During the Spring Festival journey, have you completed these protective tasks?
Experts from the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention remind: Wear a mask throughout the process, do a good job of personal health monitoring during the journey, and wash your hands, face, and clothes in time after returning home
Cartoon/Yu Ningshan
Changsha Evening News full media reporter, Yang Yunlong
The Spring Festival of 2021 is getting closer and closer to us. Although many people choose to celebrate the New Year on the spot, the personal flow is inevitable.
Under the current epidemic prevention and control situation, how to reduce the risk of travel? In the face of the possibility of relatively concentrated flow of people today and tomorrow, Liu Fuqiang, director of the Emergency Office of the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, reminded that passengers should wear masks throughout the process; minimize the number of meals on public transportation; do a good job of personal health monitoring on the journey; after returning home, wash your hands, face and clothes in time.
Before traveling, prepare masks, disinfection products and negative nucleic acid test certificates
Liu Fuqiang said that according to the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Local Chinese New Year Service Guarantee Work" issued by the Central Office and the State Office, the people in high-risk epidemic areas should celebrate the New Year on the spot, minimize the personal flow, and prevent the spread of the epidemic due to the personal flow; People in medium-risk areas celebrate the New Year on the spot in principle, and those who need to travel under special circumstances need to be approved by the local epidemic prevention and control agency; low-risk areas advocate the masses to celebrate the New Year on the spot, and do not travel if necessary. Although many people choose to celebrate the New Year on the spot this year, there are still not a few homecoming wanderers who are eager to reunite with their families, and the personal flow is inevitable. If you travel, you should always take good personal protection, such as wearing a mask, washing your hands frequently, and using one-meter noodles.
Droplets produced when coughing, speaking, and sneezing are the transmission carriers of many viruses. Carriages, stations, service areas, and other places are crowded places, and wearing masks can effectively isolate droplets. It should be reminded that it is recommended to prepare a few more masks when you go out, so that you need to change the masks in case of emergencies or long journeys.
Contact transmission is the mode of transmission of the virus, and it is crucial to maintain hand hygiene. When taking public transportation, you must pay attention to hand hygiene. If there is no hand washing condition, you should prepare 75% alcohol hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes and other products before traveling, so as to better sterilize and disinfect. In addition, you should carry some garbage bags to carry contaminants during the trip. For example, you can also use used masks to hold vomit when you vomit on the way.
There is also one of the most special and important "baggage" on the way back home this year, which is the negative certificate of COVID-19 virus nucleic acid test. The negative certificate of COVID-19 virus nucleic acid test can be a paper report, or you can find your own nucleic acid test results on the national government service platform. " Winter and spring rural areas COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control work plan is clear: inter-provincial returnees, returnees from cities where medium and high-risk areas are located in the province (internal personnel in medium and high-risk areas are not mobile in principle), imported cold chain food practitioners in the province, port direct contact with imported goods practitioners, isolation staff, transportation personnel and other key groups, need to hold a valid COVID-19 virus nucleic acid test within 7 days to return home negative certificate. Holding a negative nucleic acid test certificate does not need to be isolated after returning home, but needs to carry out 14-day home health monitoring, during this period do not gather, do not flow, carry out a nucleic acid test every 7 days. All townships (streets) and administrative villages (neighborhood committees) implement a responsibility system, implement grid management for returning personnel, and do a good job in registering, health monitoring, and handling abnormal conditions.
Take a train or plane, etc., wear a mask throughout the process, and do a good job of personal health monitoring
Trains, planes, buses, etc. are the means of transportation that many people take when returning to their hometowns. These public transportation vehicles are densely populated and relatively closed in space. Problems such as passengers walking around casually and wearing irregular masks bring many hidden dangers to epidemic prevention and control. For example, passengers wearing masks are not standardized, and even take them off or put them in their jaws. Or passengers take off masks to eat and drink. Due to the small seating gap, taking off masks to eat and drink will also increase the risk of virus transmission. For example, in the queuing, ticket checking, etc., individual passengers cannot maintain a one-meter distance; some passengers move around in the train compartment, or even cross the compartment; if the journey time is long, some passengers will gather at the train gate to smoke on the platform before boarding or when the train stops, these factors may increase the risk of virus transmission.
Liu Fuqiang suggested that when taking relatively closed public transportation such as planes, trains, and buses, try to choose online real-name ticket purchases and implement contactless payment; abide by order, queue in an orderly manner, maintain a safe social distance of more than one meter, and avoid waiting in groups; actively cooperate with staff to measure body temperature and take the initiative to declare health status. If there is an abnormal body temperature, you must follow the staff’s arrangement and emergency response; take appropriate seats, sit in separate or scattered places as much as possible to reduce the number of walks; wear a mask throughout the process; disinfect your hands and avoid touching your mouth, nose, eyes, etc. with unclean hands; cover your mouth and nose with elbow clothes when sneezing or coughing; in order to reduce the risk of exposure to yourself and others, try to avoid close contact with others. If you need to chat at close range, be sure to wear a mask; reduce the risk of exposure in public The number of meals on the means of transportation, encourage alternate meals with others; properly keep air tickets, train tickets, bus tickets and other bills to cooperate with the investigation of possible close contacts or epidemic traceability investigation; pay attention to the health status of surrounding passengers, avoid close contact with people with suspicious symptoms such as fever and cough, and do a good job of personal health monitoring during the journey. Once the body temperature is abnormal or suspicious symptoms appear, cooperate with temporary isolation, health investigation, etc.
Take a private car or an online car, etc., ventilate more, and do not stay in the service area for a long time
Many citizens, especially those whose hometown is in the province, will take online car-hailing, taxi or drive a private car home for the Chinese New Year.
Liu Fuqiang said that when choosing online car-hailing, taxis and other means of transportation, passengers should sit in the back row, wear masks throughout the process, do a good job of health registration, and cooperate with body temperature measurement; try not to carpool with others; pay attention to hand cleaning on the way, do not take off the mask when coughing and sneezing, and avoid touching the mouth, nose, eyes, etc. with dirty hands; when conditions permit, open more windows for ventilation. Online car-hailing and taxi drivers should also pay attention to opening windows for ventilation if there are no passengers in the car; regularly disinfect high-frequency contact items, such as door handles, car armrests, seats, seat belts and their sockets.
If citizens drive their private cars back to their hometowns, they should check the condition of the car in advance and fill it up with oil; regularly clean the door handles, armrests in the car, car keys and steering wheels, commonly used buttons, seats, seat belts and their sockets; ventilate the car well; do not turn on the vehicle air conditioner for domestic circulation; do not drive tired, you can rest and adjust properly in the service area, but do not stay in the crowded service area for too long; prepare sufficient food, drinking water, etc. in advance to reduce the number of shopping and meals in the service area; if you need to go to the toilet, shopping, etc., get out of the car and enter the service area and other public places to wear masks, and wash your hands in time, or disinfect your hands with hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, etc.
Liu Fuqiang reminded that before arriving at the destination and entering the house, it is best to clean your hands with running water or hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, etc.; after entering the house, wash your hands and face in time, preferably take a bath, change clothes in time and wash or disinfect. Once symptoms such as fever and cough appear, don’t panic or hide, and report your health truthfully to the village committee (especially rural returnees) or the neighborhood committee where you are located; go to the fever clinic (fever clinic) of a regular hospital in time. Do not take antipyretics, cough medicine, etc. Wear a mask throughout the visit to reduce personal contact.
