To control the risks of import and transmission of the epidemic and ensure a safe, orderly, and happy May Day holiday, the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease and Prevention Control (Hunan CDC) on April 27th gave the following suggestions:

Keep close attention to COVID-19 epidemic situations, and do not travel to other provinces unless necessary
 
The Hunan people who live in regions with the risk of COVID-19 virus spreading are advised against returning to Hunan Province unless necessary. The people who live in Hunan are advised against traveling to other provinces or other cities in the province. Likewise, travels to the regions with COVID-19 local cases, nor cross-border travels should be avoided.

The public servants must avoid traveling to the regions with medium or high-risk areas (lockdown and control areas). Those who need to go to other provinces should get the approval by the persons in charge of their units. Beyond that, they should report to relevant authorities in advance of their returns, provide negative COVID-19 nucleic acid test results within 24 hours, and carry out critical epidemic prevention and control measures.

Travels to the medium or high-risk areas, or the regions with such places, are restricted. Travels to other areas in the regions with medium or high risk areas are advised to be avoided unless necessary.

People who live in the medium or high-risk areas, or the regions with such areas, should avoid traveling. Those who live in other areas in the regions with medium or high-risk areas are advised against traveling unless necessary. In addition, they must provide negative testing results within 48 hours.

Traveling and gathering should be avoided unless necessary, especially for the elderly, people with underlying health conditions, and pregnant women.

The people who have a fever, or hold yellow health codes, should fulfill their responsibility for epidemic prevention, including collaborating with health monitoring and nucleic acid testing. Travels should be avoided before they are confirmed  not infected.

Workers in high-exposure risk jobs should avoid traveling. Those who need to travel should suspend their work for at least 14 days before travel, provide negative nucleic acid test results within 48 hours, and report to their units in advance.
 
All the people who come or return to Hunan Province must provide negative COVID-19 nucleic acid testing results within 48 hours.

All the people who come or return to Hunan Province should report their travels in advance via the Hunan Health Code and destination registration mini-programs, report to the units, villages, or communities of destination, provide negative nucleic acid testing results within 48 hours, and carry out critical epidemic prevention and control measures.
 
The people who cause epidemic spread due to the failure to report, or deliberate concealing of travel and living histories will be subject to legal liability according to the law.

The people from the regions with outbreaks of local cases should be investigated and controlled on a region-specific and categorized basis. The people who enter Hunan Province and have been in the medium or higher risk areas, or lockdown and control areas within 14 days, or have overlapped activities with any person who tested positive must be quarantined for a 14-day medical observation and take nucleic acid tests at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 10th, and 14th day. The people who come from other provinces where local cases have been reported should provide negative nucleic acid testing results within 48 hours and take the nucleic acid test when entering Hunan on the spot. They are advised to take another nucleic acid test on the 7th day after their arrival.

Improve health conditions, and take proper personal protection

The Hunan CDC advised the public to maintain good health habits, including wearing masks, washing hands frequently, frequently ventilating, avoiding gatherings, eating separately, using serving chopsticks, and maintaining a social distance of one meter. People are advised to prepare masks and disinfection supplies and required to collaborate with the anti-epidemic measures, including scanning venue codes, showing health codes, and taking nucleic acid tests.

Large-scale gatherings should be reduced during holiday. The number of attendants for the gatherings in closed space should be limited to not more than 50, and that for family gatherings should be not more than 10.

People who have a fever or respiratory symptoms such as cough before departing for travel, need to suspend their travel plans. Suppose, such symptoms as fever, cough, fatigue and diarrhea are found during travels. In that case, the travel should be suspended, and the symptomatic traveler should go to the hospital immediately and take the nucleic acid test and risk investigation.

A 14-day health monitoring is needed after returning from travel. Close attention should also be put to the health conditions of the family. Please go to the hospital immediately and report exposure or travel histories.

People are advised to accept COVID-19 vaccines to build an immunity barrier. Vaccination is an effective measure for preventing COVID-19 virus infection and reducing severe cases. Those eligible, especially the elderly, are advised to accept an entire course of vaccination. People aged over 18 years are recommended to receive booster shots six months after an entire vaccination course is completed.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
 
Translator: Pang Yuehui
 
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn