Recently, the results of the traceability of sporadic cases of COVID-19 in Beijing, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and other places show that the possibility of contracting the virus through overseas items cannot be ruled out. The coronavirus can survive in low temperatures for a long time, and the risk of material transmission in winter increases.
In the face of the possible risk of "material-to-human transmission" of the virus, are the packages we receive safe? What is the response of the express delivery industry?
The reporter walked into the supervision warehouse to visit the field
On January 19, when the reporter came to the Yantian warehouse of the Centralized Supervision Warehouse of Import Frozen Products in Shenzhen, located behind the Yantian Port Area, he was stopped by the doorman. "Please show your health code and itinerary code!" After the inspection, the security guard gave the reporter a card, with the card the reporter swiped several times on the gate without reaction, with the help of the security guard, waited for a while, finally came out a voice "The temperature is normal!" Then the gates of passage finally opened. Yao Yongjun, the leader of the on-site supervision team of the warehouse who rushed to hear the news, told reporters: "Our staff must also go through this process when they enter the door. ”
A stern door
This is a strict door, and imported frozen goods unloaded from Yantian Port must enter this door first.
The reporter saw at the entrance of the supervision warehouse that one after another of the vehicles full of containers had been verified by people or things at the door and stopped in front of their respective unloading platforms in an orderly manner. The staff told reporters: "These imported frozen products are all booked online in advance before entering the warehouse, so as to be orderly." ”
In the lobby on the first floor of the supervision warehouse office building, the reporter saw a driver who handled the pick-up procedures in front of the window, and the staff of the window said: "After the goods enter the warehouse, after full disinfection, full nucleic acid testing and full process traceability, there is no problem to handle the pick-up procedures." Supervise the security of the warehouse gate and handle the exit procedures with the bill of lading. ”
The reporter noted that in addition to the office area, the supervision warehouse is set up with a pick-up area, an unloading area and a fully enclosed management area. In the fully enclosed management area, there are mainly porters, disinfection personnel and sampling personnel. And they have to go in and out through three doors. One is the work area entrance door, through this gate, you can automatically detect the health status of the staff. Once inside, change into protective clothing, goggles, and gloves. One is the work area exit door, after work or noon out to eat, you have to go through this door, this door still has an automatic health monitoring function. Out of the work area exit door, walk 20 meters, is the living area of these staff. There is also a door in and out of the living area, which is also fully automated to monitor the health status of each person entering and leaving. Yao Yongjun told reporters that there are more than 90 staff members in the fully enclosed area, working in two shifts a day, and unloading about 1,500 tons of goods per day.
All-round security coverage
On the second floor of the Yantian Supervision Warehouse, the reporter first saw a huge monitoring screen, monitoring all the working areas of the supervision warehouse. "After we find problems through monitoring, we report to the leaders of the special class in a timely manner, and the leaders of the special class issue handling opinions and feedback to the operator of the deep agricultural cold chain, and carry out on-site rectification, and the whole process is clear and complete." The supervision staff introduced to reporters, "The whole warehouse monitoring is mainly aimed at three aspects of the problem: one is personal protection, to see whether the protective clothing of the lower warehouse personnel is complete, whether the wearing and taking off is standardized; the second is the killing effect, to see whether the food passes the time in the disinfection machine, to reach 10 seconds, whether there are uniform small water droplets on the surface of the product packaging after disinfection; the third is environmental hygiene, to see if there is no timely removal of garbage, failure to clean up the accumulated water and other behaviors." ”
The reporter learned that this global monitoring system is installing broadcast functions, the future is expected to achieve supervision warehouse operation area monitoring, broadcast full coverage, in this regard, the field supervision team leader Yao Yongjun said: "Through real-time monitoring, broadcast shouting to find problems, deal with problems, solve problems, greatly improve work efficiency and execution, through direct shouting of the key problems, frequent problems can play a role in the point with the effect." This is a concrete embodiment of the continuous improvement and improvement of our regulatory work, which gives us a more comprehensive perspective and makes it easier to identify universal problems in regulatory work."
Traceability of the entire process
In the working area of the supervision warehouse supervisors, the reporter saw an electronic screen that had been safely operated for 49 days. Hu Jianbin, head of the comprehensive group of the supervision warehouse, told reporters that the Yantian warehouse, a centralized supervision warehouse for imported frozen products in Shenzhen, was officially opened on December 1 last year. After the warehouse was opened, the city's imported frozen product management capacity was increased from 80 cabinets / day to 140 cabinets / day. In the warehouse, the implementation of each batch of frozen product nucleic acid sampling full detection, frozen product packaging full elimination, import frozen products full traceability "three complete" management.
As of January 18, 2022, the centralized supervision warehouse (Yantian) has put into storage 2545 containers, imported 68397.2445 tons of frozen products, sampled 18,600 batches of imported frozen products, completed sampling nucleic acid testing of 99,700 copies, excluded 293 batches of suspected positive frozen products, detected 58 positive frozen products, intercepted 44 batches of positive frozen products, involving 32 containers, 15725 pieces, and 219703 kilograms of positive frozen products.
What are the disposal measures after the entry of international mail and express mail?
Perform at least 4 rounds of kills
A standing period will also be set after disinfection
According to reports, after the arrival of international mail and express mail in China, the containers are first disinfected by the relevant agencies of the airport. After the disinfection is completed, the postal and express mail will be transported to the customs supervision area.
