Beijing: The health QR code system launched in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in early February to curb the spread of Covid-19 now has an international edition targeting overseas Chinese returning to Zhejiang, as well as foreign students and foreigners residing in the province, to tighten control over imported cases.Data from the Health Commission of Zhejiang revealed that by Monday there had been 15 imported cases of the infection in the province.
Chen Guangsheng, executive deputy director of the province’s leading group for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus, noted that the international health codes are categorised by orange, yellow or green according to the health and travel information applicants give.