Can I travel across provinces or countries now?

No, the Central Leading Group for Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic has issued the Guiding Opinions on Actively and Orderly Promoting the Work of Resuming Work while Effectively Preventing and Controlling the Epidemic (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions), requiring the national cultural and sports activities and cross-provincial cross-border tourism to be temporarily suspended.

In low-risk areas, the operator decides the time to return to work independently, and controls the personnel density by means of appointment, diversion and flow restriction. National cultural and sports activities and cross-provincial cross-border tourism will not be resumed for the time being. Improve the relevant prevention and control measures of logistics express delivery industry, and allow express delivery personnel to enter the community (village) for distribution.

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The Opinions require that:

First, it is necessary to compact the main responsibility of local and unit epidemic prevention and control. Strictly implement the requirements of the Guidelines for Prevention and Control Measures of Enterprises and Institutions in Different Risk Areas of China, do a good job in ventilation and disinfection, health monitoring and access management, implement the personal protection requirements of employees, and minimize personnel gathering and collective activities.

The second is to combine normalization prevention and control with emergency response. Maintain the system of fever clinic and pre-inspection and triage, standardize the emergency handling process of epidemic situation, immediately start the response plan and implement precise control once an epidemic situation occurs, and release the epidemic situation information openly and transparently.

Third, it is necessary to restore production order by division and classification. Low-risk areas should change from emergency unconventional prevention and control to normal prevention and control, cancel prevention and control measures incompatible with normal production and living order in time, and not delay the resumption of work by means of approval and filing.

People's Daily Online-The central government has made it clear that national cultural and sports activities and cross-provincial and cross-border tourism will not be resumed for the time being.