How Shanghai controls the influx of coronavirus cases from overseas
Posted by freemexy on March 20th, 2020
South Korean Lee Dong-min landed at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport around 1pm on Tuesday from Seoul. Less than 4 hours later, the 20-year-old Fudan University student was chatting with his mother at his home in Minhang District after avoiding contact with any member of the public on the way.To get more news about shanghai quarantine rules, you can visit shine news official website.
The Shanghai government has beefed up measures to prevent an influx of coronavirus cases from overseas. People who have lived or traveled in South Korea, Italy, Iran, Japan, France, Spain, Germany and the United States, — the eight countries hardest hit by coronavirus outside China — in the 14 days prior to their arrival must undergo a 14-day quarantine at home or at designated places.
Customs officials now put green, yellow or red tags on passengers’ passports. Cai Yihui, director of Minhang’s civil affairs bureau, said red includes passengers who have lived or traveled from the hardest-hit areas in the most-affected countries, for example, Daegu in South Korea. These people are driven to designated places for quarantine by customs authorities.
People who have been in badly hit countries but not in those countries’ worst hit areas are tagged yellow. They can’t take public transport or taxis from the airport.
Green is for passengers given the all clear.
In a bid to ensure total non-contact transport of passengers with yellow tags from airport to their doorstep, officials from the city’s 16 districts, as well as neighboring Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, have set up reception desks and transfer teams at Hongqiao and Pudong airports to register their details and take them home.
Though it took Lee much longer than usual to get home, he said the measures were understandable in the fight against the virus.This Shanghai Daily reporter met him at Hongqiao’s arrival hall at 3:44pm, when he was guided to the Minhang District reception desk.
Lee said he had filled out a health declaration card on the flight. After landing, customs officers boarded the plane and conducted an inspection, but his temperature wasn’t checked.
After disembarking, passengers were divided into four groups and led out group by group. He was in the third group comprising those living in Shanghai. He was then asked a number of questions to determine his exposure, if any, to the disease.
After a police officer verified Lee’s passport, which had a yellow tag, a Minhang volunteer asked whether someone was picking him up and where he lived. Lee didn’t have a pick-up and gave his address: Hongxin Road in Hongqiao Town.
The volunteer asked him to fill out a registration form about his address and personal information, then told him a designated bus would take him to a transit station, from where another bus would take him home.
