COVID-19 rules for Spring Festival travel in various locations

To Tianjin

From low-risk areas: a negative nucleic acid test report conducted within 7 days, a 14-day home quarantine and medical observation, a nucleic acid test every 7 days during observation.

From medium or high-risk areas: people who have left the medium or high-risk areas for 14 days and hold a negative nucleic acid test report can move freely; people who have left for less than 14 days should provide a negative nucleic acid test report conducted within 3 days before arrival in Tianjin, and must undergo an isolated observation until they have left for 14 days, as well as two nucleic acid tests.

From low-risk areas in the administrative divisions where a medium or high-risk area is located: in addition to Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Langfang in Hebei province and Daxing district in Beijing, people from other low-risk areas in the districts or cities where a medium or high-risk area is located should provide a negative nucleic acid test report conducted within 3 days; those unable to provide a report should immediately take a nucleic acid test and stay home for observation until the result is issued.

For people engaged in high-risk work such as loading, unloading, handling and transport of imported goods (including cold chain food), port quarantine, border inspection and isolated cases transit: a negative nucleic acid test report conducted within 3 days before arrival in Tianjin, those unable to provide a report should immediately take a nucleic acid test. Returnees should have a home quarantine until they have been in Tianjin for 14 days and have a nucleic acid test every 7 days; other people should have a home quarantine until they have left the exposed environment for 14 days and have a nucleic acid test every 7 days. Amid home quarantine, people should have their body temperature measured twice a day and stay home as much as possible.

To Shijiazhuang, Hebei province

At the Hebei province epidemic prevention and control press conference held on Jan 12, it was requested that epidemic control sites be set up at all the borderline entrances and exits of Shijiazhuang and its Gaocheng district, as well as Xingtai and its county-level city of Nangong. People with intention to enter or leave the above areas should be persuaded to abandon the journey. Twenty-four-hour patrols will be conducted on the rural roads of the above areas to ensure that vehicles and personnel will not leave the villages, counties, and cities. In the cities of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, pavement patrols by traffic police will promptly discover and deal with vehicles and personnel traveling in violation of relevant rules.

People from Shijiazhuang who are in other places should not return to the city unless absolutely necessary. They must contact their community before returning.