Shanghai airports plan for epidemic prevention,further expansion

A Shanghai Customs official checks the health declaration of an arriving passenger on an international flight at Pudong airport.

Shanghai's Pudong and Hongqiao airports have imposed strict prevention measures against the coronavirus, while making blueprint for the next five years.

The number of daily passengers at the two airports is now around 50,000, up from only 20,000 after the outbreak of the epidemic when many flights were cancelled.

Both airports have been promoting "non-contact" and "one-meter-away" services to inbound and outbound passengers.

About 40 temperature checkpoints, equipped with infrared ray detectors, have been set up in the terminal buildings, VIP channels and business jet terminals at both airports.

Airport staff disinfect luggage at Hongqiao airport.

Marks to remind keeping a one-meter intervals from others have been printed across the terminal buildings at both airports. The explosion-proof checkpoints at the entrances to the terminal buildings, for instance, have been redesigned to allow waiting passengers to keep a meter away from others.

The check-in sections, boarding areas and luggage carousels also have posters to remind passengers to keep at least a meter away from others.

Buffer zones have been newly set up at temperature checkpoints to prevent too many people waiting in the areas.

Passengers are asked to keep at least a meter away from others when waiting for security checks at Hongqiao airport.

As operations return to normal, the airports have started making plans to improve the punctuality of flights.

Meanwhile, the Shanghai Airport Authority has announced a super-size civil aviation industry zone near Pudong International Airport.

The airport authority has been working together with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China and Lingang Group to develop the zone.

Focused on China's domestically developed large aircraft, the zone is planned on the south of Pudong airport, covering over 20 square kilometers with over 100 billion yuan (US$14.4 billion) of industry, according to the airport authority.

The airport also started preparations for its fourth-phase expansion.

Shanghai Customs changes focus of coronavirus prevention

File photo: CGTN

Local customs is striving to prevent the coronavirus from getting into the country from overseas through various measures at local ports.

Jiang Yuan, deputy chief of Shanghai Customs, said local ports have become new frontline in the battle against the coronavirus.

With city's transport, immigration, commerce, health and foreign affairs authorities and police, local customs has several new measures on epidemic prevention.

Epidemiological investigation covers everyone from countries stricken by serious outbreaks. More than 300 customs professionals have been dispatched to the frontline at ports.

Ports have worked with transport departments to ensure people enter the country safely and efficiently. The officers hope to never miss any key passengers that should be put in quarantine. Meanwhile, they have tried to raise the efficiency of customs clearance to avoid gathering.

Quarantine zones at the ports will be improved and expanded, Jiang said, and customs clearance will readjusted to cope with masses of passengers. Every flight's purser must report information that customs demands before arrival.

Temperature-sensing devices have also been upgraded. Now if a passenger's temperature is lower than a normal range, the device will also alert the officer.

Shanghai Customs has updated its health declaration card, which passengers need to fill in before entering the country. The new card adds items like occupation, entry or exit port, contact in China, address in the following two weeks, and countries and regions you have been to in the past two weeks.

Passengers are also asked to report if two persons or more in their family or workplace have a fever or other symptoms, and whether they have taken an antipyretic or cold medicine in past three days.

Jiang encourages passengers to fill in the card online via WeChat or official website of the General Administration of Customs.

The Frontier Health Quarantine Law sets out punishments for those who conceal information or lie on the health declaration.

Local customs has checked 18,000 flights, cruises and trains as well as nearly 1.9 million passengers. Officers checked and released 14,000 batches of epidemic prevention and control supplies, including 330 million masks and 6.3 million protective clothing.

Travelers arriving in Shanghai from virus-hit countries to undergo medical check-ups

A customs officer checks passengers' health information on Wednesday at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. (Photo: Xinhua)

All the travelers arriving at the two Shanghai airports from countries and regions severely affected by the novel coronavirus will be subjected to epidemiological investigation to vigorously curb the spread of the virus from overseas, the Shanghai government said on Saturday.

"Medical workers will conduct the epidemiological investigations, including their potential contact history with confirmed cases of the COVID-19, for travelers from South Korea, Italy, Iran, and Japan once they enter the terminal building before taking their temperatures and checking their health declaration forms," Jiang Yuan, vice-head of the Shanghai Customs, said during a press conference held by the municipal government.

Zheng Jin, spokeswoman of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said that 20 of the total 42 suspected cases of the COVID-19 in the city currently are from overseas.

The customs also said that people concealing their travel or living history when filling out the health declaration forms or not collaborating with health and quarantine measures will be brought to justice. If their behaviors cause spread of the contagion, they will face criminal responsibility.

As a traffic hub for the neighboring regions, Shanghai also started on Saturday to transport travelers who arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport or Shanghai Pudong International Airport but were heading to neighboring provinces as their destinations by chartered buses to minimize their contact with others during the journey. People boarding such buses must go through all the immigration health checks first.

Shanghai previously clarified that all the people, Chinese and foreign, who traveled or lived in South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan, within 14 days before their arrival in Shanghai are subject to home isolation or quarantine observation – if they do not have a residence in the city – for 14 days.

Source: SHINE; China Daily

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