The Beijing government has declared that all foreigners who come to the city will be quarantined for 14 days to prevent "imported" nCoV.

"Passengers from any country landing at Beijing airport will face a 14-day quarantine process," Zhang Xiang, an official of Beijing's capital city of Beijing, said in a press conference. today.

Earlier, Peng Jinghua, deputy director of the Beijing Disease Prevention Center, also issued a statement advising Chinese citizens living abroad when having symptoms of Covid-19 infection should not delay treatment. health facilities of the host country, and also avoid returning home to prevent nCoV from spreading across borders.

This is considered a new move by the Beijing city government to prevent nCoV "back" from China. The Chinese capital previously imposed a 14-day quarantine against people from high-risk countries including Italy, Iran, South Korea and Japan.

While the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic in China plummeted in the past week, officials are gradually worried about the risk of infection among people returning from current epidemic hotspots, such as Iran and Italy. Mainland China currently records 79 new cases of nCoV infection originating from abroad.

Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first visit to Wuhan yesterday, the center of the Covid-19 epidemic, to "examine disease prevention." Xi's visit is a sign that Chinese leaders believe that a series of strong restrictions, including the blockade of hundreds of millions of people, have brought the disease under control.

Covid-19 started in Wuhan in December 2019, so far has appeared in 119 countries and territories, leaving more than 119,000 people infected, 4,300 died. China currently records more than 80,000 infections, more than 3,000 deaths and more than 61,000 recover.