68 inspection points have been set up in the outskirts of Nanjing to check the health code and nucleic acid test report of the drivers and passengers amid the heightened COVID-19 prevention and control.
At the checkpoint of the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, the outbound lanes are separated into three lanes by traffic cones. The traffic police are inspecting the vehicles preparing to leave the city one by one.
The junction of 312 National Highway is separated into two lane and the workers were inspecting the vehicles leaving the city. With vehicles waiting in a long queue of 200 meters to 300 meters, every car had to be kept waiting two or three minutes.
The checkpoints are set up at all the roads leading out of the city.
Workers are posted to be on duty round the clock as drivers were requested to show their health code and their nucleic acid test report.
Drivers and passengers whose health code app are green are allowed to move ahead while those whose health code are yellow will be interrogated and sent back to the designated place for guarantee.
The municipal government has urged residents not to leave the city unless necessary. By Saturday, the number of locally transmitted confirmed cases in the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Nanjing had risen to 37, with another 20 asymptomatic cases, according to the Nanjing municipal health commission.
Nanjing started the second round of city-wide nucleic acid test on Sunday.
Nanjing had finished testing its 9.3 million residents as of July 23 when the city reported a total of 23 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 14 asymptomatic carriers that were recorded since July 20.
The State Council joint prevention and control mechanism against COVID-19 has sent a working team to Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, to provide guidance on epidemic response, according to information from the National Health Commission.
The team will help with local epidemic control efforts including medical treatment, epidemiological investigation, management of close contacts and community-level prevention and control.
Apart from Nanjing, Zhongshan in Guangdong province, Shenyang in Liaoning province, Ma'anshan in Anhui province, and Liyang and Suqian in Jiangsu province all reported locally transmitted cases involving people who had been to Nanjing as of July 23. All have further strengthened contagion responses.
In Zhongshan, a mass nucleic acid testing campaign began after it was reported that a local COVID-19 asymptomatic carrier was discovered on late July 22. A total of 435 close contacts have been put under medical observation.
In Anhui, the infected person, who lives in Jiangning, is the husband of a confirmed COVID-19 patient, a cleaner at the airport.
