On February 27th, the press conference of the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism was released authoritatively!

On February 27th, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference, and responsible comrades of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Health and Wellness Commission and the General Administration of Customs introduced the situation of consolidating major achievements in epidemic prevention and control. Please pay attention to the hot question and answer of this conference!

Consolidate the hard-won major achievements

Recently, the national epidemic situation has continued to maintain a stable trend. The epidemic situation in all parts of the country is in a sporadic state, and no provinces with obvious rebound in the epidemic situation have been found.

Over the past three years, China has been coordinating the prevention and control of epidemic situation and economic and social development efficiently, creating a miracle that a populous country has successfully emerged from the epidemic in the history of human civilization.

For more than three years, the concept of people first and life first has been deeply rooted in people’s hearts. The medical and health service system has withstood the ultimate test. Joint defense and control, group defense and group control have created a strong people’s defense line of unity and unity.

It is necessary to grasp the measures of "Class B and Class B Management" and consolidate the hard-won major achievements.

It is necessary to optimize the layout of medical and health resources, strengthen the production, supply and overall deployment of medical materials, and continuously enhance the ability to deal with major epidemics and public health emergencies.

It is necessary to pay close attention to the development trend of overseas epidemic situations, maintain the effective operation of the normalized command system, and improve the rapid response level of epidemic monitoring and early warning.

What are the experiences and inspirations of living materials security in the past three years?

First, the sufficient quantity and stable price of living materials benefit from the great attention of the CPC Central Committee the State Council.Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Supreme Leader General Secretary has made a series of important instructions on coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development, clearly requiring that while doing a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic, we should keep production and life stable and orderly, ensure the production, circulation and supply of staple and non-staple foods, and ensure the supply of daily necessities such as vegetables, meat, eggs, milk and grain. The joint prevention and control mechanism in the State Council has specially set up a living material support group. Every time the situation of epidemic prevention and control tightens, and before important time points and major activities, specific arrangements should be made for coordinating the work of living material support.

Second, the sufficient price of living materials benefits from the efficient coordination of the guarantee mechanism.The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the General Administration of Market Supervision, the Grain and Material Reserve Bureau and other member units, focusing on the common goal of ensuring supply and stabilizing prices, have kept a close eye on every link of the living material security work, compacted their responsibilities, divided their work and cooperated efficiently, strengthened the sharing of information resources and daily dispatching management, and made every effort to do a good job in the whole process and all links of the living material security, forming a strong working force across departments. Strengthen communication and convergence with the provincial living materials guarantee mechanism, smooth the up-and-down linkage channels, keep abreast of the work trends of ensuring supply and stabilizing prices in various places, and urge and guide local governments to take targeted measures to do a good job in living materials guarantee. The provincial living materials guarantee mechanism also responded quickly, took the initiative, and took many measures to grasp the living materials guarantee work during the epidemic. At the same time, we also pay attention to summing up experience, put forward opinions on improving the price control mechanism of important people’s livelihood commodities, and build a long-term mechanism to ensure supply and stabilize prices.

Third, the sufficient quantity and stable price of living materials benefit from always highlighting the key points of work.Adhere to comprehensive monitoring and judgment, daily monitoring of more than 200 large-scale agricultural products wholesale markets and more than 140 large-scale supermarket chains in 36 large and medium-sized cities across the country, including the prices and trading volume of daily necessities, daily consultation and judgment of the production and supply of domestic materials, market prices, government reserves, commercial inventories, including the number of green cars, etc., and timely grasp and judge the abnormal market fluctuations such as centralized procurement in individual places. Adhere to key guidance and coordination, focus on key epidemic areas and important commodities of people’s livelihood, guide local governments to start the safeguard mechanism at the first time, strengthen the connection between supply and demand, respond quickly to local demand, and coordinate and organize supply and transportation guarantee in time.

Fourth, the sufficient quantity and stable price of living materials benefited from the improvement of emergency supply capacity.Focus on storage, transportation, distribution and other links, implement the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system, and strive to strengthen the construction of emergency supply capacity of living materials. To strengthen the reserve of finished grain and oil, the storage capacity of finished grain and oil in the main urban areas of 36 large and medium-sized cities and areas with volatile markets has been improved to more than 15 days. Give full play to the main channel role of large commercial enterprises and large logistics companies, and identify more than 1,800 key suppliers. Guide all localities to plan and build emergency materials transfer stations in advance, optimize and improve the operation plan, and ensure rapid and effective use in an emergency. Guide the epidemic areas to "quickly seal and solve" and "fully open" key supply guarantee enterprises, implement the closed-loop mode of "special person, special car, special line and special management", promote the experience and practice of "one person on the first floor, one group on the first floor, one question a day, one delivery and one pick-up", further strengthen terminal distribution, and do everything possible to ensure the supply of daily necessities.

What is the focus of the current customs import work?

