Can I work from home during home health monitoring?
Yes, you may work from home during home health monitoring.
Home health monitoring allows necessary work and daily outings while maintaining personal protection. The focus is on self-monitoring for potential risks—tracking temperature and symptoms daily—while consciously limiting activities and maintaining social distance. It requires fulfilling personal obligations and social responsibilities, with non-essential outings discouraged. Commuting often involves public transit and contact with many people. For safety, working from home is advisable.
Can I go out during the 14-day health monitoring period?
Only if absolutely necessary.
There is no mandatory requirement to stay home during the 14-day health monitoring period. If going out is essential, wear a mask properly throughout the entire outing and follow proper procedures, such as wearing a mask when grocery shopping, picking up packages, or getting takeout. Maintain a safe social distance.
However, avoid group activities like exhibitions, tourism, or gatherings. Do not enter specific institutions such as schools, nursing homes, or welfare centers. Stay away from enclosed indoor venues like theaters, dance halls, bathhouses, or internet cafes. Refrain from in-person teaching or training activities. Limit your movements and avoid traveling across regions.
Home health monitoring requirements do not mandate a full 14-day period. Individuals returning home for less than 14 days should comply with home health monitoring and nucleic acid testing requirements based on their actual return duration.
For example, if you have only a 7-day holiday and return home for 7 days, you need to undergo a nucleic acid test on the seventh day and may then depart according to your plans. It is not mandatory to complete a full 14-day monitoring period locally before leaving.
Is a 14-day quarantine required after returning to work post-holiday?
Individuals returning to cities must comply with destination-specific epidemic prevention requirements.
For instance, Nanjing mandates strict employee travel management: non-essential out-of-city travel is prohibited, and a registration/approval system is implemented for departures and returns. Companies must submit employee travel plans and lists to their district's epidemic prevention command center for enterprise-specific review. Employers must rigorously enforce post-holiday return protocols, requiring employees to undergo 14 days of home quarantine and negative nucleic acid test results before resuming work.
Additionally, based on prevention policies across China, high- and medium-risk areas generally prohibit movement, while low-risk areas require residents to present a nucleic acid test certificate issued within the past 7 days for travel. However, the epidemic situation is highly volatile—an area classified as low-risk today may become high- or medium-risk tomorrow. Individuals planning travel must anticipate the unpredictability of Spring Festival travel in advance.
Tips
1. Employees should retain local government epidemic prevention announcements and proof of suspended transportation services (e.g., trains) for submission to employers when necessary.
2. Generally, when employees face difficulties returning to work due to the pandemic, employers should prioritize arranging paid annual leave after mutual agreement with employees.For employees unable to return to work for an extended period due to the pandemic, employers may arrange temporary layoffs after mutual agreement. During layoff periods, employers must provide living allowances. Thus, employees unable to return to work on time due to objective reasons like epidemic control measures should not be considered absent without leave.