Minimizing Outings

Everyone is the first person responsible for his/her health. During the outbreak of COVID-19, on top of the prevention and control measures taken by the government and relevant agencies, every citizen should be responsible for their own and others’ health, and fulfil the due diligence to maintain public security by protecting themselves and reducing non-essential outings and gatherings.

According to the Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for COVID-19 (Trial Version 7) published by the NHC, patients infected by the novel coronavirus are the main source of infection. Asymptomatic coronavirus carriers are possible source of infection. Major ways of transmission are respiratory droplets and close contact with infected people. All people are vulnerable to COVID-19. While preparing meals or dining together, people are in close contact with each other. Droplets spread by coughing, sneezing and even talking in close distance may directly transmit to the whole group, which can easily spread the disease and facilitate the prevalence of the disease. Therefore, reducing outings and avoiding gatherings and parties are important measures to interrupt the transmission of the disease.

People should strengthen personal protection by reducing visits to public places, especially where is crowded or poorly ventilated, such as shopping malls, restaurants, cinemas, stations, airports, wharves and exhibition centers. These public places are crowded with people from everywhere and have high population mobility, and virus carriers are easy to cause people-to-people transmission, incur virus infections, and spread the disease.

盡量減少外出活動

每個人是自己健康第一責任人。新冠肺炎疫情期間,除了政府和相關部門采取的防控措施外,每位公民做好個人防護,減少不必要的外出、聚集等行為,是對自己和他人健康負責,也是維護公眾安全的應盡義務。

根據國家衛生健康委發布的《新型冠狀病毒肺炎診療方案(試行第七版)》,目前所見傳染源主要是新型冠狀病毒感染的患者。無癥狀感染者也可能成為傳染源。經呼吸道飛沫和密切接觸傳播是主要的傳播途徑。人群普遍易感。在備餐和聚餐過程中,人群相互之間都是密切接觸者,咳嗽、打噴嚏甚至近距離交談產生的飛沫,可直接傳播給整個聚會人群,極易造成疾病傳播,為疾病流行提供有利條件。因此,減少人員出行,避免參加集會、聚會是阻斷疫情的重要措施。

加強個人防護,還要減少到公共場所活動,尤其是一些人員密集、空氣流動性差的公共場所,如商場、餐廳、影院、車站、機場、碼頭、展覽館等。這是因為,公共場所人員多、流動量大、人員組成復雜,一旦有病毒攜帶者,很容易造成人與人之間的傳播,進而引發病毒感染和疫情擴散。