App

China urges public to limit road travel amid virus outbreak
Updated: January 29, 2020 10:55 Xinhua

BEIJING — The traffic management bureau of the Ministry of Public Security released a notification on Jan 28, urging the public to limit road travel amid intensifying efforts to battle the novel coronavirus outbreak.

On the fifth day of the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, the total traffic flow was down 46.87 percent year-on-year, the bureau said, adding no long-distance or long-time traffic jams or accidents with more than five deaths had been reported as of 5 pm on Jan 28.

Over 190,000 police officers were dispatched across China to ensure road safety and transportation support to the epidemic prevention and control during the holiday, it added.

Copyright© www.gov.cn | About us | Contact us

Website Identification Code bm01000001 Registration Number: 05070218

All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to www.gov.cn.

Without written authorization from www.gov.cn, such content shall not be republished or used in any form.

Mobile

Desktop

Copyright© www.gov.cn | Contact us

Website Identification Code bm01000001

Registration Number: 05070218