China to Continue Anti-SARS Quarantine Measures

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, June 26, 2003

China to Continue Anti-SARS Quarantine Measures

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China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) announced Thursday plans to continue anti-SARS quarantine measures despite the World Health Organization removing Beijing from its list of SARS infected areas and lifting its travel advisory.

Tourists at entry-exit points will still receive anti-SARS quarantine measures, including medical checkup, filling in health declaration forms and registering temperature, said Wang Qinping, vice-director of AQSIQ.

He said the continuation of the measures was dependent on how the situation developed.

Local quarantine departments will continue strengthening quarantine measures to eliminate the possible import or export of SARS and enhance health quarantine facilities to improve responses to public health problems or biochemical terrorist attacks.

After the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome, AQSIQ and its local branches took a series of measures to cope with the emergency. They installed infrared temperature scanners in entry-exit passages and required all passengers to fill in health declaration forms.

Special passages were provided for tourists from areas where SARS was reported. Passengers with suspected SARS symptoms were put under medical observation and then sent to designated hospitals for quarantine. No confirmed or suspected SARS patient was allowed to leave.

Statistics from AQSIQ show national entry-exit points had screened the temperature of 24.682 million passengers from early April to June 24, in which 8,833 passengers showed symptoms similar to those of SARS and 624 people were sent to hospitals for further examination with five confirmed SARS patients.

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