Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China has recovered more than 70,000 compatriots from abroad, including some 28,000 international students | New Crown Pneumonia_Sina Finance_Sina.com

Original title: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China has brought back more than 70,000 compatriots from abroad, of which about 28,000 are foreign students.

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China’s Foreign Ministry today (17) held the “Consular Work Report 2020” to summarize China’s consular protection and service work in the context of the global spread of the new corona pneumonia epidemic this year.

Cui Aimin, Director of the Department of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that since the outbreak of the epidemic, some countries have adopted measures such as closing airports and reducing international flights to China. Chinese embassies and consulates in the relevant countries coordinate with local governments and airlines to provide overseas Chinese citizens to return home. Establish “air corridors”. According to statistics from the relevant departments, since February this year there have been approximately 21,000 inbound passenger flights (international scheduled flights, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), of which approximately 8,000 are operated by foreign airlines and approximately 13,000 by airlines. Chinese. Even in autumn and winter, when the second epidemic approaches, the number of flights to China has remained at a high level internationally. According to statistics from the relevant departments, the number of compatriots who have recently entered the country by air is about 10,000 people a day.

In addition to continuous commercial flights, China has organized 351 flights to pick up more than 73,000 compatriots from 92 countries, including Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and Iran. Among them, there are around 28,000 underage foreign students and those who have to drop out of school during the summer holidays, and around 29,000 people who are pregnant and have short-term visits abroad and business trips before the epidemic, as well as the urgent need for rotation due to the completion and suspension of projects abroad. The company has around 13,000 employees.

Cui Aimin pointed out that the work of bringing Chinese nationals back from abroad took a long time, involved a wide range, a large number of personnel and was very difficult to implement, setting a new record in the history of New China. This unprecedented repatriation operation is completely different from China’s previous evacuation operations. This time, we are faced with a major global public health event, facing invisible and intangible virus threats and threats to life, and it is even more difficult to prevent. According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization and experts, personnel in various countries should minimize movement and avoid cross infection. Therefore, this repatriation operation is not an evacuation of overseas Chinese in the traditional sense, but on the premise of taking the necessary protection measures and strictly controlling the spread of the epidemic, from some overseas compatriots who in fact they are in difficulties and urgently need to return to their countries of origin.

　　The “dual test” prevented 38,000 people from traveling with the epidemic

At the “Consular Work Conference 2020” held today (17) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cui Aimin, Director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presented China’s remote control and prevention measures to reduce the risk of spread cross-border epidemic.

Cui Aimin said that China is the first to carry out remote prevention and control internationally. Through measures such as the international version of the health code for epidemic prevention, remote nucleic acid testing and serum antibody testing, we have woven a dense “safety net” for people in China and built a protective net. for the prevention and control of epidemics. “Firewall”.

Since the beginning of April, the international version of the health code has been implemented in the 27 countries with the highest risk of imported epidemics in accordance with the relevant national health codes for the prevention of epidemics. Passengers report on their personal health status for 14 consecutive days and finally board the plane to China with the green health code. Chinese citizens can also rely on the health code applet to quickly request the “nucleic acid code” to board the plane and return to their country, realizing the effect of the remote prevention and control “code”. So far, registered users of health codes have exceeded 1.5 million.

As the conditions for nucleic acid testing in various countries mature, China has combined its successful pilot experience to implement remote nucleic acid testing measures starting in July and, by the end of September, has achieved full coverage of all countries with navigation and all passengers arriving in China. Since early fall and winter, China has increased serum antibody testing for people coming to China and added “double insurance” to ensure the health and safety of international travel and reduce the risk of cross-border spread of the virus. epidemic.

Cui Aimin said that by implementing the “dual test”, some countries that do not have the conditions for the moment have adopted alternative programs such as the two nucleic acid test. Foreign embassies and consulates also designate testing agencies taking into account various factors such as quality of testing, cost effectiveness, convenience, etc., and dynamically adjust the list of testing agencies to ensure the quality of testing. . For individual cases where detection and transfer are really difficult, embassies and consulates abroad have made flexible handling depending on local conditions and, by coordinating and communicating with each other and with foreign parties, they will do everything. possible to help everyone embark on the journey home safely and smoothly.

So far, the “dual test” has been implemented in more than 160 countries around the world. Embassies and consulates abroad have reviewed nearly 530,000 test certificates and prevented 38,000 people from traveling with the disease.

Cui Aimin emphasized that for these people, we are not blocking them, but organizing and helping them to treat them. Facts have shown that remote sensing measures have largely prevented passengers from becoming infected on their way and have effectively reduced the risk of epidemics imported from abroad.

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