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People who receive mails from overseas should take nucleic acid tests between the third and seventh day after receiving it, several cities in South China's Guangdong Province issued the notice recently as a normalized anti-epidemic measure to prevent international packages from causing domestic COVID-19 flare-ups.
Beijing's health authority has released the first guideline on international mail amid the COVID-19 epidemic, urging people to strengthen testing and disinfection of mail, health monitoring for postal staff and protective measures for mail-openers.
At least four rounds of disinfection will be carried out for international mail upon their arrival in China to prevent COVID-19 transmission from overseas, an official from the State Post Bureau of China said on Tuesday. Several cases found in Beijing, Zhuhai and Shenzhen in South China’s Guangdong Province were suspected of being infected by contaminated goods from overseas.
As many cities in China have reported outer packaging of international parcels testing positive for COVID-19, Beijing, the capital city to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, is applying strict measures to avoid the virus from being transmitted, including multiple rounds of disinfection and 48 hours of ventilation. The terminal site of Beijing Air Mail Processing Center, which is responsible for imported parcels and international correspondence in Beijing, handles about 120,000 imported parcels and international correspondence every day. After the mails and parcels arrive at the center, they ...