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China strengthens the controls to the borders in order to avoid a return of the pandemic on the national territory
The minister of the Transports arranges a hardening of the measures
March 27, 2020
In the current language of the journalism, with the verb to armor one usually refers to us to measures assumed from the authorities in order protect the communities from potential risks, even if most times who writes this term knows very well that the adopted initiatives in order to preserve some collectivities from the dangers will not be never sufficient to ask for the threat totally. However when the power that establishes and commands these measures is more authoritarian, is sure that who is remitted to apply them it will hurry to execute with solerzia the assignment, than this just or is mistaken, that it causes damages rather than benefits.
And it is sure that in China, so as the directives are diligently and ossequentemente complyd in order "to more armor" the national areas hit by the contagion of the coronavirus to the aim to avoid of the spread in the other regions of the country, are expectable that equally it will be made in order to fulfill to the last governmental dispositions times "to armor" the frontiers of the entire nation in order to prevent now that the infection reaches from abroad, that in domestic within the epidemic seems to be itself stopped.
Therefore a hardening of the controls appears next on the transboundary transits of the people, but also of the goods, since yesterday, taking part in television conference to the extraordinary forum of the G20, Chinese president XI Jinping has proposed the convocation shortly of a reunion of the ministers of the Health of the G20 "in order to improve the sharing of the information, to strengthen the cooperation in matter of medicines, vaccinates and control of the epidemics and to reduce the transboundary contagions". "This - Jinping has said referring to the Covid-19 - is a virus that does not respect the frontiers".
The exhortation to a greater attention to the trasmissibilità of the disease through the borders probably has reached the other world leaders as a suggestion in order to avoid that the epidemic becomes pandemic, as however already so is declared 11th March by the World Health Organization, word - had then evidenced Tedros Adhanom, general manager of the agency of the United Nations - "than is not from using with lightness or negligence". More prescrittive, instead, have been the instructions given yesterday from the Chinese minister of the Transports, Them Xiaopeng, in occasion of a ministerial conference in order to define the answer to the current epidemic condition in China.
After the usual invitation, municipality to all the Chinese political exponents, turned from Xiaopeng to the departments and the ministerial units to study carefully, to comprise to bottom, to put into effect decidedly and to put into practice the important disposition directive of the Jinping general secretary on the prevention and the control of the epidemics and on the economic and social development, in conformity - Xiaopeng has recited right - with the decisional deliberations of the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of State, the minister has emphasized the necessity to from abroad defend China from the reintroduzione on the territory of the coming virus.
Xiaopeng has specified the necessity to maintain the block of the transboundary street transports of passengers and goods, clarifying that the vehicles that arrive to the border would have to unload the goods and leading of the trucks would have to be subordinates to controls. The maintenance of the block regards also the marine transport of passengers and the crocieristiche activities. The minister has specified moreover that initiatives will have to be assumed in order to prevent and to control the spread of the epidemic between the crews of the ships, specifying that the national administration will cooperate relatively with the international authorities to the income in the Chinese ports of foreign ships and to the period of quarantine to which they will have to be subordinates. Moreover Xiaopeng has exhorted the civil employees to strengthen the initiatives in order to from abroad prevent and to control the import of contagions also in, highway, fluvial and aerial the rail shipment.
Relatively to the measures in order to assess that in the Chinese ports marine bearers of the infection do not disembark and in order to assure the reciprocation of the crews of the ships, yesterday China Shipowners' Association (CSA), has illustrated the modalities for re-enters in homeland of the marine Chineses, explaining that if the travel carried out from ships left from nations that are breeding grounds of the contagion has an inferior duration to 14 days, the crew once reached in a Chinese port must be subordinate to isolation until arriving to the two considered weeks the maximum period of incubation of the virus.
Certainly from abroad it is lawful to wonder which effects will be able to have on the Chinese economy a smaller permeability of the national borders to the commercial exchanges in a moment in which Beijing, almost to alleviate the psychological impact on the population of the measures in order to check the contagion, which word of order for a better future has thrown again ossessivamente the "fight to the poverty". Abroad it is conscious of the devastating impact of the sanitary crisis on the economy and the society. So it must be also to Beijing that, to beyond the virus, shows for all a future Prospero.
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