From November 11th, those who take flights to China will need a double negative certificate

*This article is reproduced from "Seattle Online"


From November 2020, 11, from the United States,Canada, France, Italy and many other countriesChinese and foreign passengers who take a flight to China must board the flight with a negative test for new coronavirus nucleic acid and a negative test for serum specific IgM antibodies ("serum antibody") provided by a testing agency recognized by the country within 2 days before boarding , Both are indispensable.



According to the notice, from November 11th, all returning passengers on flights must complete a nucleic acid and serum IgM antibody test at the testing agency of their home country within 6 hours before boarding, and obtain a certificate of negative nucleic acid and antibody test. Afterwards, according to the test site, apply to the local Chinese embassy and consulate and obtain a green health code or health status statement with the "HS" logo.


If it is a connecting flight, a second nucleic acid test and serum IgM antibody test are required in the transit country, and the embassy and consulate of the transit country (departure country for direct flights to China) should apply for the tie "HS" respectively. ”Green health code or health statement.


The global epidemic situation is not optimistic, and epidemic prevention cannot be relaxed


Under the double-negative certificate regulations, many netizens living overseas have expressed that the requirements for returning home are higher, which means that the global impact of the epidemic has further increased.Yingying (pseudonym), who studied in France, said that Charles de Gaulle Airport will no longer provide testing for transit passengers from October 10, which made her plan to return to China before the end of the month to be interrupted.


She told reporters: "Some of my classmates returned to China in April and May this year. At that time, the epidemic in Europe was not as severe as it is now. I thought about waiting. I didn't expect the policy to be so strict now."


The reporter checked the official website notices of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, the British Embassy in the United Kingdom, and the Embassy in France, and found that if both the nucleic acid test and the serum antibody test are required to be negative, there are regulations for retesting the transit flight.Moreover, the major airports of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other countries do not have the testing conditions, and the transit time is only three or four hours, which makes it basically impossible to return to China by connecting flights.As for the development trend of the global epidemic, on October 10, Academician Zhong Nanshan stated at the 31nd Chinese Physician Public Welfare Conference in 2020 that the current global epidemic is not over and the situation is not optimistic.Therefore, our epidemic prevention measures and practices cannot be relaxed, and prevention and control work must be continued.



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