Hongqiao airport bans flights from overseas
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SHANGHAI Hongqiao International Airport will suspend all international flights and flights to and from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan from today to buck the rising trend of imported COVID-19 cases, local authorities said yesterday.
All relevant flights will be transferred to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, said Yin Xin, director of the news release department of the Shanghai Information Office, citing the city’s coronavirus prevention and control authorities.
Hongqiao airport will still remain available for such flights should they require emergency landing, or if the Pudong airport is unavailable, Yin added.
Since Monday, international arrivals have to undergo nucleic acid testing to screen for coronavirus. Beijing and Shenzhen followed suit, starting today and yesterday, respectively.
Shanghai reported nine new confirmed imported COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number to 75.
The first local patient of COVID-19 infected by an imported case was also reported. The case is a Baoshan District resident, who had a business trip in Guangdong Province on March 14-15. The person had close contact with an imported case there and was put under quarantine on March 21. The person started to develop symptoms during quarantine.
So far, the patient’s nine close contacts have been tracked and put under quarantine and public places the person visited have been disinfected, the city health commission said.
In another measure to better curb coronavirus transmission from overseas, people with a history of traveling or living in countries on the city’s epidemic prevention watchlist will get a red QR health code after their entry into Shanghai.
Previously, only confirmed and suspected cases of infection and people under quarantine got the red code.
Now the city will give the red QR codes to all those entering Shanghai who have been to areas on its watchlist within 14 days prior to their arrival.
The red codes will alert local epidemic prevention and control workers that these people should be quarantined.
There are now 24 countries on the watchlist and all Chinese and foreigners who have been to these countries within 14 days before entry into Shanghai will be quarantined for 14 days.
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