The first is to strengthen the analysis, judgment, monitoring and early warning of the global epidemic.Improve the ability of early detection and early disposal of major epidemics, and achieve "more accurate judgment, faster response and more powerful measures". At the same time, according to the deployment of joint prevention and control mechanism in the State Council, the customs and the disease control department continued to monitor the variation of Covid-19 imported from abroad. Since January 8, the "Class B Management", as of February 26, the customs has detected 30 kinds of mutant strains imported from Covid-19, and detected the first domestic mutant strains such as XBB.1.9, XBB.1.9.1 and XBL.

The second is to adjust and optimize various measures for port epidemic prevention and control.Adhere to scientific prevention and control, strengthen the joint prevention of "water, land and air", make unified arrangements according to the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, and incorporate the detection results of nucleic acid or antigen within 48 hours before entry into the customs health declaration. At the port, measures such as body temperature monitoring, medical inspection, and mutant strain monitoring are used to effectively check the epidemic risk of entry-exit personnel, and measures such as epidemiological investigation, medical investigation, and sampling detection are strictly implemented for those who are found abnormal in quarantine, and the first line of defense for external defense input is firmly established.

The third is to continue to do a good job of "multiple diseases and prevention."At present, cholera, yellow fever, Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever and other infectious diseases occur frequently in the world. On February 15th, the World Health Organization announced that the monkeypox epidemic continued to constitute a "public health emergency of international concern". The Customs will continue to strengthen the risk monitoring, analysis and judgment of overseas infectious diseases, strengthen joint prevention and control, and strictly implement the infection prevention and control measures in Covid-19 to prevent the cross-border spread of other infectious diseases.

What mechanisms and measures need to be improved in the prevention and control of epidemic situation in rural areas in the new stage?

The first is to further improve the responsibility mechanism for epidemic prevention and control in rural areas.Carry forward the fine tradition of the party’s management of rural work, promote the improvement of the "five-level secretary" responsibility system in all localities, and build a working system of coordinating strong provinces, dispatching cities, and implementing counties and villages. Guide all localities to establish and improve the list of responsibilities of county and village secretaries to prevent and control rural epidemics, and earnestly fulfill their territorial responsibilities. Give full play to the role of rural grass-roots party organizations as fighting bastions, and pay close attention to the prevention and control of epidemic situation in rural areas in the new stage.

The second is to further focus on key rural populations and key areas, and improve the working mechanisms such as insurance contact, organization and mobilization.In the prevention and control of epidemic situation in rural areas, all localities mobilized a large number of cadres to sink to the grassroots front line, mobilized grassroots party member cadres, grid workers, village doctors and volunteers, and carried out the guarantee contact for key groups such as the elderly, the sick and the disabled in rural areas, and made health monitoring and medical services. At the same time, mobilizing social forces to help referral and transshipment has played an important role in the prevention and control of epidemic situation and the rescue of personnel in rural areas. In the next step, we will further focus on strengthening and empowering rural grassroots party organizations, further promote and improve the contact service mechanism for key rural populations, strengthen support and guarantee for key areas, and continue to organize epidemic prevention and control in rural areas.

The third is to further promote the overall allocation of medical resources in various places and improve the rural medical treatment system and mechanism.China’s gradually improved three-level medical and health service system in counties and villages has provided a solid foundation and guarantee for epidemic prevention and control in rural areas. Next, in accordance with the No.1 Document of the Central Committee this year and the Opinions on Further Deepening Reform and Promoting the Healthy Development of Rural Medical and Health System just issued by the State Council of China, we will accelerate the construction of county-level medical communities, strengthen the capacity building of rural medical and health care and medical security services, further promote the sinking of medical resources, vigorously promote the establishment and improvement of a coordinated medical system in counties and villages, improve the ability of prevention and control of rural infectious diseases and emergency response, and make up for the shortcomings of rural public health services.

What measures will the medical material support group take in the next step to ensure the production and supply of key medical materials?

First, normalize the production and supply of key medical materials.Continue to adhere to the daily scheduling mechanism, guide key enterprises to rationally adjust and optimize the production rhythm, strengthen the protection of various production factors, guide enterprises to maintain large-scale production capacity, and ensure that they can respond to sudden demand at any time. Closely follow the marketing progress of new vaccines and drugs, and make preparations for production and supply in advance.

The second is to effectively improve the toughness and safety level of the industrial chain of key medical materials.Give play to the advantages of the new national system and the role of the market mechanism, innovate the organization and mobilization model, and focus on the shortcomings of the key links in the biomedical industry chain to carry out joint research. Support the construction of a centralized production base for APIs, break through the green production process and consolidate the advantages of large-scale manufacturing of chemical APIs. Strengthen the capacity building of supply and demand docking, accurate delivery, etc., and fill the shortcomings in the supply and distribution of grassroots first-line medical materials in remote rural areas, township hospitals, etc., to ensure the people’s basic drug demand.

