Notice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Yunnan Province on Strengthening the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia Infected in novel coronavirus

State and municipal people’s governments, provincial committees, offices, departments and bureaus:

Recently, novel coronavirus’s pneumonia epidemic occurred in many areas such as Wuhan City, Hubei Province. In recent years, the epidemic situation has developed rapidly, and the prevention and control of the epidemic situation is facing a severe situation. In order to effectively strengthen the epidemic prevention and control work in our province, resolutely win the epidemic prevention and control war, and fully protect people’s life safety and health, with the consent of the provincial people’s government, relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

First, improve the political position

After the outbreak, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to it. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made an important instruction: "The pneumonia epidemic situation infected by novel coronavirus has occurred one after another recently in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and we must attach great importance to it and do our best to prevent and control it. At present, during the Spring Festival, people are moving intensively on a large scale, so it is very important to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control. Party committees, governments and relevant departments at all levels should put people’s life safety and physical health first, formulate careful plans, organize all forces to carry out prevention and control, and take practical and effective measures to resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. We should try our best to treat patients, find out the causes of virus infection and transmission as soon as possible, strengthen case monitoring and standardize the disposal process. It is necessary to timely release epidemic information and deepen international cooperation. It is necessary to strengthen the guidance of public opinion, strengthen the propaganda and interpretation of relevant policies and measures, resolutely safeguard the overall stability of society, and ensure that the people spend a stable and peaceful Spring Festival. " Premier Li Keqiang gave instructions: "All relevant departments and localities should be highly responsible for people’s health, improve their response plans, do a good job in prevention and control, and implement early detection, early reporting, early isolation, early treatment and centralized treatment measures. Accelerate the identification of the source of the virus and the mechanisms of infection and transmission, timely and objectively release information on the epidemic situation and prevention and control work, and scientifically publicize the knowledge of epidemic prevention. Do a good job in communication and coordination with the World Health Organization, relevant countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, work closely together to form a joint force, and resolutely prevent the spread of the epidemic. "

All localities, relevant departments and units should conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, implement the instructions of Premier Li Keqiang and the spirit of the video conference held by the joint prevention and control mechanism in the State Council on January 20, 2020, and further improve their political positions in accordance with the instructions of the main leaders of the provincial party Committee and the provincial government and the spirit of the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the provincial party Committee on January 22, 2020 and the video conference of the provincial people’s government on January 23, 2020. Do a good job in epidemic prevention and control as a practical test to strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences" and achieve the "two maintenance", fully understand the seriousness, complexity and arduousness of the current epidemic prevention and control situation, resolutely shoulder the political responsibility for epidemic prevention and control, establish a strong sense of "it is better to prevent nine empty cases than to prevent one thousand accidents" with an extremely responsible attitude towards the people, pay close attention to the changes in the epidemic situation, and fully implement the prevention and control measures.

Second, strengthen organizational leadership

We should earnestly be responsible, responsible and conscientious in guarding the land, resolutely implement the territorial responsibility, strengthen the responsibility of the "top leader" as the first responsible person, and establish a centralized, unified and efficient prevention and control command system. The provincial people’s government set up a leading group for epidemic prevention and control with the governor as the team leader, the relevant vice governor and the secretary-general of the provincial government as the deputy team leader, and the main responsible comrades of relevant departments and units directly under the provincial government as members. States, cities, counties and districts should quickly set up a leading group for epidemic prevention and control headed by the main leaders of the government, strengthen the organization and leadership of epidemic prevention and control work in their own cities, formulate a work plan for epidemic prevention and control, and pay close attention to the implementation of the work and go all out to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control in accordance with the principles of "scientific according to law, territorial management, joint management, external defense input and internal non-proliferation". All members of the leading group should work closely together, set up a special working group, clarify their responsibilities and tasks, improve the epidemic prevention and control plan, establish and improve the working consultation mechanism, coordination linkage mechanism, information communication mechanism and information release mechanism, strengthen information sharing, joint investigation of problems and measures linkage between departments and localities, and earnestly fulfill the responsibility of epidemic prevention and control.

Third, strengthen prevention and control measures

To do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, the general requirements are: to follow the rules and regulations in accordance with the law, to manage the territory, to improve the mechanism, to respond together, to rely on science, order and effectiveness, to be open and transparent, and to seek truth from facts.

(1) early detection. Departments and units such as airports, railways, transportation, culture and tourism should take immediate action to comprehensively monitor the temperature and symptoms of passengers entering Yunnan. Those with suspected symptoms should be kept for observation in accordance with the regulations. If they are confirmed as suspected cases, they should be promptly transferred to medical institutions designated by local health departments. The people’s governments of the states, cities, counties and districts should quickly organize the comprehensive registration and follow-up of those who have lived or traveled in Hubei Province in the near future (within 14 days) and their close contacts, give health tips, implement grid and carpet management, closely track their health status, and immediately report to the local disease control institutions in case of suspected symptoms, and carry out work in accordance with regulations. At the same time, all localities should increase the intensity of epidemic monitoring, urge and guide medical institutions to strengthen the monitoring of fever cases in outpatient clinics, so as to report every doubt and check every fever.

