中新網4月17日電 據中國國際航空公司提供的消息，中國國際航空公司本著“安全第一、旅客至上”的經營宗旨，為防止可能在國航航班上發生非典型性肺炎的傳染，3月份以來已經采取了一系列措施，全力保證國航航班清潔衛生。為使廣大中外旅客了解有關情況，安排自己的旅行計劃，該公司特發表公告如下：
關于防止在國航航班上發生非典型性肺炎的問題，中國國際航空公司十分重視，并采取了及時有效的措施。3月25日以前，對飛往香港的班機進行了重點消毒；3月25日以后，開始對國航全部飛回北京首都機場的航班進行徹底的消毒和通風，消毒采取藥品擦拭和噴霧兩種方式進行；國航為全部機組人員攜帶了預防藥品、口罩，并加強健康檢查，目前機組人員未發現感染者；國航機務維修人員對返回北京首都國際機場的航班加強了通風措施，確保飛機在停場后繼續進行有效通風；國航還加強了對旅客餐食衛生的管理，在生產、運輸多個環節采取了得力的措施；國航航空衛生中心成立了24小時值班的應急醫療組，對進出港航班的相關報告及時進行處理。
國航的飛機都有客艙空氣過濾系統，該系統裝備有高效微粒空氣過濾器，能夠阻擋孢子、細菌和病毒，避免它們再次循環到客艙內。在飛行中空氣每隔3分鐘會循環一遍，即機艙內空氣每小時更新20次。
國航在3月20日前已經向在全世界、特別是亞洲部分國家和地區的商務機構發出通知，各航站要加強對乘客的詢查，對有明顯癥狀的旅客將勸阻其登機，并立即向衛生防疫部門報告，以便及時采取措施。國航忠告各位準備選擇國航班機的旅客要預先了解自身的身體健康狀況，在有可疑癥狀時要等到醫生確定并非可疑病癥的時候再買票登機。根據中國衛生部、財政部、鐵道部、交通部、民航總局4月12日聯合發出的通知，國航將嚴格按照通知要求，繼續做好各項預防工作，包括：飛機消毒、協助尋找和隔離病人、協助流行病學調查、預防知識宣傳等，嚴格堵住通過交通工具傳播傳染性非典型肺炎的渠道。
據公開報道，世界衛生組織3月以來多次派官員和專家來華，與衛生部和有關方面就非典型肺炎的情況進行了調查和研究。世界衛生組織專家高度贊賞了中國政府采取的有效措施。目前，在中國境內極少數城市和地區發生的非典型性肺炎傳染已經得到有效控制，發病率顯著降低，已被感染的病人康復率迅速提高。專家認為，借助飛機本身配置的良好通風過濾系統，加之已經采取嚴格的飛機消毒措施，旅客在飛機上感染非典型性肺炎的幾率很低。國航已經及時采取了有關預防措施，今后也將密切關注飛機的衛生狀況，乘座國航的飛機旅行是安全的。
Air China Notification on the Control of SARS (April 16, 2003) By adhering to our business tenet of“Safety First and Passenger Uppermost”, Air China has been endeavoring to implement a series of measures to ensure a safe sanitary condition on all flights since early March in order to prevent possible infection of SARS on board. For the passengers’better understanding of current situations and to fulfill their travel itineraries, Air China therefore publishes the notification as follows:
Air China has been attaching great concern to the control of SARS and has initiated immediate and effective measures in order to prevent the disease from occuring on Air China flights. By March 25, Air China has carried out the disinfections on all flights to Hong Kong. Since March 25, Air China has been doing daily disinfections and ventilation to all aircrafts when they fly back to Beijing Capital International Airport. The disinfections are done by means of wiping and spraying the aircrafts with the medicine approved by related Health Quarantine Organizations. Air China has distributed the preventative medicine and gauze masks to all crew members and enhanced their health inspections. None of them has been found infected by SARS till now.
Maintenance staff of Air China has strengthened the ventilation of all flights returning to Beijing Capital International Airport and ensured that the aircrafts be always ventilated while parking on airport. Meanwhile, Air China also puts more efforts on sanitary scrutiny of in-flight passenger catering and implements effective measures on its production and distribution process. Aviation Health Center of Air China has set up emergency medical team 24 hours on duty to deal with all related reports of in-bound and out-bound flights in a timely manner. All the airplanes of Air China are equipped with cabin air filtering system, which consists of highly effective particulate air filters and can prevent the spore, bacteria and virus from spreading in the cabin. During flight, air is circulated every three minutes and it means that the in-flight air will be refreshed 20 times per hour. There will be much less possibilities of being infected on board the commercial aircrafts than at any other places without ventilation.
By March 20, 2003, Air China has issued notifications to its business organizations around the world, especially those located in the Asian nations and regions requesting that every Air China station must strengthen the health scrutiny on passengers. For those passengers with obvious SARS symptoms, we would dissuade them from boarding the aircraft and immediately report it to the epidemic prevention departments in order to take immediate actions. For passengers who are going to take the flight of Air China, we strongly recommend that they should clearly understand their health conditions in advance. If suspected symptoms being identified, they should not purchase air tickets or board the aircrafts until they receive the doctors’clearance ruling out SARS symptom. In line with the Joint Announcement made on April 12 by the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications and the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, Air China will strictly stick to the requirements and carry out preventative measures, including aircraft disinfections, assistance in identifying and isolating suspected victims, assistance in Epidemiological study and preventative knowledge publicity among people and etc. The possibility for the atypical pneumonia spreading through the transport channels should be completely eliminated.
According to public reports, since March of this year, the World Health Organization has sent officials and experts to China for several times and made joint efforts with the Ministry of Health and related departments to study and investigate the cause of SARS. The WHO experts highly praise the Chinese government for its effective measures. Currently the SARS infection in a small number of Chinese cities and areas has been under effective control. The incidents of SARS have significantly declined and the recovery rate has greatly increased. Experts believe that with good ventilation & filtering systems on board and strict disinfection measures taken by airlines, the possibility of being infected by SARS virus on board is quite lower. Air China has already implemented all relevant preventative measures in time and will certainly keep a close eye on the sanitary situation of the aircraft so as to ensure the cabin environment to be safe for travellers flying with Air China. Thank you for reading this notification and choosing Air China continually as your future travel needs. You may send an e-mail to publicr@mail.airchina.com.cn or call us at the phone number 64599048 (Chinese) or 64599063 (English) if you have questions on this issue. With the best regards (固山)
