Notice on Standardizing Wearing Masks

Recently, the epidemic situation in COVID-19 in China has shown a trend of multiple spots, wide areas and multiple occurrences. It is extremely important to wear masks regularly to reduce COVID-19 infection. According to the research, if COVID-19 infected people and healthy contacts wear masks, the infection rate is only 1.5%. In order to reduce the risk of infection and guide the public to do a good job of protection, the relevant requirements for standardizing the wearing of masks are hereby notified as follows:

First, the general public

Scenes and occasions where masks need to be worn

1. Shopping malls, supermarkets, cinemas, venues, exhibition halls, airports, docks, public areas of hotels and other crowded indoor places.

2. When taking a van elevator and public transportation such as airplanes, trains, ships, long-distance buses, subways and buses.

3. In crowded outdoor places such as open-air squares, theaters and parks.

4. When seeing a doctor in a hospital or accompanying a doctor, when receiving health checks such as temperature detection, checking health codes and registering travel information.

5. When symptoms such as nasopharyngeal discomfort, cough, sneezing and fever appear.

6. When restaurants and canteens are not eating.

Mask selection:

It is recommended that the public choose disposable medical masks, medical surgical masks or masks with protection levels above.

Two, the key population overseas input and pollution diffusion of high-risk jobs.

1. Cross-border truck and train transportation, loading and unloading, etc.

2 overseas frozen food processing, storage, loading and unloading, transportation and other cold chain transportation jobs.

3. Responsible for drivers, flight attendants, cleaners and porters of inbound flights, trains and cars.

4. Customs officers who supervise inbound and outbound means of transport, goods and postal articles.

5. airport, flight and other cleaning personnel, baggage handling and other ground personnel. Mask selection: It is recommended to wear a particle protection mask during the whole work process.

Service personnel in public places

1. Including stewardesses, security guards, salespeople, ticket sellers, policemen, chefs, waiters in hotels and restaurants, couriers, cargo distributors, doormen, security guards, cleaners, etc.

2 nursing homes, nursing homes, welfare homes, prisons and other institutions to provide services. Choice of oral placement: it is recommended to wear disposable medical masks, medical surgical oral placement masks or above at work.

Campus personnel

1. Personnel of child care institutions. Kindergarten teachers, duty personnel, cleaning staff and canteen staff should wear masks.

2. Primary and secondary school personnel need to carry spare disposable medical oral covers or medical surgical masks. On campus, students and lecturers don't need to wear masks: school waiters, cleaning staff and canteen staff need to wear masks.

3. University and college personnel. Under the condition of ensuring effective ventilation and keeping a safe distance above 1 meter, faculty and students do not need to wear masks; Wear a mask when closed, crowded or in close contact with others; School waiters, cleaners and canteen staff all need to wear masks.

Mask selection: it is recommended to use disposable medical masks, medical surgical masks or masks with protection level above.

Third, special circumstances.

1. Patients with severe heart and lung diseases should wear masks under the guidance of doctors.

Babies under 2.3 years old do not wear masks.

Children in kindergarten have special physiological characteristics, so it is not recommended to wear masks.

Fourth, standardize the requirements for wearing masks.

1. Wear a mask correctly, make sure that the mask covers the nose, mouth and chin, and the nose clip should be pressed tightly.

2. When the mask is dirty, deformed, damaged or smells, it should be replaced in time, and the cumulative wearing time of each mask should not exceed 8 hours.

3. It is not recommended to reuse masks that have been used in cross-regional buses or hospitals.

4. Masks that need to be reused should be hung in a clean, dry and ventilated place when not in use.

5. If you feel suffocated and short of breath during wearing the mask, you should immediately take off the mask in an open and ventilated place.

6. Take a spare mask when going out and store it in the original packaging bag or clean storage bag to avoid extrusion and deformation. Abandoned masks are classified as other garbage disposal.

7. It is recommended that families keep a small amount of particulate matter protective masks and medical protective masks for future use.

Xinxiang COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control headquarters office

May 2022 13