A first center, supposed to prevent the propamation of the virus by foreign travelers, came out of land in canton. Eventually, all major Chinese cities should be equipped with similar buildings.
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Little, travelers entering China per canton should no longer be isolated in one of the hotels requisitioned for this purpose, but in a permanent quarantine center, baptized “International Health Center”. To this end, dozens of three-storey buildings came out of the ground during the summer of 2021 on the outskirts of the city. They total 5,074 rooms whose size varies from 18 to 39 square meters (plus eleven rooms for people with reduced mobility). An investment assessed at $ 260 million (€ 230 million) by the authorities.
Special bus access from the airport, meals served by robots, thermometers equipped with artificial intelligence, cameras to remotely communicate with the surveillance staff: this center of 250,000 square meters (about 46 terrains Football) is supposed to prevent the spread of CVIV-19 by travelers landing in this metropolis of the south of the country.
Event, all major cities should be equipped with similar centers. According to Cui Gang, a head of the National Commission for Health, each large city should have a ratio of 2 quarantine rooms for 1,000 inhabitants. “Centralized quarantine centers for travelers entering the country play a key role to prevent the spread of the virus,” he explained at the end of September.
The Canton Health Journal indicates that 169 employees at the Canton Red Cross Hospital have been working in this center since September 17. But, while China Daily said on October 8, 2021 that “all travelers entering the country” would be sent, it seems that only the Chinese – who, in fact, constitute the vast majority of travelers are conducted.
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These centers prove that, for Beijing, the Zero Covid strategy is a long-term battle. This rests on the principle: “Test, trace, isolate”. The tests are imposed on anyone traveling in the country, having an appointment with a political official, going to a collective event or may be a contact case. Tracing travel is permanent. As for the isolation, it concerns both the country – which has suppressed 98% of its international flights since March 27, 2020 – that persons from abroad – submitted to a quarantine included, according to the cities, between two and Eight weeks – and the Chinese close to people diagnosed positive.
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