(2) Make early reports. All localities, relevant departments and units should improve the reporting mechanism of the epidemic situation, implement the daily reporting and zero reporting system of the epidemic situation, report the occurrence, development and changes of the epidemic situation in a timely manner, and seriously hold accountable the units and individuals who make false reports, conceal reports or omit reports of the epidemic situation in accordance with the provisions.

(3) early treatment. All localities should determine the designated medical institutions for treatment as soon as possible and announce them to the public. Designated medical institutions should do a good job in protective equipment, drug reserves for treatment and technical preparation of personnel, set up expert groups, improve the diagnosis and treatment plan, strengthen the training of medical personnel, and improve the ability and level of treatment. Once an infected case is reported, we will make every effort to carry out treatment according to the principle of "territorial treatment, centralized treatment, and patient’s immobility and expert’s mobility" to minimize the occurrence of severe cases and deaths.

(4) early isolation. All localities should improve the workflow of case discovery, treatment, investigation and isolation and do a good job in personnel training. It is necessary to strictly manage the source of infection, strengthen the isolation observation and protection measures for suspected cases and close contacts, and implement on-site isolation treatment for confirmed cases to ensure that no one is missed. Control measures should be taken to reduce public gathering activities and stop public gathering activities with obvious cross risks.

Fourth, strengthen publicity and education

All localities should strengthen the publicity of infectious disease prevention and control laws and regulations and epidemic prevention and control knowledge in key places and regions such as hotels, airports, stations, docks, tourist attractions and rural areas; It is necessary to organize experts to compile epidemic prevention and control knowledge and publish it in various media, scientifically interpret the epidemic, announce the symptoms of the disease, guide the masses to scientifically understand and rationally respond to the epidemic, eliminate unnecessary panic, and create a good atmosphere for prevention and control. We must persist in carrying out patriotic health campaigns, carry out all-round and multi-level publicity, advocate a healthy and civilized lifestyle with ways and methods that the masses like to hear and understand, guide the masses to wash their hands frequently, wear masks, do a good job in personal protection, enhance their awareness of self-protection and improve their preventive ability.

V. Strengthening the guidance of public opinion

All localities should establish an epidemic information release mechanism in accordance with the principles of seeking truth from facts, respecting science, openness and transparency, and release epidemic information in a timely, scientific and standardized manner in strict accordance with national requirements and prescribed procedures. The epidemic information will be released after being examined and approved by the Provincial Health and Wellness Committee. It is necessary to inform the epidemic situation in a timely manner, take the initiative to interpret the epidemic prevention and control measures, and respond to social concerns in a timely manner. We should do a good job in public opinion monitoring, pay close attention to negative public opinions and false information and deal with them in time to prevent rumors from spreading.

VI. Implementing safeguard measures

All localities, relevant departments and units should provide necessary funds for epidemic prevention and control, do a good job in the storage and supply of protective articles, therapeutic drugs, medical equipment, testing reagents and emergency materials, mobilize relevant enterprises to do their best to produce and allocate emergency materials for prevention and control, and ensure that all kinds of materials are fully supplied and the market is stable. Acts that disrupt the market order, such as making and selling fake and inferior products, hoarding, driving up prices, cheating for profit, etc., are strictly investigated and dealt with according to law. We should pay more attention to medical staff, strengthen the control of nosocomial infection, do a good job in the management of fever clinic and outpatient emergency, and conscientiously implement the protective measures for medical staff to prevent nosocomial infection; It is necessary to do a good job in health monitoring of medical personnel to ensure their health; It is necessary to carry out supervision and inspection on the configuration of protective equipment and the implementation of protective measures in medical institutions to prevent hospitals from becoming places where the epidemic spreads. It is necessary to strictly implement the relevant medical security policies and adopt a special reimbursement policy for patients diagnosed as "pneumonia in novel coronavirus" to ensure that patients are not affected by medical expenses; Prepaid funds for centralized hospitals will reduce the pressure on hospitals to pay in advance, and the medical expenses of patients will not be included in the total budget control index of hospitals to ensure that hospitals will not be affected by payment policies.

Seven, serious responsibility accountability

All localities, relevant departments and units should strictly implement the responsibility system and accountability system for epidemic prevention and control. We should be serious about work discipline, strengthen duty and ensure the smooth implementation of government decrees. It is necessary to further strengthen the implementation of the work, establish a supervision and guidance system, strengthen supervision and inspection of registration and follow-up, epidemic report, medical treatment, etc., and implement various policies and measures at the grassroots level and the front line of prevention and control work. We must resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy in epidemic prevention and control work, do a good job in epidemic prevention and control work in a spirit of being highly responsible to the party and the people, and seriously hold accountable units and individuals who are slow to implement the epidemic prevention and control decision-making and deployment, and whose measures are ineffective and cause serious consequences such as the spread of the epidemic.

General Office of Yunnan Provincial People’s Government

January 23, 2020

(This piece is publicly released)