Beijing reported two new infections of COVID-19 on Sunday including one who tested positive after returning from a business trip to North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Beijing authorities raised the alert of preventing imported cases by placing strict restrictions on the entry to the city for people with a travel history to places where local infections have been reported, as imported cases are still considered the biggest risk to the city's current epidemic prevention.
Despite sporadic cases in Beijing being contained in a timely manner over the past month, alerts of epidemic prevention of imported cases have to be raised to consolidate the hard-won achievements of the city's epidemic prevention and control, Xu Hejian, spokesperson of Beijing Municipal People's Government, announced the strict restriction to the entry of the city by people with a travel history to cities, regions or banners where there is one local infection or more reported within seven days.
In particular, the local disease prevention and control authority reminded that personnel who have traveled to South China's Hainan Province, cities of Baotou, Ordos, Ulanqab, Wuhai and Xilin Gol League in Inner Mongolia, and other places at risk since July 23, have to report to the local communities, their workplaces and hotels and cooperate with a series of epidemic prevention measures including quarantine and nucleic acid testing.
