At the end of June, China released the “New Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention and Control Plan (Ninth Edition)” to optimize the prevention and control work. One of the optimized regulations is definitely a major benefit for international students: the entry quarantine standard has been shortened from the original “14+7” days to “7+3” days.
After the update of the epidemic prevention and control plan, the willingness of overseas students to return to China has increased significantly, but the questions of the international student group have also increased!
According to comprehensive reports by official media such as CCTV News and People’s Daily Online, on July 12, Xu Qing, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration, introduced the safety production and operation of civil aviation in June and the first half of the year at a press conference. Questions were answered.
“The Civil Aviation Administration will continue to strengthen consultations with relevant countries and gradually increase the number of international flights,” Xu Qing said.
Taking into account the needs of international personnel exchanges such as overseas students returning to China, the Civil Aviation Administration, under the coordination of the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism, is promoting the steady and orderly resumption of international schedules in accordance with the development of the epidemic situation, the optimization of recent prevention and control measures, and the improvement of local governments’ ability to receive international flight support. Work on passenger flights to accelerate the recovery of the international aviation market.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China has also made adjustments to the circuit breaker policy for international flights to China – changing the circuit breaker rules for international flights from a diagnosis within 7 days of the flight landing to trigger a circuit breaker within 5 days of the flight landing. A number of airlines represented by Air China, China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines have also successively announced new plans for the resumption of international flights. Xiong Wei, an expert from the Civil Aviation Resources Network, pointed out: “These new flights disguised the cancellation of the five-one policy that has been in place for two years.”
Requirements for pre-trip inspection
All passengers on flights from the United States to China must undergo a “double nucleic acid” test within 48 hours before boarding, and the second test must be completed within 24 hours before boarding.
“Double nucleic acid” testing should achieve “parallel testing and cross-validation”, that is, two different reagents are used in different testing institutions, and the interval between two samplings is more than 24 hours.
?Example: If the check-in date for your flight departing from the United States is on July 10, local time, the time required for the second nucleic acid test is as follows: the first sampling time is July 8, the second sampling time is July 9, and Different testing institutions must be selected and different testing reagents are used.
About testing institutions
Nucleic acid testing certificates issued by legal testing institutions in the United States (generally, should have CLIA qualifications, CLIA qualifications can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/clia/LabSearch.html) are acceptable. The test report should contain specific information such as personal name, date of birth, time of collection, time of report issuance, and the contact information of the testing institution available for inspection.
Isolation period and method of entry personnel
The “New Coronavirus Pneumonia Prevention and Control Plan (Ninth Edition)” adjusts the isolation and control time for inbound personnel and close contacts from “14-day centralized isolation medical observation + 7-day home health monitoring” to “7-day centralized isolation medical observation” Observation + 3-day home health monitoring”.
Nucleic acid testing measures were adjusted from “nucleic acid testing on the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 14th days of centralized isolation medical observation, collecting nasopharyngeal swabs, and double sampling and double testing before release from isolation” to “centralized isolation medical observation days 1, 2, 3, 5” , 7 days, and the third day of home health monitoring, nucleic acid testing, and collection of oropharyngeal swabs.
