Beijing-bound flights to first undergo screening at different airport

BEIJING - The Civil Aviation Authority of China on Sunday announced that all flights to Beijing will first have to stop at one of 12 designated airports for health checks before being allowed into the capital as the country steps up efforts to keep out imported coronavirus cases.

Passengers will be made to disembark for health checks and those who pass will be allowed to reboard the plane, which will then fly to Beijing. For the first time in three days, the country has reported a new local infection, in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. According to local health authorities, it is the first known case where a local infection was linked to someone arriving from overseas.

But there are fears of a second wave of infections from returning Chinese - mostly students - trying to escape the global pandemic.Editor-in-chief of the nationalistic Global Times tabloid Hu Xijin called on all cities to implement a 14-day quarantine for international arrivals, asking that it also apply to those entering from Hong Kong and Macau.

Separately, Shanghai and Guangzhou both said that all arriving international passengers will undergo a genetic material test known as the RNA test to screen for coronavirus, expanding a programme that previously only applied to those coming from heavily-hit countries.

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