BEIJING (Reuters) – China will lift mandatory anti-COVID-19 quarantine from January 8 for anyone entering its territory, the National Health Commission said on Monday.
The Chinese authorities had introduced a mandatory paid quarantine on March 12, 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
Anyone entering Chinese territory was required to undergo an RT-PCR test and a serological test and then placed in a quarantine center for a minimum of 5 days.
It was not possible to choose the location of the quarantine, and accommodation and food costs were borne by those entering Chinese territory.
The national health commission – the equivalent of the Ministry of Health – further specifies in a press release that the disease will now be managed according to a category B protocol (anthrax, AIDS, etc.) while COVID-19 was until now managed according to a category A protocol (cholera, bubonic plague…).
(Report Ryan Woo, Ethan Wang, Eduardo Baptista and BrendaGoh, French version Sophie Louet)
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