Hainan requests 14-day self-quarantine for travelers from low risk areas

Experts from the Hainan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended that all incoming travelers from low risk areas spend a 14-day quarantine period at home and record their personal health conditions. 

With the COVID-19 pandemic flaring up overseas, there are still risks of occurrences of sporadic and cluster cases in China. In addition to the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, the flows of people and the numbers of gatherings have increased, the risk of epidemic transmission has increased, and epidemic prevention and control measures have in turn become increasingly severe.

To safeguard the hard-won achievements of pandemic prevention and control and economic and social development in Hainan, and to ensure people have a happy, peaceful, safe and healthy holiday, the expert team of the Hainan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention put forward the following recommendations: 

People who come to Hainan from low-risk areas should undertake personal health monitoring and self-observation for 14 days. If they feel uncomfortable, they should seek medical treatment without delay and actively inform the doctor of their travel history. 

According to the province's prevention and control policy, travelers from overseas should strictly follow the "14+7+7" health management model: that is, after 14 days of concentrated quarantine, those who meet the conditions for release of quarantine will undergo seven-day home-based observation, and then perform a nucleic acid test at personal expense when this period expires. Those who have a negative nucleic acid test at the end of the health observation period will undertake another seven-day health monitoring period, and then perform a nucleic acid test, again at personal expense, when the quarantine ends.