"External defense input" has become the top priority of my country's current epidemic prevention and control.
According to the National Health Commission, on March 16, 20 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were newly confirmed in provinces and cities outside Hubei, all imported from abroad.
Since the first imported case was discovered on February 26, as of 12:00 noon on the 17th, there have been 144 imported cases in 31 provinces and cities across the country. As the new crown pneumonia epidemic spreads around the world, preventing overseas imports has become the focus of my country's current epidemic prevention and control.
Gansu has the largest number of imported confirmed cases, and Iran and Italy are the main source countries.
A reporter from China Economic Weekly combed through the confirmed cases notified by the health commissions of various provinces and cities in the past few days. As of 12:00 on the 17th, a total of 144 imported cases have been reported nationwide. . Among them, Gansu, Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong have the most inbound cases, with 42 cases, 40 cases, 20 cases, 15 cases and 14 cases respectively, accounting for 90% of the imported cases nationwide.
To date, 80% of imported cases have come from Iran, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. These countries are also the countries with the most severe global epidemic situation. As of March 16, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Iran has reached 14,991, which is the fastest-growing country in Asia; the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Italy has reached 27,980, with 2,158 deaths, the highest death rate in the world.
Judging from the notifications of various provinces and cities, the situation in Gansu Province is the most serious. There are currently 42 imported cases, of which 37 are from Iran, 4 are from Saudi Arabia, and 1 is from Egypt.
Why are there so many confirmed cases from Iran in Gansu?
Judging from the currently published data, the imported cases in Gansu are mainly from 311 people who returned from Iran in early March. Most of them took the two commercial chartered flights on March 4 and March 5. According to Guo Yufen, director of the Gansu Provincial Health Commission, most of the passengers returning to Gansu by chartered flights were Chinese students studying in Iran, as well as teachers, children and other personnel. From the perspective of where the personnel belong, they are from 24 provinces across the country, 59 of whom are from Gansu. According to the latest data from
, since mid-March, among the 311 Iranian chartered flights to Gansu, there have been no new confirmed cases for many days. At present, 180 close contacts have been traced and medical isolation measures have been taken.
With the increasingly severe global epidemic, more and more overseas Chinese choose to return to their country for temporary refuge. At present, the newly imported cases in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou have shown an increasing trend.
Airport hubs take strict precautions and enter the first pass.
The data released by the National Immigration Administration show that since March 11, the WHO announced the "global pandemic" of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the National Land, Sea and Air Port Entry Day With an average of 120,000 person-times, a total of more than 67,000 immigrants with a history of travel in countries and regions with severe epidemics abroad were found.
Faced with a severe situation of prevention and control, how do you know which immigrants are at risk? The
reporter learned that the risk investigation of immigrants began on the plane. Starting from March 4, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has implemented hierarchical control of inbound flights. According to the three factors of the origin of the flight, the flight load factor, and the flight time, the flight risk is divided into three levels: high, medium and low. Among them, flights from countries where the number of confirmed cases of the origin is more than 1,000 and the flight time is longer than 8 hours are considered high-risk flights. According to the guidelines issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, for high-risk flights, flight attendants will minimize the on-board service process, manage passengers in different areas, arrange passengers to sit separately, and reserve emergency incident handling isolation in the last three rows of each flight Area. Even low-risk flight passengers need to undergo temperature testing, reasonably arrange the cabin layout, and reduce the flow of people.
Since the beginning of March, domestic aviation hubs such as Beijing Capital International Airport, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport have made a series of arrangements to strictly prevent foreign imports, including arranging special gates and bridges, Move forward the gates by zone and classification, strictly check passenger information, and take measures such as passenger connection and transportation, and resolutely guard the first line of defense.
Since March 13, all international inbound flights at Daxing Airport have been transferred to the Capital Airport for operation. The Capital Airport has already put T3-D original commercial mealsDrink shops, etc. were removed and transformed into a temporary disposal area. Anti-epidemic inspections, baggage claim, transit rest, and zoning transportation of entry personnel are all carried out here.
has been stationed at the New China National Exhibition in recent days. The staff responsible for the epidemic prevention of immigration personnel in a certain province told the reporter of China Economic Weekly that after Beijing immigration personnel disembark from the plane, they must undergo strict entry epidemic prevention inspections. If there is an abnormal situation, the airport will be directly sent to the designated medical institution for treatment. Passengers with no abnormalities will go to the New China National Exhibition Passenger Connecting Area, and will be transported to the centralized observation point of their place by special vehicles by the reception staff of the provinces and cities stationed there for a 14-day quarantine inspection.
