The epidemic situation in many places is related to overseas goods, and the General Administration of Customs: preventive disinfection of non-cold chain goods

People's Daily health client

"The whole genome sequencing results of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the specimens of previously reported school cluster infected people showed that the virus belonged to the Omilon variant, and the virus sequence was compared with the sequence of imported cases in China, Beijing and Beijing, and no highly homologous sequence was found; it was highly homologous with the virus sequence sampled abroad and uploaded to the international new coronavirus database in January 2022." Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a member of the National Expert Group on Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia, said at the 292nd press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in Beijing.

The People's Daily health client learned from the General Administration of Customs that in the 49th regular meeting of situation analysis and work supervision held on March 15, it was emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to the "characters and prevention" and strictly do a good job in monitoring and testing and preventive disinfection supervision of imported cold chain food, agricultural products and imported high-risk non-cold chain container goods.

It is reported that many places across the country have issued reminders that it is not necessary to reduce the number of sea shopping, and when receiving overseas items, the awareness of prevention should be improved.

Pictured from the General Administration of Customs

Shandong: A standing period has been set for international mail shipments

On the afternoon of March 16, at the press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Shandong Province, it was proposed that after the entry of international mail express mail, before entering the delivery channel, the airport port and customs will be disinfected separately; after entering the delivery channel, postal courier enterprises are required to strictly implement the disinfection responsibility system of the first station, disinfect the international mail express piece by piece, and disinfect the general package and shipping container of the mail express; after reaching the terminal network, disinfect it again.

From entry to delivery, the international mail express has undergone several rounds of disinfection to ensure the safety of the outer packaging of the mail express to the greatest extent possible.

At the same time, the international mail express set a standing period, during the standby period, postal express delivery enterprises can carry out internal production operations, retention and domestic transfer, but can not be delivered to the recipient, the setting of the standing period also greatly increases the safety of internal items.

Beijing: Non-essential less sea tao

On March 16, a press conference in Beijing reminded that there have been recent positive reports of overseas mail, clothing and other items in many parts of the country, and citizens should improve their awareness of prevention when shopping online.

First, during the high incidence of the epidemic abroad, it is not necessary to have less sea shopping.

Second, when receiving overseas mail or items, masks and disposable gloves should be worn correctly to reduce direct contact.

The third is to pick up the parts at a fixed location as much as possible to achieve contactless handover; if you need to sign in person, please maintain a safe distance.

The fourth is to try to disassemble the parts outdoors, do not take the outer packaging home, according to the classification of domestic garbage; if you need to take it home, you can use chlorine disinfectant or 75% alcohol spraying or wiping the surface, so that each side is completely wet, to ensure all-round disinfection, while doing a good job of unpacking, transfer tool disinfection; mail, express delivery items can be disinfected with disinfectants, thermal disinfection, etc., or stored for a period of time before use.

Fifth, after handling the mail and courier, take off the gloves in time, replace the mask, carefully wash the hands or hands to disinfect, and avoid touching the mouth, eyes and nose with unclean hands.

The picture is from EMS China Post Express Logistics WeChat public account

Hangzhou, Zhejiang: Wear masks and gloves throughout the whole process

Sun Liming, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission, mentioned at a press conference on the 15th that since March 3, a total of 16 local epidemics have occurred in the province, of which 9 are imported from outside the province, and 6 point to a high degree of correlation with imported goods, and the Quzhou Qujiang epidemic strain is an evolutionary branch of the Omikerong mutant strain BA.2, which is highly homologous with the recent foreign epidemic strains, and the source of the epidemic is still being traced back to the source.

Hangzhou held a press conference on the 14th, saying that the city has reported a total of 52 locally confirmed cases, mainly employees of a courier transfer station. According to reports, all the related cases of this epidemic belong to the same transmission chain, which is more likely to be followed by human-to-human transmission after the operators in the logistics enterprises are infected by polluted overseas items. After the contaminated express delivery items are delivered to other express delivery outlets, it will cause infection of some couriers who are not in the logistics park.

The Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission reminds that when receiving items from countries and express deliveries in areas with high incidence of the epidemic, masks should be worn throughout the process, gloves should be worn, and hands should be cleaned in time after processing, and it is conditionally recommended to disinfect the outer packaging of the mail.

Non-emergency packages are recommended that the public put it in a ventilated, sunny place for a period of time before opening it.

Dalian, Liaoning: Simply spraying a few times on the surface of an object is not completely disinfected

"Dalian release" WeChat public account released the news, the current round of epidemic after preliminary analysis of the source of the virus is different from other parts of the country, and it is not excluded that it is related to international cargo transportation.

Reminding the collection of express delivery simply spray a few times on the surface of the object can not do all-round, the scope of disinfection is not comprehensive enough; spray a few times to end, the disinfection time of the item can not be fully guaranteed; if the composition of the disinfectant is alcohol, alcohol will encounter open flames will also have the risk of burning.

It is recommended that where conditions permit, you can ask the courier to store the items in the courier cabinet. Wear a mask and gloves before going out to avoid crowds. Remove gloves promptly after handling packages and wash your hands with running water or use hand sanitizer.

In addition, the Henan Provincial Postal Administration, the Tianjin Municipal Postal Administration and other places have issued notices requiring strict compliance with the basic system of epidemic prevention and control in the industry such as the "Suggestions on Production Operation Specifications for the Postal Express Industry During the Epidemic Prevention and Control Period (Seventh Edition)", and resolutely achieving "people, things and the environment at the same time".

EDIT: Mao Yuanyuan