How to prevent and control the epidemic situation during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday? How to protect the "vegetable basket"? Authority response

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 3 (Reporter Li Heng, Gu Tiancheng) At present, the epidemic situation in China has shown a steady downward trend, but there are still small fluctuations in some areas. How to prevent and control the epidemic situation during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday? How to ensure the safety and order of mass travel? How to guarantee the "vegetable basket" supply of ordinary people? Experts from the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism recently responded.

  "All localities should coordinate the prevention and control of holiday epidemics and the normal travel needs of the masses, and scientifically guide personnel to travel safely and orderly." Lei Zheng Long, deputy director of the CDC of the National Health and Wellness Commission and a first-class inspector, said that governments at all levels should effectively compact the responsibilities of the four parties, strengthen epidemic monitoring and early warning, and strengthen the allocation of personnel and equipment in key areas such as airports, stations, docks and public transport.

  At the same time, relevant departments should do a good job in ensuring mass travel services, set up nucleic acid detection points reasonably, reduce queuing time and avoid people gathering; Scenic spots should also implement the requirements of "limit, reservation and peak shifting" to scientifically and accurately control the flow of people.

On June 1, citizens took nucleic acid samples at a normalized nucleic acid sampling point on Nanjing West Road in Shanghai. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Fei photo

  Lei Zheng Long suggested that people should arrange their travel time and mode reasonably, know the epidemic risk level and prevention and control policies of the destination in advance, avoid going to high-risk areas, reduce large-scale people gathering activities, and ensure that the epidemic will not spread due to holiday travel.

  "Vegetable basket" products are closely related to the lives of ordinary people and are important livelihood commodities.

  Earlier, the the State Council executive meeting deployed measures to further improve agricultural production in spring to ensure a bumper grain harvest and a stable supply of important agricultural products; The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Health and Health Commission issued the "Guidelines for Coordinating the Prevention and Control of Epidemic Situation in COVID-19 and Agricultural Production in Spring", clarifying that in areas where there is no epidemic situation, it is strictly forbidden to set up checkpoints without authorization, arbitrarily open roads and close villages, and prevent farmers from going to the fields on the grounds of epidemic prevention; Eleven departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission, demand that every effort be made to stabilize the production and supply of "vegetable basket" products, take various measures to unblock the transportation channels of "vegetable basket" products, and make full use of the docking mechanism of "vegetable basket" products & HELIP; …

  On May 20th, merchants carried garlic in Beijing Xinfadi Market. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xin Li photo

  "Looking at all aspects, the current production situation of meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables and fish in China is good, the total supply is sufficient, and the market remains stable, which can fully meet the consumption needs of urban and rural residents." Song Danyang, deputy director of the Department of Market and Information Technology of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and relevant departments have repeatedly dispatched and deployed production urgently, strengthened monitoring and docking, organized key wholesale markets to increase the supply of "vegetable basket" products in Shanghai and Jilin, and mobilized e-commerce enterprises to give priority protection to areas with serious epidemics, and included agricultural products and agricultural production materials in the scope of key transportation materials.

  "Dragon Boat Festival holiday in China ‘ Shopping basket ’ The market supply of products is fully guaranteed and the price is expected to remain basically stable. " Song Danyang said that in the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will work with relevant departments to guide all localities to implement differentiated prevention and control measures, ensure the orderly development of agricultural production, further compact the mayor’s responsibility system of "vegetable basket", and do their best to ensure stable production and supply.

  Vaccination in COVID-19 is the basis of epidemic prevention and control, which can form a better protective barrier.

  As of June 1st, the national cumulative report of vaccination in COVID-19 exceeded 3.38 billion doses. The number of people over 60 years old covered by vaccination reached 230.21 million, 218.252 million people were vaccinated in the whole process, and 169.135 million people were vaccinated.

On May 20th, at the intersection of Huayuan Road and Jinshui Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, citizens vaccinated in the COVID-19 vaccination vehicle. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Jiayu photo

  "The overall vaccination work in COVID-19 is progressing smoothly." Lei Zheng Long said that some provinces have actively explored ideas and accumulated more experience in vaccination work, and the National Health and Wellness Commission has promoted these experiences to all provinces, requiring all localities to further compact their responsibilities, carefully organize and effectively promote vaccination.