The notification of implementing the reporting system for personnel returning to and entering Guangxi from outside the Chinese mainland has been issued by the Leading Group of COVID-19 Prevention and Control of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on March 14, 2020 to strictly prevent imported cases of the COVID-19 epidemic. Please act upon the notification as follows:

1. If there are any family members who plan to return to and enter Guangxi from outside the Chinese mainland, the family must report the information of the returned family members and relatives to corresponding towns and townships (administrative streets), villages (communities), and the working units of the returned members or the working units of the family members. The information should include, but not be limited to their names, countries and cities where they are staying right now, date of return, detailed travel routes (including flight transit), means of travel, contact number, and their health conditions.

In addition, the family must cooperate with the corresponding towns and townships (administrative streets), villages (communities), and working units in the latter's effort to exercise management and provide services. Upon receiving relevant information, corresponding towns and townships (administrative streets) and villages (communities) must immediately report the information to the superior leading groups of COVID-19 prevention and control at the county and municipal levels.

2. All working units with the plan to invite, receive or arrange the personnel returning to and entering Guangxi from outside the Chinese mainland must report 48 hours in advance the relevant information of the returned personnel to the corresponding city-level and county-level leading groups of COVID-19 prevention and control. The information should include, but not be limited to the returned personnel's names, countries and cities where they are staying right now, date of return, detailed travel routes (including flight transit), means of travel, contact number, and their health conditions. The returned personnel should also proactively cooperate with relevant authorities to undergo quarantine for medical observation.

3. All hotels and guesthouses must exercise good management by registering the information of guests, and immediate report the information to the local leading group of COVID-19 prevention and control once they find guests who are returning to and entering Guangxi outside the Chinese mainland.

4. All government departments and public institutions must exercise strict management of their employees' passports, and strictly implement the system of asking for leave and finishing leave to resume work, with all the information registered and put on record. Government officials and employees of public institutions must faithfully report their personal whereabouts when asking for leave and mustn't travel abroad or leave the Chinese mainland, especially to countries or regions seriously affected by COVID-19. All working units must faithfully report the information of their employees and the employees' relatives who return to and enter Guangxi from outside the Chinese mainland to the local leading group of COVID-19 prevention and control.

5. All personnel returning to and entering Guangxi from outside the Chinese mainland must be subject to quarantine at designated sites and other measures after they have been tested without abnormal conditions. For those who have such symptoms, such as fever, cough, sore throat, chest distress, breathing difficulties, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, and diarrhea, or who have had contact with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, they must immediately go to the closest medical institution for diagnosis and treatment, and report such information to corresponding villages (communities) and follow their management.

6. All personnel from outside the Chinese mainland must report to the customs and border control staff the information regarding their activities and stays in the past 14 days outside mainland China, and cooperate with the staff for inspection, check, and quarantine for medical observation.

7. The accountability mechanism must be strictly enforced. The working units, families, and individuals who are late or fail to fully report the information, conceal facts, or report false information of the returned personnel from outside the Chinese mainland with serious consequences caused must be held legally accountable pursuant to laws and regulations. Those working units, towns and townships (administrative streets), communities, and villages with mismanagement and dereliction of duty shall also be held accountable. The personnel from outside mainland China who intentionally conceal or do not faithfully report their information must not only bear the relevant costs during the quarantine period, but also other costs directly incurred from their aforementioned wrong practices.

8. If members of the general public have found that the returned personnel from outside the Chinese mainland have entered Guangxi illegally, failed to faithfully report their information after entry or disobeyed the quarantine regulations, they can give the tip-off to the city-level and county-level leading groups of COVID-19 prevention and control. If the tip-off is true after investigation, the whistle-blower will be given rewards ranging from 3,000 yuan ($428.93) to 10,000 yuan (such funds will be borne by the city-level and county-level leading groups which deal with the case, and the corresponding-level finance should offer financial support).

All city-level and county-level leading groups of COVID-19 prevention and control must designate personnel to be on duty and investigate any of these potential cases, open special telephone lines to timely receive reports of the travel information of relevant personnel and the tip-offs, and provide management and service according to laws and regulations.

9. This regulation shall go into effect upon the date of its issue, and expire upon the date of the relief of the COVID-19 emergency response.