Previously, Beijing Ditan Hospital was responsible for the screening of people who need to be screened, suspected cases, and light and common confirmed patients from abroad (returning) to Beijing. On the afternoon of March 16, the entry screening personnel were sent to the newly launched Xiaotangshan Hospital. According to the latest news released by the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, 7 hours after the start, Xiaotangshan Hospital has received 35 immigrants screened from the airport, and a woman from the UK has been diagnosed.
The staff of the above-mentioned New International Exhibition said that after the information has not been screened out, the foreign immigrants who have not screened the information boarding at the reception desks of the new National Exhibition will be transported to the destination city by the provinces and cities. Epidemic prevention personnel will try their best to implement closed-loop management during the transportation process, adopting a "point-to-point, one-stop" transportation method to avoid the risk of epidemic spread caused by contact with other personnel.
"The number of immigrants has increased significantly in the past few days. The average number of immigrants in our province is five to six hundred per day. It's crazy," said the staff member. The reporter learned that the capital airport disposal area was only used to stop inbound flights from countries with severe epidemics. However, with the increasing shortage of return tickets, some people returning from areas with severe epidemics adopted the method of transferring back to their countries. Starting from March 15th, all international and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan inbound flights at the Capital Airport will stop at the T3D disposal area of the Capital Airport. Starting at 0:00 on the 16th, all overseas personnel entering Beijing should in principle be transferred to a centralized observation point for 14 days of quarantine observation.
concealing the condition and entering the country will be convicted and punished for the crime of obstructing frontier health and quarantine
to prevent the import of cases, and the penalties are also increasing. On the morning of March 16, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice, and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening Frontier Health and Quarantine Work in Punishment of Crimes Obstructing Frontier Health and Quarantine in accordance with the law," and proposed six possible convictions Penalty acts that hinder frontier health and quarantine.
Up to now, Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, Ningxia, Gansu and other provinces have reported incidents in which confirmed cases of imported new coronary pneumonia have been investigated by the police, involving more than 10 immigrants.
At the press conference of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism on March 16, Wang Jun, Director of the Policy and Regulations Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that some immigrants were lucky enough to resort to various means to refuse to declare or not to truthfully declare their health status. , Does not cooperate with body temperature monitoring; some immigrants knowing that they have developed fever, dry cough and other symptoms of the epidemic, or have been to areas with severe epidemics, deliberately concealing their illness and overseas travel history.
"Some people even took anti-fever medicines to lower their body temperature, concealed fever symptoms, passed the customs sanitation and quarantine, and were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia after entering the country, which caused people in close contact with them to be infected or isolated for observation, giving public health safety Cause a major risk." Wang Jun said that in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law, combined with the opinions just released, the above-mentioned actions can be convicted and punished for the crime of "obstructing border health and quarantine."
On March 16, according to a report from Ping An Beijing, the imported case Li, who returned to Beijing with his family from the United States, took medicines to reduce fever, and lied continuously on the plane, has been investigated by the Shunyi Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau for the crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Li has lived in the United States for a long time. At the end of February, a colleague who attended a company meeting in the United States was diagnosed as a confirmed case. Beginning on March 1, Li already had fever, cough and other symptoms. After seeing a doctor, he applied for nucleic acid testing three times and was rejected. For further diagnosis and treatment, Li, her husband, and his son's family of three took off from Los Angeles at 1:00 local time on the 12th, and arrived at Beijing Capital Airport at 5:00 on the 13th, Beijing time. Before taking the flight, Li had taken fever-reducing drugs to cover up his fever, and he had not truthfully reported his illness and the fact that his husband and son were traveling with the flight attendants, posing a risk of infection to fellow passengers.
On March 16, Li's husband Hong who came back on the same planeXX was diagnosed. On the same day, Li was placed on file.
Source: China Economic Week
