, the total passenger flow during the Spring Festival travel season is about 2.095 billion.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
Detailed deployment of rural epidemic prevention and control in many places
Facing the new challenges of epidemic prevention and control under the influence of the Spring Festival travel, all localities have made arrangements.
Sichuan Province issued 13 guidelines to guide the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic in rural areas by "moving the gate forward", requiring personnel to conduct screening actions, improve the accounts of key groups, continuously monitor the health status of key groups, and smooth access to medical referrals.
Shanxi Province has strengthened the protection of key medical supplies for epidemic prevention and control in rural areas, and provided free basic fever-reducing drugs to rural areas of the province. Before January 7, all administrative villages and natural villages in the province have been fully covered with drugs, and people can go to village clinics to get them for free 6 Tablets of ibuprofen or acetaminophen can effectively meet the medication needs of people with fever and ensure a smooth passage through the peak of the epidemic.
On January 6, Beijing issued a work plan for the prevention and control of new coronavirus infection in rural areas, requiring the development of epidemic risk assessment and early warning in rural areas, and the prevention and control of people in rural areas, especially the elderly with underlying diseases, pregnant women, children and other high-risk groups. Health monitoring and hierarchical classification management.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs also issued a proposal on the same day, advocating personal protection on the way back home, gathering as little as possible after returning home, having fewer meals, wearing a mask when visiting the elderly, keeping an appropriate distance, and delaying returning home during the infection period.
Weddings and weddings should be kept as simple as possible to avoid grandiose arrangements. It is recommended to pay New Year’s greetings through phone calls and WeChat greetings, and to go to crowded places such as temple fairs, lantern festivals, markets, and chess and card rooms. You must obey the local epidemic prevention and control arrangements, and reduce gatherings when the epidemic is severe. Activities to prevent the rapid spread of the epidemic.
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