China designates Guangdong Province and 19 other regions as 'Key Quarantine Management Areas' for next year

KDCA Prevents Inflow of Plague, Zoonotic Influenza, and Other Human Infectious Diseases

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency announced on the 17th that it has newly designated 19 countries as重点 quarantine management areas and will implement related measures starting January 1 next year.

重点 quarantine management areas refer to 'quarantine management areas' designated by quarantine authorities where quarantine infectious diseases are prevalent and there is a risk of inflow into the country, requiring intensive quarantine. These include areas where highly fatal and highly infectious Category 1 infectious diseases are prevalent. In the case of the United States and China, designations are made at the regional level rather than the national level.

From the previous list of 21重点 quarantine management countries, Mongolia, Colorado State in the United States, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, which were plague management areas until this year, have been removed. For avian influenza human infection management areas, Minnesota, Washington, California, and Pennsylvania in the United States, Guangdong Province, Jiangxi Province, and Hunan Province in China have been added, while the United Kingdom, Texas State in the United States, and Chongqing City in China have been excluded. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome重点 quarantine management areas, well known as MERS, remain the same with 13 countries including Lebanon and Bahrain.

Persons staying in or transiting through重点 quarantine management areas are required to submit Q-CODE (a quarantine information pre-entry system that assigns a QR code upon boarding an aircraft after entering quarantine information in advance) or a health status questionnaire to report their health condition to quarantine officers upon entry.

Jiyoungmi, Director of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, stated, "We will strengthen the provision of traveler health information and services through quarantine stations by conducting risk-based quarantine reflecting the global infectious disease situation promptly and establishing a quarantine system suitable for the international quarantine environment."

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