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Spring Festival is approaching, how to guard against Omicron?The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism responds to key issues

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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 15th. Question: Spring Festival is approaching, how to guard against Omikron?The State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism responds to key issues

Xinhua News Agency reporters Dong Ruifeng and Gu Tiancheng

As the Spring Festival is approaching, the epidemic situation in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province has entered the final stage, and the epidemic situation in Tianjin is still developing, but the risk of spillover is gradually reduced. Although my country’s epidemic prevention and control situation is severe, it is generally stable and all parties are taking strict precautions.

How to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control during Spring Festival travel and campus winter vacation? How to prevent Omicron? The press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held on the 15th authoritatively responded to these key issues.

What is the overall situation of epidemic prevention?The epidemic in some areas can be controlled in a short period of time

“Since January, the daily number of newly confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the world has exceeded 3.5 million. At present, my country is facing the double challenge of imported epidemics of Delta and Omicron strains.” said Mi Feng, a spokesman for the National Health and Health Commission. , the Spring Festival is about to start, the flow and gathering of people have increased significantly, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control in my country is grim.

He Qinghua, a first-level inspector of the National Health Commission’s Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that despite the severe epidemic prevention and control situation, the local clustered epidemics in some parts of my country can be effectively controlled in a short period of time, and the overall situation of the epidemic is still stable. .

According to reports, the local Omicron cluster epidemic in Tianjin has spread to Anyang City, Henan Province and Dalian City, Liaoning Province. The epidemic is still developing, but the risk of epidemic spillover is gradually reduced; the epidemic in Anyang, Henan still has a certain risk of community transmission ; The epidemic in Xi’an, Shaanxi has entered the final stage, and strict prevention is still required.

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In addition, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Guangdong, and Shanghai recently reported local cases, which were found to be Omicron infection through gene sequencing. Some infected people have more social activity trajectories, and there is a risk of community infection spread.

He Qinghua said that the comprehensive group of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council has recently sent an additional working group to Tianjin to guide the local epidemic handling. The National Health and Health Commission will continue to pay attention to the epidemic situation in various places, comprehensively strengthen the investigation of risk personnel, strengthen epidemic monitoring and early warning and normalized prevention and control during the Spring Festival, and improve the ability of early detection of epidemic prevention. Let’s work together to ensure that the people live a happy and peaceful Spring Festival.

On January 15, in Tianjin, the staff were registering for nucleic acid testing. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fanyue)

How to do a good job of epidemic prevention during the Spring Festival?Transportation departments and colleges and universities make emergency plans

College students have begun to return to their hometowns one after another, and the Spring Festival is about to kick off. How to do the work of “communication” and “control”? The transportation sector and the education sector made early deployments.

Zhou Min, deputy director of the Emergency Response Office of the Ministry of Transport, introduced that in the face of the recent local outbreaks of clustered epidemics in many places across the country, the transportation departments must not only prevent the spread of the epidemic through transportation links, but also do a good job in transportation emergency support.

“Judging from the current Spring Festival ticket pre-sale situation, the basic travel needs of the railway Spring Festival travel in 2022, such as student flow, work flow, and family visit flow, will still maintain a certain scale.” Zhu Wenzhong, deputy director of the passenger transportation department of China National Railway Group, said that China National Railway Group will start from Fully arrange transportation capacity, strengthen passenger transportation organization, strict prevention and control measures, and improve emergency plans to ensure the dual needs of passenger railway travel during the Spring Festival and epidemic prevention and control.

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Han Guangzu, director of the Flight Standards Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, introduced that the Civil Aviation Administration encourages airlines to flexibly allocate capacity, make overall arrangements for overtime and temporary flight operations, and meet the travel needs of passengers in a timely manner. At the same time, all airlines are required to closely track the epidemic situation in some parts of the country, and cooperate with the prevention and control requirements to do a good job in ticket refund and change services.

College students are densely populated, and winter vacation returns cover all parts of the country in urban and rural areas. Epidemic prevention and control has its own characteristics. If emergency response to epidemic prevention and control is to be made, more close cooperation is needed between universities and territories.

“Once an epidemic occurs in colleges and universities and closed management is implemented, it will involve a large number of teachers and students in the school’s daily necessities and epidemic prevention and control materials reserves.” Wang Dengfeng, director of the Department of Sports, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, said, therefore, it is necessary to effectively implement normalized epidemic prevention and control. Control various measures, do emergency drills, check and supervise various measures in a timely manner. To ensure that in the event of an epidemic, the school can launch emergency plans in a timely manner and strengthen humanistic care.

On January 13, employees of the Changsha Depot of Guangzhou Railway Group inspected the train. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhenhai)

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How to prevent Omicron?All localities will dynamically adjust and improve prevention and control measures

Up to now, more than 10 provinces in China have reported imported cases of Omicron, and Tianjin, Henan, Beijing and other places have reported local confirmed cases. From a global perspective, Omicron has spread in more than 150 countries and regions around the world, and has become a major epidemic strain in some countries and regions.

He Qinghua said that the National Health and Health Commission will pay close attention to and track the global trend of new coronavirus variants, including Omicron, and strengthen research on the transmissibility, pathogenicity, and impact of vaccine immunity of related variants. Analyze and assess the risk of imported transmission, guide localities to dynamically adjust and improve epidemic prevention and control measures based on the assessment, and resolutely defend the hard-won results of epidemic prevention and control.

Specifically, in terms of foreign import prevention, firstly, strictly implement the whole-process closed-loop management of inbound personnel; secondly, strictly control personnel in high-risk positions who come into contact with inbound personnel’s articles and the environment; thirdly, increase the proportion of random inspections of relevant inbound articles; Measures such as terminal disinfection of inbound aircraft.

In terms of internal rebound prevention, the first is to continue to carry out monitoring and early warning of key groups, key places and key units; the second is to continue to promote the vaccination of the new crown virus vaccine; the third is to continue to guide the public to adhere to daily health protection, including regular ventilation and wearing masks. , wash hands frequently, etc.; Fourth, quickly deal with every sporadic or clustered epidemic that occurs, effectively curb the further spread and spread of the epidemic.

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