Beijing tightens anti-epidemic policy for cold-chain employees

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Beijing has tightened its anti-epidemic measures after several COVID-19 cases were reported in recent days. The city now requires all workers in its imported cold-chain food industry to take nucleic acid tests every three days instead of every seven days as previously mandated.

Lang Zhiqiang, a food safety official from the city's market supervision authority, made the announcement at a news conference Thursday.

According to the new policy, people living together with cold-chain workers must get tested once every 15 days, and people working in the catering and food production sectors, supermarkets, convenience stores, and other food businesses, as well as beauty and hair salons, must take nucleic acid tests every 10 days.

Beijing has some 33,700 cold-chain workers, according to Lang. Since this year, 134,200 nucleic acid tests have been conducted among them and their co-residents, and 72,600 pieces of food and packaging as well as 566,000 areas related to food production and operation have also been tested.

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