Beijing requires teachers and students to postpone their returning plans during the summer vacation if they are in medium- or high-risk areas in other parts of China, until the area they are staying or have visited is adjusted to a low-risk area, the Beijing education authority announced Wednesday.
The city reported one locally confirmed patient found on Tuesday, who showed symptoms after being categorized as an asymptomatic carrier on August 1. In total, 54 close contacts of the patient have been found.
For those who are within the city and live in medium- or high-risk areas, they are permitted to return to schools with a negative nucleic acid test report taken within 48 hours after the area is reduced to low-risk area, said Li Yi, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, at a press conference on Wednesday introducing the policies of returning to school after summer vocation.
For those who are currently outside Beijing and in areas with medium- or high-risk status, a 14-day health monitoring in Beijing is required before returning to school. A nucleic acid testing report within 48 hours and one more testing on the day of arrival in Beijing are also required before being qualified to return to universities.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that two confirmed cases were reported in Beijing's Changping district during July 27 and 28 after their visit to Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province, an epicenter of the latest outbreak. The individuals didn't know that they had been to an epidemic risk area and didn't report their travel history to community staff. As a result, 1,751 people in Beijing were determined to be close contacts of the two cases, and 14 units in Beijing related to the cases, including the working area and residential community, have been put into sealed control.
Longyueyuan community and other eight communities were sealed because of the two cases, and all the communities were reportedly carrying out the fourth and fifth rounds of nucleic acid testing. If all testing samples are negative, and after comprehensive analysis of the municipal and district disease control centers, lockdown could be lifted in these communities, reported Beijing Daily on Wednesday. The Longyueyuan community is now a medium-risk area.
A community staff from Longyueyuan community told the Global Times that they would wait for the decision made by the CDC to know whether and when to ease control in the area.
The staff said that they have received a notice and a sixth round of nucleic acid testing is scheduled to take place on Friday for the residents.
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