Originally Posted by
plunet
Fortunately they landed today, surprisingly efficient process from landing to quarantine hotel room was 3hrs, but the swab they took at the airport was very painful, and done with the underlying message that you are an inconvenience coming back to the motherland.
I've done the nostril test in the States. The nurse simply swab around the frontal part of the nose, and I thought oh it was nothing. Then I did it in Taiwan. The doctor pushed it up, and I can definitely feel it deep inside my nostril, but again, not too bad. Then it's China. They pushed it up so far up my nostril I though they're going for my brain. And in the US and Taiwan it's both only one swab, but in China they did it twice (one up each nostril). Definitely not a very pleasant experience.
But I've seem they would switch to mouth for younger children. Make sure to ask for that if you are coming in with children.