On October 27th, the Office of the Provincial Food Safety Committee issued an urgent notice, demanding that group dinners be prohibited during the epidemic prevention and control period.

The Notice emphasizes the need to effectively strengthen risk prevention and control. The broad masses of people and catering service operators should have a clear understanding of the dangers that the current organization and hosting of group dinners may cause the spread of the epidemic, and do not organize or host group dinners. The market supervision department should strengthen the inspection and persuasion of centralized dining in various catering service units within its jurisdiction, and take relevant measures in time to stop it. Those who refuse to implement it shall be severely punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of epidemic prevention and control and relevant laws and regulations.

relevant departments should mobilize restaurants and restaurants to take the initiative to assume the social responsibility of epidemic prevention and control, and urge catering operators to take the initiative to contact the organizers of group dinners or people who order food, and cancel group dinners or family dinners with friends and relatives. Catering operators' requests for cancellation of some booked consumers should be based on the overall situation of maintaining social stability, and from the perspective of maintaining the overall image of the industry and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, they can actively and properly handle the cancellation related matters by means of refund or deferred consumption. Residents' committees and villagers' committees should earnestly strengthen the management of group dinners in villages (communities). Organize residents and villagers to participate in the control of group dinners, do not hold group dinners during the epidemic prevention and control period, and resolutely prevent people returning from places with serious epidemics from organizing and participating in any form of dinner activities to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

The Notice requires that the emergency duty system should be strictly implemented, the complaint reporting channel of 12315 should be unblocked, the information of complaints and reports that violate the above provisions should be accepted and disposed of promptly, and the illegal group dinners should be quickly verified and dealt with according to law. It is necessary to seriously investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations, and investigate and deal with the organizers, contractors and other relevant personnel who organize group dinners in violation of regulations according to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and other relevant laws and regulations. Those who are malicious or do not listen to advice are handed over to the public security department for handling according to relevant laws and regulations.

Xi' an Municipal Bureau of Commerce: suggested that restaurants and hotels should suspend business

On October 27th, Xi' an Municipal Bureau of Commerce issued an urgent notice on the supervision and inspection of prevention and control measures for pneumonia infected by novel coronavirus in the city's commerce and trade industries, and suggested that hotels, restaurants, hotels, homestays and other hotels in the city should suspend business. If business is really necessary, it must be filed at the pneumonia prevention and control headquarters infected by novel coronavirus in all districts and counties (development zones) to provide information on check-in and dining personnel.

In order to effectively prevent and control pneumonia in novel coronavirus and ensure people's health and life safety, from October 26th, seven inspection teams for prevention and control of pneumonia in novel coronavirus were set up under the leadership of Xi 'an Municipal Bureau of Commerce to inspect and supervise the prevention and control measures of pneumonia in novel coronavirus in the city's commerce and trade industries, and make daily inspections of commerce and trade industries in all districts and counties (development zones). It also requires the competent commercial departments of all districts and counties (development zones) to take the lead in setting up inspection teams in each jurisdiction, which is responsible for cooperating with the municipal inspection teams to inspect the commercial industry in the jurisdiction, supervise the implementation of rectification, and independently carry out supervision and inspection of the commercial industry in the jurisdiction.

according to the notice, hotels, restaurants, hotels, homestays and other hotels in the whole city suggest to suspend business. If it is really necessary to open business, it must be put on record in the pneumonia prevention and control headquarters of novel coronavirus in each district/county (development zone) to provide information on the people who check in and eat.

hotels, restaurants, hotels and homestays in the whole city are strictly forbidden to receive people from epidemic areas. If people from epidemic areas check in or have meals, they must immediately report to the pneumonia prevention and control headquarters of novel coronavirus in all districts and counties (development zones), and the headquarters will coordinate to stay in the designated hotels for the prevention and control of pneumonia infected by novel coronavirus in Xi 'an.

The Municipal Bureau of Commerce suggested that commercial enterprises unrelated to epidemic prevention and control and protection of people's livelihood should suspend business. If commercial enterprises need to operate normally, they must go to the pneumonia prevention and control headquarters of novel coronavirus in all districts and counties (development zones) for filing, and strictly implement inspection and epidemic prevention measures. In particular, they must take the temperature of every consumer who enters the commercial enterprises, and report to the pneumonia prevention and control headquarters of novel coronavirus in all districts and counties (development zones) immediately if there is any abnormality.

article source: published by Xi' an.