US Demands Covid Tests For Visitors From China
The US has become the latest country to impose Covid testing on visitors from China, after Beijing announced it would reopen borders next week.
Italy, Japan, Taiwan and India also announced mandatory tests, but Australia and UK said there were no new rules for travellers from China.
After three years of being closed to the world, China will let people travel more freely from 8 January.
But the country’s ongoing Covid surge has sparked wariness.
China has officially reported about 5,000 cases a day this week, but analysts say the numbers are vastly undercounted – and the daily case load is closer to a million. Hospitals in major cities are overwhelmed and residents are struggling to find basic medicines, according to reports.
“The infection surge in China is on expected lines,” Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, an Indian epidemiologist and health systems specialist told the BBC in a recent interview. “If you have a susceptible population that is not exposed to the virus, cases will rise. Nothing has changed for the rest of the world, including India.”
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