Before handling the customs clearance procedures, the relevant agencies will disinfect the general package or pouch, disinfect the large mail and express mail piece by piece, and intubate disinfect the small pieces and letter mail and express mail. "The so-called intubation disinfection is to spray disinfect the disinfectant through the tube into the pouch." Bian Zuodong, deputy director of the Department of Market Supervision of the State Post Bureau, said.
After customs clearance, postal courier enterprises will open and open postal bags in the distribution processing link, and disinfect the postal and express mail piece by piece. After the mail and express mail arrive at the terminal outlets, they will be sprayed and disinfected again before delivery.
"In other words, when the mail and express mail reach the hands of consumers, they are disinfected at least 4 times." Bian Zuodong said that in addition, some companies also adopt ultraviolet disinfection and other methods to carry out more rounds of disinfection.
A few days ago, the State Post Bureau issued a notice to further improve the disinfection requirements on the basis of the 4 rounds of disinfection, requiring the disinfection of postal and express mail piece by piece, side by side and full coverage.
Bian Zuodong explained that this is mainly to take into account the different shapes of international mail and express mail, including bags, boxes, and letters. In the process of disinfection, enterprises may overlap with mail and express mail, or cause incomplete disinfection due to placement on the ground and conveyor belts.
Not only that, the notice also set a standing period after disinfection for imported international mail and express mail to ensure the disinfection effect.
At present, the international express mail of the time-limited category, sent from abroad to the completion of delivery at home, may only take two days at the shortest. Prior to this, most postal express delivery companies have also adopted the practice of leaving imported international mail and express mail for a period of time after entering customs.
The specific time of the standing period will be determined according to factors such as import mail, the risk level of the epidemic situation in the place of origin of the express mail, and the attributes of the delivered items. For example, metal and plastic express shipments have different standing times than paper expresses.
It is reported that at present, the State Post Bureau is consulting with relevant departments on the specific time of the standing period, and will determine specific standards in accordance with the requirements of local epidemic prevention and control departments.
For international mail, express mail front-line operators
Closed-loop management
At present, the mainland imports about 500,000 pieces of international mail and express mail every day. In view of the epidemic prevention work of the relevant link staff, the State Post Bureau has also put forward clear requirements.
For related workplaces, postal and express delivery enterprises should effectively do a good job in disinfection and ventilation of places. At the same time, enterprises are encouraged to hire third-party professional disinfection service agencies to implement accurate disinfection of key links and important areas, so as to realize the institutionalization, standardization and normalization of disinfection work.
For relevant staff, high-risk positions such as international mail, express mail front-line operators, and import cold chain related personnel are required to strictly implement the requirements of fixed positions, personal protection, health monitoring, nucleic acid testing and so on. International and domestic business should strictly separate the operating area, ensure that the inside and outside do not intersect, and resolutely achieve closed-loop management. For the practitioners in the final delivery link, it is required to strictly implement basic health protection measures such as "wearing masks", "washing hands frequently", "measuring body temperature", "not gathering", "one meter line", and implementing management measures such as "holding a certificate to work" and "holding a health code to work".
At the same time, postal and express mail recruiters must complete the whole process of vaccination, so that they can be picked up and answered. At present, the vaccination rate of the whole process of the industry has reached 98%.
In addition, postal administration departments at all levels will combine industry supervision responsibilities to implement full-coverage supervision and inspection of international postal and express mail processing sites within their jurisdictions at least once a month. For the problems found in the supervision and inspection, the enterprise is ordered to rectify within a time limit, and the relevant departments are notified, and the enterprise is strictly urged to grasp the implementation of various measures of "external prevention of import".
The killing cannot involve the inside of the mail and express mail
Recipients should raise awareness of prevention
Although the express delivery industry has established a relatively complete virus elimination and prevention mechanism for imported international mail and express mail, according to the relevant provisions of the Mainland Postal Law, postal express delivery enterprises are not allowed to open and open other people's mail express mail without permission. This also means that the express delivery industry cannot disinfect the interior of international mail and express mail, and recipients should effectively improve their awareness of prevention. In this regard, the State Post Bureau requires that couriers should take the initiative to prompt the recipient to wear masks and properly dispose of outer packaging and other protective measures when delivering.
For the pickup, if the courier is received at home, a mask and gloves should be worn before contacting the courier. Remove gloves promptly after handling packages and wash your hands with running water or hand sanitizer. If you go out to pick up the courier, if you have the conditions, you can ask the courier to store the items in the courier cabinet. Wear a mask and gloves before going out to avoid crowds. After handling the package, remove your gloves in time and wash your hands with running water or use hand sanitizer.
"We recommend that the recipient try to open and open the international mail and express mail outdoors, disinfect the inner parts, and wash their hands carefully after processing." Bian Zuodong said.
After the notice was issued, major postal and express delivery companies took action. The relevant person in charge of YTO Express said that it will comprehensively assess the epidemic risk level of the source of international express mail, the qualification of upstream business entities, the attributes of the delivered goods and other factors, and formulate a plan for the prevention and control of the epidemic in high-risk countries and regions. At the same time, establish an international express mail processing and disinfection work account, and regularly report feedback to the competent business departments.
Comprehensive People's Daily economic and social WeChat public account, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Newspaper
Source: Shenzhen News Network