To avoid infection, the plant is asking older workers who tested negative to take a rest for a week, and let newcomers begin work after quarantine, Guo added.

郭补充道，为了避免感染，工厂要求检测呈阴性的年长工人休息一周，并让新工人在隔离后开始工作。

We transferred at Amsterdam before reaching China, where we underwent a 10-day quarantine at a hotel in Xiamen.

我们在抵达中国之前在阿姆斯特丹转机，在厦门的一家酒店接受了为期10天的隔离。

In addition to having a QR code for tracking, each batch of cherries can only be admitted to the JD warehouse on the condition of having a COVID-19 nucleic acid testing report, inspection and quarantine certificate for entry goods, and a sanitization report.

每批樱桃除了要有二维码进行追踪外，还需要有新冠肺炎核酸检测报告、入境商品检验检疫证明和卫生处理报告才能进入京东仓库。

In addition, more efforts should be made to follow relevant inspection and quarantine from the Customs, and adopt stricter disinfection measures to ensure the safety of imported fresh produce and resolve consumer concerns.

此外，应加大力度遵守海关的相关检验检疫，并采取更严格的消毒措施，以确保进口新鲜农产品的安全，解决消费者的担忧。

Because of the temporary travel restrictions and quarantine measures implemented by many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed a large number of Chinese consumers to turn to domestic apparel brands, said Chen Dapeng, vice-president of the Beijing-based China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC).

"According to the Department of Health Quarantine of the General Administration of Customs, Chinese enterprises that send their employees overseas should enhance administration and guidance of employees, conduct epidemic analysis, and monitor employees' health conditions regularly.

The China Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Association anti-pandemic industry branch is committed to serving member companies, which will help promote the industrial upgrading, innovate in products offering and business models and foster the high-quality development of the industry, said Wang Xin, president of China Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Association.

As people in other countries are also under quarantine and still subject to social distancing measures, e-commerce is booming.

The programs reduce a 14-day quarantine requirement for international travelers to just one or two days.

China Eastern delivered boxed food to companies as well as medical staff and people undergoing coronavirus quarantine in Shanghai, and thus created new points of growth.

To make sure the project operates on schedule, the Guinea branch of the company has covered all the flight and quarantine expenses to send staff back to Guinea to push the project forward.

Testing has been offered to all workers at the factory on June 16 and those who tested negative are currently under quarantine at designated places since June 20.

About 480 employees were sent to concentrated quarantine and they all tested negative for the virus, Fan said on Sunday, adding the environment has been disinfected and sterilized twice in the past week.

"In the early days of the outbreak, each of our colleagues who went to hospitals for system maintenance needed to complete a 14-day quarantine," Kuang said.

The mechanism allows for Chinese and ROK professionals certified as coronavirus-free for a week to skip quarantine and go straight to work.

Upon arrival in China, they will need to take another COVID-19 and antibody test, and have to undergo a mandatory quarantine for 48 hours in Shanghai.

Following quarantine measures, people have had to rely on nearby stores or online channels for grocery purchase during the height of the pandemic, causing sales of many food e-commerce providers to soar.

Qiu gave detailed directions on when and how to use invasive ventilators, while Du answered questions regarding home quarantine and symptom management, including when people under home quarantine must go to a hospital for professional treatment.

The company's donation of 5,000 masks used in quarantine wards arrived in Mumbai, India, on March 12.

A report issued by Beijing-based consultancy All View Cloud said online retail channels are expected to contribute more than 70 percent to overall revenues in the first quarter as people are staying at home to quarantine themselves.

International SOS suggests foreign companies in China follow local regulations on quarantine, office and community behavior, and also update returning staff－especially foreign nationals－on the details of local regulations.

It is not only compatible with medical quarantine conditions, but also beneficial to healthcare providers by helping reduce their risk of infection, he said.

The outbreak has delayed production for some companies, as quarantine measures kept many workers from returning to work, said Zuo Liuliu, an official at CCPIT's commercial service center.

Subsequently, the entire company was put in quarantine.

Taobao was born in the quarantine period, and Alibaba was reborn.

Analysts said the country's State-owned energy giants have done a good job in ensuring domestic oil and gas production while in quarantine and helped prevent infection by the novel coronavirus during work.

