beijing chinas capital city on sunday stepped up measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus cases by virtually banning people from travelling to beijing from provinces with the high covid19 transmission ratesto further reinforce the shield against the covid19 pandemic beijing has rolled out a range of measures to strengthen the management of personnel returning from regions with relatively high virus transmission rates including imposing restrictions on their purchase of railway tickets and air services staterun global times reportedpeople from medium or highrisk regions or planning to return to beijing but have a travel history related to these regions will be prevented from buying tickets for air and railway services in addition if they choose to drive into the chinese capital they will also be persuaded to make a uturn and leave the paper saidseveral chinese cities including wuhan where the coronavirus first surfaced in december 2019 have reported resurgence of covid19 cases stated to be the delta variantthe global times report said health codes for people who are still in medium and highrisk regions will be adjusted to the yellow colour and anyone with a health code that is not green will not be allowed to board planes or trains bound for beijingpresenting a green health code will be a mustonly when medium and highrisk regions are downgraded to lowrisk or when travellers dont have a travel history in designated risk regions within 14 days can their yellow codes return to the normal green colourafter gaining a green health code passengers would also have to present a negative nucleic acid test result within 48 hours of boarding transport to return to beijingtravellers should inform their workplace or residence before their trip undergo a 14day health monitoring period and take a nucleic acid test on their day of arrival and another on their seventh day in beijing the daily reportedalso as part of efforts to shield the capital from the virus beijing daxing international airport has announced to suspend flight routes from 15 cities including hotspots of outbreaks such as nanjing yangzhou and zhangjiajie wen wu the airports deputy general manager told the daily on saturdaythe chinese mainland on saturday reported about 150 positive and asymptomatic cases from several provinces including jiangsu henan yunnan hubei and hunan according to the countrys national health commissionbeijing where the countrys top leadership resides also registered some cases during july last week though there were no reports of fresh cases in the past few daysstaterun xinhua news agency reported that the beijing municipal bureau of sports has urged all sports and fitness facilities to exercise stricter epidemic prevention and control measures as the highly contagious delta variant of covid19 spreadsa notice released by the bureau said that the number of people in sports facilities in beijing is increasing with great and frequent personnel exchanges which leads to severe challenges in epidemic prevention and control especially in areas such as swimming spots confined gyms and sports training facilitieschina has reported a total of 93701 infections