China takes all-out efforts to ensure safe holiday returning trips amid novel coronavirus outbreak
By
Lu Ya’nan, People’s Daily
In
the early morning of Feb. 1, 2020, when many people were asleep in the warmth
of their quilts, groups of bullet trains were heading into the maintenance
warehouse of Nanchang West Railway Station in Nanchang, east China’s Jiangxi
province.
There,
mechanists and disease control personnel were overhauling the body parts of the
trains and carrying out disinfection operations on passenger compartments.
To
prevent and control the spread of the novel coronavirus, the State Council of
China announced that the Lunar New Year holiday was extended to Feb. 2, and the
extension will be longer in certain places. As the holiday has come to an end
for most people, the country is seeing a travel rush in recent days.
At
the critical moment of virus prevention and control, railway workers joined the
fight against the novel coronavirus. While maintaining the bullet trains,
they’ve also engaged in epidemic prevention and disinfection work, in order to
make sure that the trains are clean and free from failures. All the efforts aim
at satisfying passengers’ travel needs after the holiday.
Zhang
Liubo, chief disinfection expert of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, said the large flow of population poses a very serious challenge for
epidemic prevention and control, suggesting that passengers protect themselves
during their trips so as to reduce virus prevention and control pressure of
relevant departments after they arrive at the destinations.
At
present, all passengers’ body temperatures need to be measured at both
entrances and exits of all operating railway stations across the country. Those
identified with a fever, one of the symptoms of the novel coronavirus
infection, will be put under isolation on the train and delivered to the next
station with an observation ward. Meanwhile the train will be sterilized, and
those in close contact with the suspected cases are recorded.
As
a measure to prevent and control the new coronavirus virus, Beijing Capital
International Airport has increased the amount of fresh air supply in each
terminal to ensure sound ventilation and amplified the frequency of
disinfection for equipment and facilities. In addition, the boarding bridges,
baggage carousels and other areas used by flights with fevered passengers will
be disinfected immediately after the flights are completed.
The
airport is currently equipped with 49 temperature measuring devices to take the
temperature of all passengers arriving in Beijing and all personnel entering
and leaving the terminals.
The
airport has also launched special transfer procedures and routes to avoid
contact between fevered passengers and the rest. While providing travel
services, the airport has obtained protective materials through multiple
channels so as to protect each employee on the front line of epidemic
prevention and control.
A
train attendant takes body temperature of a boy on train D354 from Chengdu East
Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Feb.2, 2020. A travel
rush is seen after the Spring Festival holiday. To contain the spreading of the
novel coronavirus, the train attendants have to inspect train cabins on a
regular basis, and observe passengers and ask if they have such symptoms as
fever, cough and dyspnea, so as to ensure safe travels. By Hu Zhiqiang, People’s
Daily Online
China takes all-out efforts to ensure safe holiday returning trips amid novel coronavirus outbreak
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