Woman hid she had coronavirus and traveled by plane: sentenced to one year in prison

Shunyi District People’s Court Beijing, in China, condemned one year in prison and one year on probation to a woman to have hidden symptoms coronavirus to the crew of a flight the United States.

Woman named Li Jiem, 38, was returning to her country March 2020 after spending time with his family in the United States.

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But before the flight that I had fever and that’s why he went to the hospital, where he checked his contacts with infected people. However, he also decided to return to China to be treated, according to the newspaper China Daily.

Upon arriving in Beijing, the woman was identified as confirmed case of COVID-19. His sentence was handed down on October 15 last year, but it was not revealed until Tuesday.

For this reason, 63 people who had been in contact with her were contacted quarantine by health authorities.

The crime for which Li Jiem was convicted was that of obstructing the prevention of infectious diseases by failing to comply with Chinese pandemic control regulations.

Hisopados anal

China began to use hisopados anal to test people considered to be most at risk of COVID-19 contagion, according to a new modality envisaged more efficient to identify the virus.

Health officials took swabs of the new type last week from residents of the neighborhood of Beijing with confirmed cases of coronavirus, state network said CCTV.

Small but multiple The virus outbreaks mainly affect China in the north, in addition to Beijing and Shanghai. It encourages planning massive tests, even where until now pharyngeal and nasal swabs were mainly used.

The anal sampling method “can increase reliability rate investigation of those infected ”because the traces of the virus persist more in the anus than in the respiratory tract, he commented with CCTV Li Tongzeng, doctor at You’an Hospital in the Chinese capital.

However, since CCTV made sure on Sunday that the anal swabs would not be used on a large scale like the other methods, because the technique “was not practical”.

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With increasing cases around the world, China has imposed demands more severe on international arrivals on its territory in an attempt to keep indoor transmission close to zero.

In Beijing, for example, a protocol of two weeks of quarantine is planned at the Covid Hotel, another of domestic isolation and a fourth of “observation”, during which it is possible to go out but avoiding public meetings.