Source：广州外事

At present, the world is still mired in a challenging battle against COVID-19 and many Chinese provinces and cities are grappling with local infections.

Guangzhou is under great pressure to prevent a new round of COVID-19 spread. Based on the current situation, tighter epidemic measures will be enforced as follows:

1. The health management measures on inbound travelers will be strengthened.

Inbound travelers from other provinces shall take 2 COVID-19 tests within the first 3 days after arrival (the two tests should be at least 24 hours apart) and then go on with self health monitoring for 11 days. During the first 3 days after arriving in Guangzhou, they should in principle avoid visiting places other than their residence and workplace, taking the public transit such as subway or bus, or participating in gatherings or group dining.

Those from cities (leagues, prefectures, or districts of centrally-administrated municipalities) with local infections in the past 14 days shall conduct home health monitoring for 3 days and then self health monitoring for 11 days. They should avoid unnecessary travel and refrain from going to work or school during the first 3 days and take a test on the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 10th and 14th day respectively.

Those from counties (districts, county-level cities, or streets of centrally-administrated municipalities) with a high-risk area, middle-risk areas (or regions subject to the same management methods as high-risk areas), or townships (towns, streets, or residential communities of centrally-administrated municipalities) with a middle-risk area should be quarantined at home for 14 days (starting from the day when they leave the city, league, prefecture, or district of a centrally-administrated municipality where these risk areas are located) and take a test on the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 10th and 14th day respectively.

Those from high-risk areas shall be quarantined in centralized facilities for 14 days and take a test on the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 10th, and 14th day respectively.

The above-mentioned inbound travelers should report to their residential communities (villages), employers, or hotels within 12 hours after arrival and comply with the health management measures as required. They should avoid non-essential travel and crowds while waiting for their test results.

2. Control and prevention measures on key places will be tightened.

Special staff should be in place at the entrance of all crowded places, such as wholesale markets, farm produce markets, shopping malls, supermarkets, schools (colleges, universities, and secondary schools), educational training institutions, after-school care institutions, scenic spots, museums, restaurants, hotels, and government service halls, as well as enclosed and semi-enclosed places, such as internet cafes, entertainment venues (KTV, dance troupes, and amusement halls), cinemas, theaters, libraries, chess and poker rooms, escape game facilities, foot bath places, massage parlors, bathing centers, and indoor attractions, to take temperature of visitors, check their health codes, strictly see to it that every person scans the travel code before entering, and ask them to wear masks correctly.

Other measures will be implemented in accordance with the Notice on Strengthening COVID-19 Measures in Guangzhou (No.28).

This notice will take effect from the day of its release.

Guangzhou Command Center for COVID-19 Control and Prevention

March 23rd, 2022