Source: Zhongxin Jingwei
Recently, Beijing and Shenzhen announced the traceability of the case of Omicron, both pointing to "international express delivery", saying that the possibility of infection of imported items through abroad is not ruled out, and the potential risk of virus transmission of international express delivery has aroused widespread concern.
YiYi (pseudonym), who lives in Shenzhen, told the Reporter that because he received an overseas package, the health code became "yellow". In the "yellow code channel" of the hospital's nucleic acid test, she found that there were two other people in the same situation. On social platforms, several netizens also shared the same experience.
Shenzhen 12345 government service convenience hotline staff told the Zhongxin Jingwei reporter on the 19th that during this time received overseas courier, the health code may turn yellow, but there is no more information and unified regulations.
And what more people care about is, can we still shop for sea now? Can I still receive international courier? How to prevent risks?
Infection with the virus due to contact with foreign items is not excluded
As the year draws to a close, the trend of the epidemic caused by the Aumechjong mutation is touching people's hearts. In the relevant outbreak notification, a new chain of transmission has attracted wide attention, that is, the virus or through international courier transmission.
According to the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Beijing on January 17, the local confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia reported by Beijing on January 15 had no history of travel in other provinces and cities in the 14 days before the onset of the disease, and the cases did not coincide with various risk groups. However, the case reported that he occasionally sent and received international mail during his work, and received an email on 11 January, which was sent from Canada on 7 January and reached Beijing via the United States and Hong Kong, China. According to the case's own account, only the outer surface of the mail package and the first page of the document paper were exposed, and the inner surface of the package and other paper were not touched.
In addition, for international mail and imported goods, the relevant units of epidemic prevention and control in Beijing have collected 22 environmental specimens of the international mail, including 2 on the outer surface of the package, 2 on the inner surface and 8 paper specimens in the documents, all of which were positive for nucleic acid testing, and detected the specific mutation sites of the Omi kerong strain.
Combined with the epidemiological history of the case, the test results of the suspicious item sample and the genetic sequencing results of the case specimen, the possibility of infecting the virus through the foreign article is not ruled out.
The origin of another case disclosed in Shenzhen on 17 January also showed a similar cause. According to the notification, after further investigation, case 17 was engaged in the collection and delivery of overseas frozen reagents, spun off the courier from North America on January 12, and the nucleic acid initial screening was positive on the 15th, which did not rule out the possibility that the epidemic was caused by exposure to new coronavirus contaminants imported from abroad.
In addition, according to the results of the press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Zhuhai held on January 17, the traceability of the flow survey in Zhuhai found that all cases are currently on the same transmission chain. Gene sequencing is 100% homologous to imported cases from other provinces. The cases of early onset were engaged in customer service work of a certain enterprise, and they were often exposed to overseas imported goods. According to the current investigation and laboratory testing, experts have judged that the epidemic is not ruled out by exposure to contaminated inbound items, and further traceability of the source of circulation is still being stepped up.
Can consumers still shop at sea?
YiYi was recently responsible for helping the company purchase items for the annual meeting, and since the domestic flagship store was out of stock, she chose to place an order in the overseas area of the e-commerce platform. Yiyi's receipt records show that during this time, she successively received packages from Hong Kong, China. I didn't think that on the 18th, her health code became "yellow".
Screenshot of respondent health code
Yi Yi told Zhongxin Jingwei that at first he thought it was a mistake, that he had not had any abnormal behavior in recent days, and that he had not received any prompts. It wasn't until she received a call from a staff member on her way to the hospital to ask if she had received a package from abroad that she learned what had happened. Next, she needs to do 3 nucleic acids in 7 days.
Another blogger with coordinates in Shenzhen also posted on the social platform, "Don't be a sea taobao in the near future, don't accept international packages!" Similarly, it also said that the health code turned yellow after receiving the international package.
Some experts suggest that at this stage, the sea should be reduced. However, it is understood that the vast majority of ordinary consumers buying goods from the platform are shipped from overseas warehouses or domestic bonded warehouses, and these goods will be uniformly managed in the warehouse before shipment, and some have even been stored for a long time.
According to Cainiao's introduction to the reporter of Zhongxin Jingwei, in the bonded warehouse, Cainiao arranges special personnel to use disinfectant for the port car to kill, and in some areas, qualified suppliers are invited to disinfect the goods of the port car according to the requirements of the territorial government; in some areas, special personnel and special areas are designated according to the requirements of the territorial government to unload the port car, and health tests and regular nucleic acid tests are carried out on the personnel who contact the cargo of the port car.
However, consumers should still be vigilant about express mail entering the country by direct mail, such as personal purchasing goods.
According to the introduction of Zhongtong to the reporter of Zhongxin Jingwei, the average daily import of Zhongtong International is about 120,000 pieces, of which the bonded warehouse and direct mail entry of express mail and goods, before the customs of the outbound country and after arriving at the domestic customs, the customs will carry out a comprehensive elimination of the express mail. On the operator side, the operating site of the international express is killed twice a day.
ZTO also reminded consumers that consumers should wear masks when receiving packages, properly dispose of the outer packaging, and disinfect the inner parts.
State Post Office:
Strictly prevent the import of overseas epidemic diseases through delivery channels
In the face of the severe epidemic situation and the possible channels for mail transmission, on January 16, the Department of Safety Supervision and Administration of the State Post Bureau issued a notice requiring the effective construction of an epidemic prevention and control barrier for international mail express mail and strictly preventing the import of overseas epidemics through delivery channels.
The State Post Bureau requires postal administration departments at all levels and postal express delivery enterprises to further strengthen management of "characters and defenses". It is proposed to assess the epidemic risk level of the source of the imported mail express, the qualification of the upstream business entity, the attributes of the delivered goods and other factors, and formulate the epidemic prevention and control disposal plan for the imported mail express from high-risk countries and regions in accordance with the relevant requirements such as accurate prevention and control; it is necessary to timely submit the international mail express data information in accordance with the provisions of the postal administration, and ensure that the data is true, complete and verifiable in the process.
At the same time, enterprises should earnestly do a good job in disinfection and ventilation of international mail express processing places. Postal administration departments at all levels are required to combine the responsibilities of industry supervision and control to implement full-coverage supervision and inspection of international mail express processing sites within their jurisdictions at least once a month.
Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, recently reminded that the new crown virus can survive for a long time at low temperatures, and the risk of transmission in winter is increased. Minimize the purchase of overseas goods during the high incidence of the epidemic abroad.
If you receive mail or items from abroad, wear masks and disposable gloves correctly to reduce direct contact and communication.
Pick up the package at a fixed location as much as possible for contactless handover, and if you need to sign in person, please keep a safe distance from the courier.
When disassembling, try to carry out outdoors, the outer packaging should not be taken home, it should be sorted according to the domestic garbage; if it is necessary to take it home, the internal and external packaging can be fully disinfected with chlorine disinfectant or 75% alcohol.
After handling the mail, take off the gloves in time, carefully disinfect or wash the hands, change the mask, and avoid touching the mouth, eyes, and nose with unclean hands.