China screened 600 million for disease keeping up Covid 19 era controls
China screened 600 million for disease, keeping up Covid-19-era controls
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alt="FILE PHOTO: Passengers register their information at the New China International Exhibition Center, a transit hub to screen incoming passengers from the Beijing Capital International Airport for COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus, in Beijing, China March 18, 2020. Picture taken March 18, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS/File Photo"/>Customs officials detected more than 180,000 cases of infectious disease at Chinas borders during that time.
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DiseasesBEIJING - Chinese customs screened 600 million people at international ports for infectious diseases over the past five years, officials said on Aug 25, while pledging to refine containment protocols that became a hallmark of Beijings zero-Covid-19 policy.
Customs officials detected more than 180,000 cases of infectious disease at Chinas borders during that time, Mr Zhao Zenglian, deputy director-general of the customs agency, told a news conference on border management.
Australia and Britain both warn travellers of possible medical checks upon arrival in China, even as Beijing seeks to revive inbound tourism and attract foreign investment to give its struggling economy a boost.
“Over 600 million inbound travellers and 300 million inbound vehicles and vessels were screened, and 5.25 million disease vectors were intercepted, effectively preventing the entry of over 30 types of vector-borne diseases,” Mr Zhao said.
He did not specify which diseases officials were screening for but since the pandemic China has warned of the risks posed by imported cases of mosquito-borne virus chikungunya
“Quarantine defences at ports of entry have become more robust... Health and disease control departments have coordinated to build a ‘closed-loop’ management system: from overseas, to the border, and then to the home,” Mr Zhao
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