A COVID-19 epidemic control worker checks a passenger's health code at a railway station exit in Yantai, Shandong province on Nov 8. The latest COVID-19 outbreak has affected 16 provincial-level regions nationwide. [Photo by Tang Ke for China Daily]

Nantong Xingdong International Airport in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province published a notice updating its COVID-19 prevention measures on Nov 5.

The notice states that from 8 am on Nov 4, passengers who come to Nantong from provinces with locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases are required to possess a negative result from a nucleic acid test taken within 24 hours.

As of 11 am on Nov 4, there are 19 provinces in China with locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases. They are Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, the provinces of Gansu, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, Qinghai, Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Zhejiang, and Liaoning, as well as the municipalities of Chongqing and Beijing.

While many regions, including Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Gansu province, and Beijing, have brought the virus under control or are on track to achieving the goal, the COVID-19 outbreak situation in Heilongjiang, Hebei, Henan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Liaoning provinces, as well as Chongqing are still developing and requires close monitoring, according to Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commission's disease prevention and control bureau.

China will continue to implement its existing COVID-19 control measures as they are science-based, effective, and necessary amid the raging pandemic, said Wu.

For more information about Nantong Xingdong International Airport's measure against COVID-19, please contact: +086-0513-86860000