A total of 258 Shenzhen travelers stranded in Sanya, Hainan Province, after the area’s recent COVID-19 flareups, had returned to the city in two chartered flights Friday and Sunday, according to Shenzhen Fabu, the Shenzhen Government Information Office’s official WeChat account.
Shenzhen pandemic prevention and control headquarters worked closely with its counterparts in Hainan to transport stranded Shenzhen travelers back to the city. The returned travelers then underwent nucleic acid test upon landing.
Hainan Province registered 4,390 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 4,493 asymptomatic ones between Aug. 1 and Sunday, local authorities said at a press briefing yesterday.
The COVID-19 situation in Sanya continues to develop, with the daily infection numbers still high. Most new infections were found among people under quarantine, according to the provincial COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters.
The epidemic situation in some of Hainan’s cities and counties, including Danzhou and Lingshui, is in the development stage, with community transmission identified.
Hainan has helped visitors stranded in the province return home. By Sunday, 27,211 stranded visitors had left Sanya and the provincial capital Haikou by plane.
The province’s tourism authorities had set up six task forces to guide local governments in Sanya, Wanning, Lingshui, Qionghai, Haikou, Danzhou, Lingao and Dongfang to send stranded passengers back to their home destinations.