The impact of the Hebei outbreak has spread across the country, and the National health Commission yesterday publicly advocated spending New Year’s Eve at work to prevent the spread of the outbreak. More than a dozen provincial and municipal governments and enterprises and institutions have issued notices advocating their employees to spend New Year’s Eve in the local area, with Zhejiang Province making a surprise move by issuing a notice encouraging companies to issue “stay-at-work bonuses”. In this regard, the netizens are lamenting that they “can’t do it” and that they were not able to go home last year because of the Wuhan epidemic, but this year “the knife in the sky must go home”.
The epidemic in Hebei province has not rested, in addition to the surrounding provinces of Hebei subsequently strengthened control, the National Health Commission deputy director Zeng Yixin said yesterday, to guide staggered travel and online consumption, optimize and stagger the timing of the winter school holidays, the start of spring school, advocate the New Year at work, as far as possible to reduce the flow of people, strict control of traffic flow.
Caixia New Media reports that at least 11 provinces and cities have issued initiatives to have their citizens spend New Year’s Eve locally and not travel outside the city unless necessary. Other provinces (cities) including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Sichuan and some other enterprises and institutions have also notified employees to spend New Year locally and leave subject to strict approval. Some institutions in Tianjin and some state-owned or private large enterprises in Guangdong have been told that they should stay at their workplace for the New Year and go to a different place to “play a sign to explain the necessity”.
Another notice was issued in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, requiring cadres of institutions (enterprises and institutions) to take the lead in spending New Year’s Eve locally. Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Hengshui City, further strict requirements of cadres and employees are not out of the country, if necessary, to strictly approve the management. At least 32 counties and cities in 15 major labor exporting provinces such as Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Hunan have also issued initiative letters to guide foreign workers and students to “not return home unless necessary”.
“The pressure on our prevention and control is really great,” stressed Jiang Qingwu, a professor at Fudan University’s School of Public Health, “This is a very important moment, and we still have to tighten the string.
The surging news reported that many party and government organs, enterprises and institutions received “non-essential not to leave X” notice, as well as leave subject to approval of the notice. For example, Sichuan Province, Hunan Linli County, Guangdong Meizhou City, Shenzhen City, Henan Nanyang City and other places. Governments in Zhejiang also encourage companies to issue “retention bonuses” and arrange cultural tours to keep employees in the area for the New Year or to work.
Despite this, netizens continue to wail. Some netizens said, last year Wuhan closed the city can not go home for New Year, and this year can not return home, “I work more than 3,000 kilometers away from home, guess how much my parents miss me?” The measure “can not be a little flexible?” The company’s main goal is to provide a more flexible solution to the problem. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of services, including: “three words, can not do”, “the sky under the knife must go home”.
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