The Beijing municipal government is mobilizing all walks of life to
build a city-wide epidemic prevention network in the current battle
against SARS, Acting Mayor Wang Qishan said here Wednesday.
Wang said at a press conference the joint efforts of the whole
society for epidemic prevention and control is the key to victory
in the battle.
The government has called on schools, communities, towns, villages
and grass-root social organizations to take measures for curbing
the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
In
urban areas, all communities have been organized so they canmake
timely report on the local SARS situation to authorities concerned
and keep an eye on the development of the situation of their
neighbors.
In
rural areas, each home has been offered a thermometer and farmers
are required to take their temperature everyday.
In
colleges and universities, classes will continue during the May Day
festival and teachers and students will stay on campus, while
workers at construction sites who are mostly from rural areas in
the other parts of the country are told not to go home, as a
measure to cut off the channels for virus spread, Wang said.
Strict quarantine inspections have been enforced on passengers in
and out the city, and those found to be running a fever or have
other symptoms will be sent to designated hospitals and fellow
passengers aboard the same plane or other vehicles will be traced
down or put under clinical observation.
Wang said the people in Beijing are sparing no effort to ensure the
supply of water, coal, electricity and cooking gas.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2003)
