Before flying to Beijing from Singapore, a low-risk country that has used an all-of-society approach to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, I was required to submit to the Chinese embassy negative results for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serology tests taken less than 72 hours before my flight.
After landing in Shenzhen, I was tested again for COVID-19 and spent two weeks in quarantine in a hotel. I underwent two more PCR tests during my stay in Shenzhen, and traveled to Beijing where I spent seven days in isolation in a hotel room.
Even though I reached home after 21 days and six negative tests for COVID-19, I needed to report my health status to the community twice a day using WeChat.
The community conducted a final PCR test on the 28th day of my arrival in China, which ended my quarantine, isolation and self-observation period.
It is amazing that even more than one year after the outbreak of novel coronavirus, China continues to have in place strict prevention and control measures for international and domestic travelers.
As someone living in Beijing when the epidemic broke out last year, I witnessed the strategies used by the government to prevent the spread of the virus and played my part by using apps such as the "Health Kit" and QR(quick response) code. This was long before the world realized that people too have the responsibility of taking measures to prevent the spread of the virus. In fact, Western media narratives were mostly critical of large-scale lockdowns and quarantine measures at the time.
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