Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 8th: Strictly prevent epidemic input and rectify “layers of overweight” – the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council responds to the focus of epidemic prevention and control
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wen Jinghua and Peng Yunjia
Recently, the epidemic prevention and control situation in my country is still severe, and the overseas epidemic has rebounded significantly. What is the latest epidemic situation in my country? How to scientifically and accurately do a good job in port epidemic prevention and control? What new progress has been made in rectifying issues such as “layers of overweight” in epidemic prevention and control? The Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the 8th to respond to key concerns.
Omicron BA.5 subclade is becoming a major global epidemic strain
Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health and Health Commission, said that at present, the global epidemic continues to rebound, and China’s foreign defense import pressure is increasing. The BA.5 subclade of Omicron is becoming the main epidemic strain in the world, and it has caused a local clustered epidemic in my country, and the prevention and control situation is severe and complicated.
“On the whole, the local new coronary pneumonia epidemic in June showed a fluctuating downward trend, and the epidemic rebounded in some areas in early July.” Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the National Health Commission’s Bureau of Disease Control and first-level inspector, said that recently, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi and other places have successively reported local epidemics caused by imported cases of BA.5 mutants, and China’s foreign defense import pressure continues to increase.
On July 5, at a nucleic acid sampling site in Liyuan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City, a citizen was carrying out nucleic acid sampling.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo
Lei Zhenglong said that all localities should earnestly implement the “four-party responsibilities” of epidemic prevention and control, take the “four early” measures, strictly prevent imported cases from causing local epidemics, improve the emergency response capabilities of local clustered epidemics, and timely contain and block social situations. Communication, coordinating epidemic prevention and control and social and economic development.
“The comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council has deployed all localities to further strengthen the import of foreign defense, strengthen the closed-loop management of personnel in high-risk positions at ports, prevent risks such as inbound items and passenger aircraft, isolate and control inbound personnel, and prevent and control the epidemic in port cities.” Lei Zheng Long said.
Scientific and accurate prevention and control of port epidemics
Recently, economic and trade and personnel exchanges at home and abroad have resumed in an orderly manner. How can we make it easier for people to travel while strictly implementing the requirements for epidemic prevention and control? Kong Fanwei, deputy director of the Flight Standards Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, said that the Civil Aviation Administration continued to refine the prevention and control measures of all parties, and at the same time, improved efficiency and reduced the waiting time of passengers at the airport.
Li Zhengliang, deputy director of the Department of Health and Quarantine of the General Administration of Customs, introduced that on the basis of strictly doing a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic at ports, the customs further optimized the sampling and testing work of inbound personnel, and changed the original sampling and testing requirements of “double sampling and double inspection” for inbound personnel. It is optimized to “apheresis test” only for oropharyngeal swabs, and the test requirements for new crown blood samples for entry personnel are cancelled.
On June 15, a container ship loads and unloads containers at the Qianwan Port of Qingdao Port, Shandong Port.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziheng
At the same time, optimize the boarding and control ratio of inbound cargo aircraft, the prevention and control measures for the new crown pneumonia epidemic of imported goods, and the closed management system for staff in high-risk positions in the customs.
Li Zhengliang introduced that in order to effectively prevent the risk of importing cold-chain food from the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, customs across the country have further strengthened source control, optimized monitoring and testing, and strictly supervised the preventive disinfection at ports.
Multiple departments have opened channels for collecting clues about “Nine Prohibitions”
In response to the “one-size-fits-all” and “layer-by-layer overweight” problems in the epidemic prevention and control work in various places that affect the normal production and life of the masses, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council has previously required all localities to further improve the scientific, accurate and targeted prevention and control measures. , and resolutely achieve “nine forbids”.
“At present, the 12 member units of the comprehensive team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council have set up channels for collecting clues to problems through the department’s portal website or publishing the complaint telephone number.” Supervision by the National Health and Health Commission Cheng Youquan, deputy director of the bureau, introduced that 31 provinces across the country and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have also established channels to collect clues to problems.
On July 1, in the security check area of Zhuzhou Railway Station, passengers passed the security check through face recognition.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Sihan
He said that if the masses encounter problems such as simplification of epidemic prevention and control, “one size fits all” and “layers of overweight”, they can complain through relevant departments or local websites or telephones. All relevant departments and provinces will transfer the office in a timely manner, and follow up and supervise the local area to effectively solve the problems reported by the masses.
“From June 28 to July 6 at 24:00, nearly 14,000 messages were received on the public message board of the National Health Commission’s website to implement the ‘nine prohibitions’ for epidemic prevention and control,” Cheng Youquan said.
In the next stage, the National Health and Health Commission will continue to promote the special rectification work, and continue to do a good job in clue collection, transfer verification, follow-up supervision, and notification exposure according to the working mechanism of the rectification “layer-by-layer” special class.