It has decided that all workers who have come back to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland should postpone their plans to return to the mainland and work in Taiwan instead, while the employees returning from Wuhan to Taiwan should stay at home for quarantine and do not need to work.

"If the staff find abnormal conditions like high body temperature and heart rate, they'll immediately quarantine the animal," Xu said.

After a two-day journey from Kazakhstan, they arrived in Jeminay border pass in Xinjiang's Altay prefecture at the weekend and will settle down in Urumqi following a 45-day quarantine, according to Xinjiang Yema Group, which imported the horses.

The Shanghai border inspection and quarantine bureau has completed all necessary checks of the Seattle-based coffee chain's imported equipment for the cafe.

Two officials from Shandong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau check imported soybeans at Rizhao port, Shandong province.

The affected vehicles are Santa Fe models with 2.4-liter Theta GDI engines produced between Nov 29, 2012 and May 31, 2013 as well as those with 2.0-liter Theta GDI engines manufactured between Nov 29, 2012 and Nov. 30, 2013, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said on its website.

"In order to pass the quarantine inspection of Australia, we have translated Australian standards and import regulations on cut flowers, and offered training to flower farmers since last year," said Guo Xueliang, head of the city's entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureau.

Regarding trade in goods, the plan called for improving the management of special imported products such as medical devices and wines, and simplifying quarantine procedures on a trial base in the Shanghai FTZ.

For example, Xinsha Customs, a branch of Huangpu Customs, has implemented a 365-day, around-the-clock appointment-based clearance model for roll-on, roll-off vessels carrying vehicles, reducing the average quarantine and inspection time to within one hour.

When relevant imports enter the country, China's customs will carry out inspection and quarantine according to the law to ensure the safety and hygiene of the relevant products, it said.

The GAC introduced 23 guidelines, including optimizing inspection and quarantine operation modes, supporting the category expansion of bonded maintenance services and the establishment of production-related service facilities, and seeking ways to build innovation and trade in services-themed comprehensive bonded zones, as well as adjusting management of key commodities.

The new measures will optimize inspection and quarantine operations, launch the classified and graded management of checkpoints, and upgrade key commodity management.

It features more than 40 categories, covering green infrastructure, customs and quarantine, medicine and health, agricultural and food products, industrial parks, vocational education and other topics.

Wang Lingjun, deputy minister of the GAC, said the government will further deepen cooperation with relevant departments of African countries in inspection and quarantine, and expand the variety of agricultural and food products imported to China.

A wide range of activities will be arranged during the event, covering topics such as green infrastructure, Customs and quarantine, medicine and healthcare, agricultural products, light industry, industrial parks, women and youth as well as vocational education, he added.

Themed "Common Development for a Shared Future," the event will feature more than 40 activities of various kinds, covering green infrastructure, customs and quarantine, medicine and health, agricultural and food products, industrial parks, vocational education and other topics, Shen Yumou, head of the Hunan provincial department of commerce, said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Thanks to the nighttime quarantine of container ships and the new operation mode implemented by the port to save the docking time of ships, the waiting time for berth decreased by 44 percent year-on-year and the goods loading and unloading efficiency of container ships increased by 14 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, the group said.

Scrapping quarantine measures for international travelers may rekindle foreign investors' enthusiasm.

"China has repeatedly stressed that the inspection and quarantine and trade remedy measures taken by its government units strictly comply with Chinese laws and regulations, and the World Trade Organization rules, and it is inappropriate to misinterpret them as restrictive measures," she said.

Entry procedures have been simplified at the port, and it only takes about 10 seconds for a Mongolian lorry driver to enter the country after completing intelligent procedures such as a health declaration and customs health quarantine, thus improving customs clearance efficiency.

From Jan 8, China scrapped the quarantine requirement for international arrivals.

Given the development of the epidemic, the increase in vaccination levels, and extensive epidemic prevention experience, China's health authorities announced they would downgrade the management of COVID-19 and remove it from infectious disease management requiring quarantine as of Sunday.

The shipments, imported by COFCO, will be transported to domestic feed processors via both land and water routes after quarantine and clearing inspection, said the Beijing-based State-owned enterprise.

