Beijing: The capital of China on Sunday increases the steps to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus case by almost banning people from Beijing from the province with a high-level transmission rate of Covid-19.
To strengthen the shield against the Covid-19 pandemic, Beijing has launched various steps to strengthen the management of personnel who returned from regions with a relatively high level of viral transmission, including imposing restrictions on train tickets and air services, the state of the Global Global Times reported.
People from medium-risk or high-risk areas or plan to return to Beijing but have a travel history associated with these areas to be prevented from buying tickets for air and train services.
In addition, if they choose to go to the capital of China, they will also be persuaded to turn u and leave, the newspaper said.
Some of the Chinese cities, including Wuhan where Coronavirus first appeared in December 2019, has reported the revival of the Covid-19 case, declared a Delta variant.
The Global Times report said the health code for people who are still in medium and high-risk areas will be adjusted to the yellow color, and anyone with a health code that is not green will not be allowed to take a plane or a train to Beijing.
Presenting green health codes will be a must.
Only when medium and high risk areas are reduced to low risk or when tourists do not have a history of travel in the designated risk area within 14 days, can their yellow code return to normal green.
After getting a green health code, passengers must also present negative nucleic acid test results within 48 hours of hostel transportation to return to Beijing.
Tourists must notify their workplaces or their homes before their trip, undergo a 14-day health monitoring period and take nucleic acid tests on their arrival days and others on their seventh day in Beijing, Daily reported.
Also, as part of an effort to protect the capital from the virus, Beijing Daxing International Airport has been announced to suspend flight routes from 15 cities including a plague hotspot such as Nanjing, Yangzhou and Zhangjiajie, Wen Wu, said the Deputy General Manager of the airport, said every day on Saturday , Mainland China on Saturday reported about 150 positive and asymptomatic cases from several provinces including Jiangsu, Henan, Yunnan, Hubei and Hunan, according to the State National Health Commission.
Beijing, where the top leadership of the country lives, also enrolled several cases during July last week even though there were no reports of new cases in the last few days.
The state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the Beijing City Sports Bureau has urged all sports and fitness facilities to train more stringent epidemic prevention steps as a very contagious Delta variant of the spread of Covid-19.
Notifications issued by the Bureau said that the number of people in sports facilities in Beijing increased with excellent and frequent personnel exchange, which leads to severe challenges in epidemic prevention and control, especially in the fields of swimming, sports and sports facilities.
China has reported a total of 93,701 infections since the Covid-19 outbreak at the end of 2019