Huizhou’s latest epidemic prevention policy

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 11th: The Comprehensive Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council announced on the 11th the "Notice on Further Optimizing Prevention and Control Measures for the New Coronavirus Epidemic and Carrying Out Scientific and Accurate Prevention and Control Work." The notice pointed out that the Party Central Committee has made important arrangements and put forward clear requirements for 20 measures to further optimize prevention and control work. All localities and departments must implement all optimization measures to the letter.

(1) For close contacts, the management measures of "7 days of centralized isolation and 3 days of home health monitoring" will be adjusted to "5 days of centralized isolation and 3 days of home isolation". During this period, they will be assigned code management and are not allowed to go out. A nucleic acid test will be conducted on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th days of centralized isolation medical observation, and a nucleic acid test will be conducted on the 1st and 3rd days of home isolation medical observation.

(2) Determine close contacts promptly and accurately, and no longer determine close contacts.

(3) Adjust the "7-day centralized quarantine" for the spillover personnel in high-risk areas to "7-day home quarantine". During this period, they will be assigned a code to manage and they will not be allowed to go out. A nucleic acid test will be conducted on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th days of home isolation.

(4) Adjust the risk areas from the three categories of "high, medium and low" to the two categories of "high and low" to minimize the number of control personnel. In principle, areas such as the residences of infected persons and workplaces and activity areas with frequent activities and high risk of epidemic transmission are designated as high-risk areas. High-risk areas are generally demarcated in units and buildings and shall not be expanded at will; high-risk areas Other areas in the county (city, district, banner) where the risk area is located are designated as low-risk areas. No new infections were found in the high-risk area for five consecutive days, and it was reduced to a low-risk area. High-risk areas that meet the conditions for unblocking must be unblocked in a timely manner.