According to the latest travel policy, announced by the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism on Dec 27 and to take effect on Jan 8, international passengers arriving in the Chinese mainland no longer need to quarantine or undergo a nucleic acid test on arrival.

China has stepped up optimization of COVID-19 controls since November and will scrap the quarantine requirement for international arrivals from Sunday.

The virus is now treated as a Class B infection, with COVID-related quarantine regulations eased and restrictions on international flights lifted.

The central government announced optimized epidemic control measures on Nov 11 and Dec 7, lifting restrictions on domestic travel, allowing home quarantine for asymptomatic and mild cases and cutting mass nucleic acid testing.

The tone-setting conference was held after China optimized its anti-virus approach to allow home quarantine for asymptomatic and mild cases and cut mass nucleic acid testing, among others.

They also allow infected people with mild or no symptoms to quarantine at home.

China should speed up the inspection and quarantine of competitive agricultural products from Arab states and import more agricultural products from there and help with the economic diversification efforts of Arab states, it said.

A total of 543 metric tons of fruit, including bananas, longan and durian, which had been loaded in Vientiane, Laos, departed from Mohan Railway Station to their destinations across the country after inspection and quarantine.

The fruits, which were loaded in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, passed through the Friendship Tunnel on the China-Laos border on Dec 1 before arriving at the Mohan railway port for inspection and quarantine.

Mo said the measures will also benefit the country's foreign trade with a shortened quarantine period.

Among these measures, China released a circular last week on further optimizing the COVID-19 response, announcing 20 prevention and control measures, such as cutting the COVID-19 quarantine period for close contacts and inbound travelers, among others.

The new measures, shortening the quarantine period and minimizing the number of people whose movement is restricted, are expected to help lift China's economic growth by increasing the continuity of economic activity, they said.

Since last year, Customs authorities on the mainland have repeatedly detected quarantine pests, such as plant matter that could negatively affect the mainland market if it were not controlled, as well as excessive amounts of the chemical pesticides fenthion and dimethoate in citrus fruit shipped to the mainland from Taiwan.

"Given some recent material steps taken to ease COVID controls, including reducing inbound quarantine times by half and removing the 'asterisk' on travel itinerary e-cards, we expect mobility to improve further and growth momentum to remain positive in July," said Lu Ting, chief China economist at Nomura.

Cheng Youquan, deputy director of the National Health Commission's supervision bureau, said at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday that the commission has noticed that some local authorities have recently placed random restrictions and quarantine measures on people from Shanghai or other areas previously hit by COVID-19.

"For the COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutic drugs, and other anti-epidemic materials, we'll accelerate the procedures for health and quarantine approval," said Liu.

All infections were found within quarantine and lockdown populations.

All districts in Shanghai have achieved zero new COVID-19 infection outside quarantine and lockdown populations, local authorities said at the Tuesday conference.

When quarantine restrictions are lifted, I won't cut my hair three times within a single month.

The government can set up a special fund to cover their expenses related to COVID-19 prevention, such as nucleic acid testing, quarantine costs and treatment.

After transforming four building blocks into quarantine facilities in Shanghai's Songjiang district on April 6, China Construction Second Engineering Bureau Ltd, a subsidiary of Beijing-headquartered China State Construction Engineering Corp, immediately mobilized 230 workers to the No 2 exhibition hall at a temporary hospital in the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai's Qingpu district to install 7,769 beds, and build nursing stations and storage rooms at the venue within 48 hours.

The regions will actively convert domestic and international standards, and improve the mutual recognition level for inspection, quarantine, certification and accreditation, according to the MOC.

With 50,000 beds expected to offer, the hospital is set to enhance the city's capacity for the quarantine of patients.

Cameron has promised to pay close attention to health regulations and strictly abide by the requirements of quarantine inspection and risk controls, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam recently urged Vietnamese enterprises to strictly abide by China's regulations on quality inspections, quarantine, product traceability and packaging of imported agricultural products, and strictly implement related pandemic prevention and control measures.

It reflects more the quality of various services and the condition of infrastructure in the entire transportation process, which includes all aspects of railway operation and inspection, quarantine, customs clearance, etc.

