Original title: National Health and Medical Commission: It is not allowed to arbitrarily prohibit non-local people from returning to their hometowns for Chinese New Year
On January 29, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the epidemic prevention and control work during the festival.
Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Medical Commission, introduced that the Spring Festival is approaching. In order to ensure the safe and orderly flow of personnel during the Spring Festival travel period, the comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council at the press conference on December 18, 2021, has issued a series of measures to personnel in medium and high-risk areas. Travel, people going to medium and high-risk areas, people in high-risk positions traveling, people with fever, health code “yellow code” and other personnel management, nucleic acid testing, etc., put forward clear requirements.
Mi Feng said that recently, the National Health and Health Commission noticed that there were media reports and social platforms that some people encountered problems with returning to their hometowns. Some places have made policy adjustments, but in some places, there are still situations such as “people in low-risk areas are not allowed to return to their hometowns”, “compulsory people who return to their hometowns are required to be quarantined at their own expense”, and “arbitrarily extending the length of centralized quarantine and home health monitoring”, etc. strong.
In this regard, 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 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.
Mi Feng introduced,The Comprehensive Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council has opened a public message board on the “Road to Hometown during the Spring Festival” today, 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 here, and we will carefully verify and urge rectification.
Mi Feng said that all localities should 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 Spring Festival.