People who were close contacts of COVID-19 traveled to Beihai, Guangxi. Why weren’t they quarantined?

According to the Guangxi Beihai Municipal Health Commission, on the afternoon of October 20, the Beihai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention received a letter from another province regarding assisting in the investigation of a close contact with COVID-19. On October 1, 2020, Li He took a flight from France and arrived in China, where he was quarantined until October 15. On October 16, Li took a bus to the airport. On October 17, Liu, who was on the same bus, returned to his place of origin and took a nucleic acid test again. The result was positive, and Li is currently traveling in Beihai City.

Beihai City, Guangxi Province immediately organized an epidemiological investigation on Li and other related persons, and collected accounts for testing. The result of the first nucleic acid test of Li, a close contact with the new coronavirus, was negative, and he did not have any symptoms of discomfort.

On October 17, Qingdao City, Shandong Province held a press conference. At the meeting, the Deputy Mayor of the People’s Government of Qingdao City and the Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau investigated the diagnosis of taxi driver Shao, who was a confirmed patient. The situation was reported. Shao carried passengers 183 times. As of noon on October 16, the last passenger was traced, and 231 passengers were traced in the same day, and the nucleic acid test results of these people were all negative.

Up to now, epidemic control, isolation, and control measures have been taken for all relevant personnel, and the nucleic acid test results of these relevant personnel have all been negative.

I think it is not necessary to isolate if you have no symptoms or the nucleic acid test result is negative. After all, it is not a pleasant thing to isolate a person for two weeks, but we also hope that nothing will go wrong and no one will be infected with the new coronavirus.

Since the rise of the new coronavirus pneumonia, everyone is afraid that the virus will find them, but everyone should not panic too much and believe in the ability of medical staff and the ability of China. Now China is already the world’s most vulnerable country. Now that we are in a safe place, we must calm down.