A ground staff worker cleans a parked passenger aircraft of China Eastern Airlines at Beijing Capital International Airport
Starting Monday, Beijing will redirect all the inbound flights scheduled to land at Beijing Capital International Airport to 12 designated airports where passengers' health condition will be checked.
All arriving international passengers in Beijing must first fly to one of the 12 airports for health screening and quarantine, according to a notice jointly issued on Sunday by multiple national agencies.
Passengers wear face masks upon their arrival at Beijing Capital Airport
Passengers who do not exhibit symptoms will be allowed to reboard their planes to Beijing, it added.
The airports in Tianjin,Taiyuan, in Shanxi province, and Hohhot, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, have been handling such diverted inbound flights since Friday.
Added to the list are airports in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province; Jinan and Qingdao, Shandong province; Nanjing, Jiangsu province; Shenyang and Dalian, Liaoning province; Zhengzhou, Henan province; Xi'an, Shaanxi province; and Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
The capital also requires that passengers arriving from other countries take strengthened nucleic acid tests for COVID-19.