In addition to scanning venue codes and showing health codes, residents are also required to undergo a nucleic acid test within 24 hours after purchasing 42 designated types of medicines from the city’s drugstores, according to information released by the Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation.
The city also demanded real-name purchasing of 42 types of medicines including Lianhua Qingwen capsules, a form of Chinese herbal medicine, ibuprofen, and common antibiotics like amoxicillin. Residents should also follow up instructions given by pharmacy workers in registering their personal information.
When buying these 42 types of medicines, pharmacy staffers will give a notice to consumers to remind them to take a COVID test within 24 hours.
Personal information of those who bought the 42 types of medicines will be sent to the city’s epidemic prevention and control management platform and Guangdong Province medicine purchaser information system. Community workers will later be notified to follow up these purchasers’ health situation.
Many local COVID transmissions were detected among recorded medicine purchasers, Nanfang Plus reported.