The RCEP members are expected to set high-level Customs rules, inspection and quarantine norms, as well as technical standards.

Instead of getting treatment at a beauty salon, quarantine has led people to begin to try skincare machines at home, which brings the industry huge opportunities, according to Qiu, and Artistic&Co expects to take advantage of the CIIE as a platform to offer Chinese users professional, effective and safe beauty services.

Despite some countries having abandoned contagion prevention and quarantine measures, their vaccination programs have progressed rapidly.

Inbound passengers whose destination is not Guangzhou will be asked not to leave Guangzhou for other cities on the Chinese mainland until after they have completed quarantine in Guangzhou, the statement said.

The UAE capital is now open to all vaccinated travelers without the need for quarantine, as well as unvaccinated visitors from its green list countries, including China.

The Customs district has also upgraded the China-ASEAN cooperation information website on quality supervision, inspection and quarantine into a smart platform this year.

Zhi, former director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said he's seen huge growth potential in China's vast consumer market and there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Aimed at increasing support for foreign trade enterprises in the country and easing their problems, the government last year accelerated the process of granting permission to agricultural products and food imports, shortened the length of time for quarantine examination and approval and allowed applications that meet the requirements to be submitted and approved at the same time.

Before the official removal of quarantine policies by different countries, it is difficult to see a significant improvement in crude oil demand, and the decline of price of crude oil, which is the most upstream product in the energy and chemical industry, has created a huge decline space for the prices of energy and chemical products.

The quarantine measures caused by the pandemic have forced many people to switch from traditional offline shopping to online shopping, boosting cross-border e-commerce.

Ethan Bai, CEO of Shenzhen-based frozen meat and seafood import platform Optima Integration Group, said: "Before entering the market, our imported frozen foods must obtain four certificates－Customs inspection and quarantine certificates, disinfection certificates, nucleic acid testing certificates and information tracing certificates.

Excluding the inevitable negative impact brought by quarantine, it has had positive impacts on the number of media users and quality of media content.

In the second quarter of the year, when most countries were still in the thick of quarantine, China's factories were resuming production and its cities were emerging from lockdown, giving the economy a much-needed boost.

Singapore, a city-state and key global travel node, has kept its borders largely shut for most of 2020 and won international plaudits for its handling of the virus, which has included rigorous contact tracing and strict quarantine rules.

Thirty-seven animal and plant quarantine procedures related to trading in farm produce under the first-phase China-US economic and trade agreement have been completed on time and with high quality, a customs official said on Monday.

China has implemented the Sino-US phase-one trade deal in an orderly way and expanded bilateral cooperation in the area of agriculture, said Zhao Zenglian, director of the department of animal and plant quarantine at the General Administration of Customs.

"Since the implementation of the trade deal, we have properly resolved the quarantine access issues of US agricultural products such as potatoes, barley and pet food, lifted the avian flu epidemic ban on US poultry products, and allowed them to be exported to China," said Zhao.

For example, the government continues to promote the implementation works after the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement took effect in 2017, guide enterprises to apply for paperless import and export documents, further improve the efficiency of Customs clearance, and provide more convenience during the inspection and quarantine procedures.

All such exhibitors and exhibition participants will be subject to a 14-days quarantine at designated hotels, and will undergo nucleic acid tests two more times on the fifth and 12th day, respectively, during their quarantine periods.

Those who test negative and do not show any health problems during the entire procedure will end quarantine and leave to participate in the exhibition, according to the government announcement.

It also said quarantine measures will be carried out on all imported items for the CIIE, and food items from cold chain logistics will be subject to standardized sampling, monitoring and disinfection.

China and South Africa signed an agreement in June last year regarding the quarantine of soybeans imported to China, as cooperation in agriculture between China and Africa has been growing in recent years.

The rapid growth of e-commerce has spurred the market, so trading in it needs to improve to global standards, said the China Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Association.

Given the pandemic protocols, they underwent a two-week quarantine in a hotel in Shanghai before attending the event.

With the opening of more long-distance international air routes, the international flight market is on a steady recovery since China eased its COVID-related quarantine requirements," said Kong Yue, deputy general manager of the Daxing airport, which became operational in September 2019.