England | Heathrow Airport (Getty Images/AFP/D. Leal-Olivas)
The embassy websites of China in Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Italy have issued urgent notices requiring personnel on flights to China to complete the sampling and testing of nucleic acid and serum IgM antibodies each within 48 hours before boarding, apply to local Chinese embassies and consulates for green and obtain health codes or health statements. A second nucleic acid test and a serum IgM antibody test in the transit country are also required, with a time limit for testing.
The measures will take effect on november 6,2020, after boarding with a paper report on nucleic acid testing at frankfurt and hamburg airport Centogene testing centers was suspended from november 6, according to chinese embassy in germany on friday. The circular also stressed that, in view of the fact that many transit airports do not have the conditions for testing, since November 6, Chinese embassies and consulates in Germany will in principle no longer accept applications for health codes or statements of health status China through third countries. Therefore, the embassy suggested that from Germany to China personnel in Germany after testing by direct flight to China.
The embassy also advised passengers outside Germany to avoid connecting to Germany. One of the reasons is that the test point of Frankfurt Airport in Germany does not have the condition of antibody detection. It takes a long time for the testing organization to issue the report in Frankfurt, sometimes it takes a few days, and the transfer personnel can not guarantee the test report on time.
Disheartened
However, the situation in Frankfurt described in the notice is also a common phenomenon in Germany, which makes many in Germany completely cut off the idea of a short and medium-term return. Ms. Bai (pseudonym), who was in Cologne, told the German voice that she had brought her children home every summer vacation. This year, because the epidemic did not take place, she was looking forward to Christmas New Year's Day holiday. Now it seems to be over. The old people in the family miss their children and are very sad.
Liu (pseudonym), who is studying in Munich, also admitted to journalist :" the new rule is to tell us that these people abroad must not come back, ah, I also give up, do not have to stare at the ticket every day. "
Similar frustration and frustration can be seen everywhere in the comments under the major Chinese forums and related articles. Like Xiao Liu, the new rules are directly interpreted as "disguised withdrawal" of Internet users. A Weibo user wrote ," Well, it's too cold. Why should foreign students be treated like this? Some small countries in Europe do not have direct flights at all. If you add the double negative proof of the third transfer country, it is basically equivalent to telling you not to return home! "
Most disappointed are those who have paid high prices to buy tickets for their recent return home, the emergency notice is like a blow to them, but crazy search and consultation with local testing agencies, consider refund, there seems to be no other way. The Weibo user who claimed to be studying in Germany ," Ordinary Meat Dumplings ", recorded :" I watched the social app build up one by one overseas epidemic prevention groups, everyone sent real-time news to help students and friends who had recently returned to China to find a way to rub up the ticket, and the online'basic'…… of public opinion Yes, no matter what the policy is, someone can go back, and you don't know what the price is for the person who goes back. But at this time I feel myself, do not say what is true Chinese or fake Chinese, even a fart I am not...... "
China Wuhan Flughafen Rührung vor Abreise (AFP/H. Retamal)
It's not easy to say "patriotic
In addition to the dissatisfaction and despair of overseas Chinese, the comments are full of understanding and support. On this point, a Twitter user asked :" do not understand the domestic people praise double negative thinking —— and other countries can so easily abandon their overseas citizen, called "sacrifice a small number of people, make more people ", the next time can be very easy to abandon the people in the country, how can you guarantee that you are not the next to be sacrificed? "
At first, the overseas Chinese who laughed at themselves that "the Chinese played the first half, the foreigners played the first half, and we played the whole game" also wanted to "don't play overtime ", but now things backfired, and the road back home became far away. For China's familiar slogans, a social app user said ," the door of the motherland is always open to you, is to change the lock, the key can not buy ". Another user complained that "the passport, which would have taken you home from anywhere in the world, seemed to have dimmed ".
Even more, it is argued that the new policy will help "those who are against China by hostile forces abroad ", while some respond that the policy will not, but the country really does not love. "It's really boring to feel at ease to develop in the host country ," wrote a user on the overseas Chinese community's" Stay in Garden.com ," after all, family and children are here. Here no one tells you what's the national situation, what's the sacrifice, and the relationship of the country is the real price, you abide by the law, pay taxes on time, your welfare benefits are a lot, otherwise you can go to court to say. "
In the debate, there was also a calm proposal :" It is understandable to raise the threshold of epidemic prevention should be raised, and that the people returning to China should be tested and isolated; in turn, such a strict epidemic prevention policy has been implemented. Should we also consider increasing flights to reduce fares? "
