1. Duration of Lockdowns 

A 10-day lockdown is required for closed-off and controlled neighborhoods (villages). If the results of all the tests from environmental sources in a neighborhood (village) are negative, then the lockdown starts from the exact time of the infected people leaving the neighborhood (village). If any item from environment sources is tested positive, then the lockdown will start from the exact time of the completion of terminal disinfection. Once there is a new COVID-19 case or risk area (the newly-added risk area is not overlapped with the original ones and located outside the units of the original COVID cases), the duration of a lockdown will be rearranged.

2. Nucleic Acid Tests during Lockdowns 

Nucleic acid tests will be administered on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 10th days from the beginning day of the lockdown, and antigen self-tests will be conducted on the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th days.

3. Lifting of Restrictions

If all the testing results are negative, and the last close contacts have been absent for four days or more with negative test results, restrictions will be lifted after a 10-day lockdown and full assessment by authorities of pandemic prevention and control in the district. 

4. Adhering to Safety Standards 

After the restrictions are lifted, those in closed-off neighborhoods (villages) will be still under less intensified control for four more days, and then they will be under health monitoring for another four days before they are free.

(Source: The Beijing News)