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Inner Mongolia tightens quarantine rules: 28 days in quarantine

Laura Zhou ijobheadhunter 2021-03-16

A checkpoint on Inner Mongolia’s border with Russia. The Chinese region has now implemented stricter controls of arrivals from abroad. Photo: Xinhua

Coronavirus: Inner Mongolia tightens quarantine rules as fears of second wave of cases grows

  • International arrivals to the vast northern region will be forced to spend 28 days in quarantine

  • Fears of new clusters of Covid-19 cases heightened after 87 cases in northeastern city of Harbin were traced to a student returning from the US

They will be released from the 28-day quarantine if all the tests, including two for nucleic acid and one for antibodies, proved negative, the statement said.


Visitors from domestic locations classified as “high-risk zones”, including Beijing’s Chaoyang district, home to many foreign embassies and one of the main business districts in the Chinese capital, as well as two districts in Guangzhou – Baiyun and Yuexiu – will also be subject to a 14-day medical observation and coronavirus test period, it said.


The stricter measures come in response to the rapid spread of the outbreak worldwide and the risk of a second wave of infections in some parts of China.


Earlier, the authorities in Harbin, the capital city of the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, implemented a similar 28-day quarantine measure for people arriving from abroad after the city reported a cluster of infections caused by a 22-year-old university student returning from the US.


After nearly two months of restrictions on movement that appeared to have brought the outbreak under control, China is now facing a significant risk of a secondary outbreak, with a handful of Chinese cities reporting cluster transmission originating from imported cases.


On Saturday, China reported 11 new infections, including five imported cases, while all six domestic cases were believed to be linked to earlier infections caused by people returning from abroad.


Among the new local infections, five were reported in Heilongjiang, now the frontline in China’s battle against a second wave of infections after the northeastern rust belt province reported an influx of coronavirus cases traced to Chinese nationals returning from Russia and the US.


The health commission of Heilongjiang said on Sunday that the five new cases, included three previously asymptomatic cases in the city of Mudanjiang.


Experts said they were linked to earlier infections of Chinese nationals returned from Russia, which shares a border with the province.


The two other new cases were in Harbin city and are linked to the student, whom local health authorities identified as the source of at least 87 infections in Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia.


A giant statue of a Russian Matryoshka doll on a street in Suifenhe, China, a border city that has imposed a residential lockdown. Photo: Reuters.


According to Ke Yunnan, the deputy chief of the Harbin Health Committee, the student, who was quarantined at home rather than in a centralised medical facility after landing in Harbin on March 19, infected at least one of her neighbours. The coronavirus was then passed on to an 87-year-old man who was treated at two hospitals before testing positive, causing the temporary closure of several departments of the two hospitals and putting more than 400 medical workers under quarantine.


To stop the disease spreading, Harbin announced a new lockdown policy on Wednesday under which non-locals and vehicles registered elsewhere were banned from entering local residential compounds.


In Suifenhe, a city of 70,000 people on the border with Russia, a residential lockdown was declared earlier this month after a spike in infections imported from Russia.


Residents who wish to leave the city are now required to offer a medical certificate showing they tested negative at least three days before their departure. Those who are allowed to leave are asked to undergo 14 days’ quarantine and two nucleic acid tests on reaching their destination, the city government said on Sunday.


On Saturday, Wang Xingzhu, the local party chief, urged border officers on Saturday to stay vigilant about infection risks caused by smugglers after China closed its border checkpoints with Russia.


During a patrol with local border officers, Wang said police and local villagers should work closely together to take responsibility and “fight the people’s war against imported infections”.


Source: SCMP, by Laura Zhou               

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