Chengdu: After entering “wartime mode” amid a fresh COVID-19 outbreak, the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu has tightened epidemic control measures in residential compounds citywide and further expanded nucleic acid tests on Wednesday to cover some college students and faculty members.
According to local media Cover News, faculty members, students and their families from Chengdu University of Technology were asked to take nucleic acid tests from Wednesday.
Chengdu reported four new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, one of whom was an employee at a canteen in a local school.
Secretary of the Communist Party of China Sichuan Committee Peng Qinghua announced that Chengdu had entered wartime mode on Tuesday.
Peng also emphasized that tracing the source of the virus, screening in key areas, and expanding the scope of nucleic acid testing in an orderly manner are the most important tasks in the next stage.
The local government will also continue to strengthen customs port management, strictly investigate sales of imported cold-chain food on e-commerce platforms and other channels, and strengthen prevention, control and inspection of cold-chain logistics and transport vehicles.
The local government has stipulated that all entrances into apartment complexes must be manned 24 hours a day, and anyone entering a community must present a health code and undergo temperature checks.
All visitors must be registered before they enter a residential community.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
