What to do if Ur GD Health Code Turns Red or Yellow?


Now Shenzhen   |   October 13, 2022

According to local media, some Shenzhen citizens found their Guangdong Health Code (GHC) changed from green to yellow or even red. Some of them argued, however, that they haven’t been to places with risks or confirmed cases. What’s going on?


Who will have Yellow Code?

Usually:

  • Home health monitor people discharged from hospital or released from quarantine with no symptoms
  • People at medium to high risk areas and key places
  • People with yellow health code from other provinces, etc.

Who will have Red Code?

Usually:

  • Confirmed cases and asymptomatic infected people
  • Suspected cases
  • Close contacts
  • Close contacts of close contacts
  • Those under centralized quarantine
  • People at risk and need home quarantine for medical observation
  • People with red health code from other provinces

Well, if you don’t think you belong to any of the above-mentioned categories but your Green Code just disappears…What to do if you have any objection to the code colour? Check these 2 channels for appeal and consultation!

Channel 1: “粤康码” Mini-program

  • Open your GHC
  • Click here for “yellow code appeal” or “red code appeal”
  • The platform will then verify your appeal.


Channel 2
: Hotline 12345

Call 12345. 

The hotline accepts telephone consultation on epidemic prevention and control and also provides English-speaking services. 

Meanwhile, you should…

For Yellow Code

“Yellow Code personnel” should not enter public places including hotels, shopping malls, supermarkets, stations, airports, cinemas, KTV, bars, etc., special places including schools, prisons, nursing homes, welfare homes, etc.. If “Yellow Code personnel” visit the hospital, they should have a nucleic acid test at the “test spot for Yellow Code personnel” first.

“Yellow Code personnel” will receive a text message which may instruct them to have a nucleic acid test at nearby “test spot for Yellow Code personnel.” After the information is uploaded, the Yellow Code will automatically turn into a Green one.

Test spot for Yellow Code?

Search and follow “深圳卫健委” WeChat public account.

Click as follows:

Also, general hospitals of level 2 and above and general hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine have all set up “test spot for Yellow Code personnel.”


For Red Code

In all, “people with Red Code will be strictly controlled.”

Those who are infected must be treated and quarantined in designated health institutions, while others need to be centralized quarantined or home quarantined for medical observation as required. To transfer people with Red Code must be “point to point.”

If you found your GHC turns red, you need to perform quarantine at home or nearby quarantine places and avoid moving around. You also need to report to the community immediately and wait for nucleic acid test and to be transferred by staff.

ARTICLE FROM: AnyShenzhen