The third is to comprehensively improve the emergency support capability of medical materials..Strengthen the emergency linkage between the central and local governments, ensure timely and efficient emergency allocation, and achieve a "national chess game". Strengthen the linkage reserve mechanism among the central, local and enterprises, enhance the ability to resist risks, timely adjust the central medical reserve catalogue, support local medical material support groups to improve the working mechanism of production, storage, transportation and reception, and encourage enterprises to increase the capacity building of emergency medical reserves.

The fourth is to accelerate the development of the pharmaceutical industry.Taking advantage of the situation, we will thoroughly implement the development plan of the pharmaceutical industry and medical equipment industry in the 14 th Five-Year Plan, study and formulate a series of policies and measures such as strengthening the chain of the pharmaceutical industry, stabilizing the chain, and improving the industrial technology innovation ecology. Strengthen the construction of national manufacturing innovation center in the field of medicine, integrate and gather innovative resources, and accelerate the industrialization of innovative achievements. Promote the construction of small molecular antiviral drugs and new vaccine technology platforms to meet the needs of emergency research and development and production.

In the next step, what are the considerations and arrangements for dealing with other public health emergencies that may occur?

First, we should further improve the command system of medical emergency.Clarify the responsibilities of all departments, institutions and links in medical emergency, and promote the mobilization and support mechanism of national medical rescue forces in major epidemics and emergencies. Construction of national, provincial, city and county three-dimensional medical emergency command and dispatch information system, so as to achieve fast instruction transmission, orderly system response and strong grass-roots implementation.

The second is to promote the construction of medical emergency treatment base.We will build a national emergency medical rescue base and a national major infectious disease prevention and control base, and build a medical emergency training base for natural disasters, public health, social security, accidents and disasters, so as to improve the handling capacity of medical emergencies in multi-scenario situations. In addition, in areas with a working foundation in the country, it is necessary to build and lay out a national research center for poisoning treatment and continue to promote the construction of medical treatment bases for nuclear radiation. Through the base construction, the core support of emergency medical rescue is constructed.

The third is to upgrade and expand the national emergency medical rescue team.At present, there are 40 national emergency medical rescue teams, which are divided into three categories: comprehensive rescue, poisoning treatment and nuclear radiation treatment. On this basis, in accordance with the requirements of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", we will set up about 20 national medical treatment teams for major epidemics throughout the country to be responsible for the treatment of major epidemics and the support within the region and nationwide. At the same time, improve the equipment level of emergency medical rescue, especially strengthen the ability of severe treatment. In addition, it is necessary to promote the construction of provincial and municipal emergency medical rescue capabilities to meet the needs of on-site disposal of various emergencies and rapid disposal of major emergencies. By improving the ability of emergency medical rescue team in all directions, the backbone of emergency medical rescue is formed.

In short, we will work with relevant departments to comprehensively improve the on-site emergency medical rescue and treatment capabilities, and further improve the ability and response to the treatment of a large number of wounded and sick people and the rapid medical emergency response to emergencies. Establish a professional, standardized, information-based and modern emergency medical rescue system, improve the level of early prevention, timely detection, rapid response and effective disposal, and at the same time give play to China’s role in global emergency medical rescue, laying the foundation for sustained, healthy and stable economic and social development.

How should individuals do a good job in the prevention of influenza A and norovirus and standardized treatment after infection?

Influenza and norovirus are seasonal infectious diseases. Influenza is a respiratory infectious disease caused by influenza virus infection, which is mainly spread through droplets and close contact. Influenza is seasonal epidemic every year, most of which are self-limited diseases, but some patients will develop into severe cases due to pneumonia or other complications, mainly in the elderly, children, pregnant women and people with chronic basic diseases.

Measures to prevent influenza mainly include vaccination, wearing masks, washing hands frequently, good ventilation and reducing the gathering of people. After flu-like symptoms appear, people should pay attention to rest and self-isolation, and people with severe high-risk factors should see a doctor in time after onset.

Norovirus is an acute gastroenteritis caused by digestive tract infection, mainly through contact with infected patients and eating water and food contaminated by virus. Norovirus has strong resistance in the environment, short incubation period after infection, and long detoxification time for patients, which is easy to spread among people. Every October to March is a period of high incidence of infection, and the key prevention and control places are mainly schools, kindergartens and collective units that provide centralized meals.

Norovirus prevention measures are mainly to maintain good hand hygiene and personal food hygiene, such as not drinking raw water, cleaning fruits and vegetables, eating cooked vegetables as much as possible, and cooking food at high temperature. Norovirus infection is mainly mild, and the main symptom is vomiting and diarrhea. It is a self-limited disease. After infection, we should pay attention to replenish water and maintain electrolyte balance. If there is serious vomiting and diarrhea, we should seek medical advice in time if there is a risk of dehydration.

In view of these seasonal infectious diseases, we have asked medical institutions at all levels to further strengthen the pre-inspection and triage, so that fever clinics and intestinal clinics should be fully opened, and a certain amount of therapeutic drugs should be reserved. When receiving doctors encounter patients with related symptoms, they should strengthen the diagnosis and differential diagnosis, give active treatment according to the causes and symptoms, and effectively protect the medical needs of patients.