New policy for overseas personnel to return to China in 2022

On June 28th, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism released the ninth edition of COVID-19 prevention and control plan, which adjusted the control time of close contacts and entry personnel from "14 days of centralized isolation medical observation +7 days of home health monitoring" to "7 days of centralized isolation medical observation +3 days of home health monitoring".

In addition, the nucleic acid detection measures were changed from "centralized isolation medical observation on 1, 4, 7, 14, collection of nasopharyngeal swabs and double sampling and double inspection for nucleic acid detection before isolation" to "centralized isolation medical observation on 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7, collection of oropharyngeal swabs for nucleic acid detection" The control measures of close contact were changed from "7-day centralized isolation medical observation" to "7-day home isolation medical observation", and nucleic acid detection was carried out on 1, 4 and 7 days.

The latest regulations on the isolation of overseas returnees:

1. First, the isolation time is shortened.

The quarantine control time of entry personnel was changed from "14 days of centralized isolation medical observation +7 days of home health monitoring" to "7 days of centralized isolation medical observation +3 days of home health monitoring".

2. The second is nucleic acid detection measures.

From "nucleic acid detection for medical observers in centralized isolation on 1, 4, 7 and 14, collecting nasopharyngeal swabs, and double collection and double inspection before releasing isolation" to "nucleic acid detection for medical observers in centralized isolation on 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7, and collecting oropharyngeal swabs on the third day of home health monitoring"