Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 20 (Reporter Li Chunyu) The reporter learned from the press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia in Beijing held on the 20th that from 16:00 on March 19th to 16:00 on the 20th, Beijing added 2 1 confirmed cases of local new coronary pneumonia and 1 positive nucleic acid test, all in Dongcheng District.
According to Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as of now, the outbreak in Beijing has involved 9 elderly people aged 60 and above and 12 children aged 12 and below. Individual patients took medicines on their own after developing symptoms and did not seek medical treatment in time. It not only endangers personal health, but also increases the risk of epidemic transmission.
Pan Xuhong, deputy director and spokesman of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that since March 7, the Beijing police have handled 104 cases of various types of illegal and criminal cases involving the epidemic, 24 criminal cases were filed for investigation, and 123 were administratively punished. Implement the responsibility for epidemic prevention and control, and deliberately violate the epidemic prevention and control policy requirements for entry and return to Beijing. It is hoped that citizens will more consciously fulfill their obligations of epidemic prevention and guard the line of defense against the epidemic.
Pang Xinghuo reminded that schools, elderly care institutions and other crowd gathering places and units must strictly implement prevention and control measures. Once citizens have symptoms such as fever, dry cough, expectoration, sore throat, fatigue, diarrhea, abnormal taste, abnormal sense of smell, etc., do not buy it by yourself. Medicines, taking medicines, do not take public transportation, and seek medical treatment in time according to regulations.
Sun Yang, deputy head of Dongcheng District, Beijing, said that Dongcheng District will strictly implement graded and precise management and control, quickly carry out epidemiological investigations, conduct nucleic acid testing on key populations and the environment at risk points, and actively provide various service guarantees in the closed and controlled areas. Work.
(Responsible editor: Fu Zhongming)