The lifting of “zero-Covid” restrictions has accelerated what appears to be China’s worst outbreak of the pandemic. This has prompted its neighbors to impose new travel restrictions, which China has threatened to take countermeasures against.
“We once again call on relevant countries to make sure that their Covid response measures are fact-based, science-based and proportionate,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing Tuesday. China itself still requires all arriving passengers to have tested negative for the virus within 48 hours of departure from their points of origin.
The government’s low official case numbers are also at odds with local reports. A spokesperson for the provincial government in Henan said Monday that as of Jan. 6, 89% of the province’s 99 million people had been infected. The number of patients visiting “fever clinics” for treatment has declined continuously since peaking Dec. 19, the spokesperson said.
Nonetheless, more countries have begun requiring negative Covid tests for travelers from China, and at least one country, Morocco, has banned arrivals entirely.Anthony Kwan / Getty Images Foreign governments’ actions may be driven in part by memories of China’s lack of transparency about the virus at the start of the pandemic, said Hung, who called pre-flight testing requirements “cautious and reasonable.”
“The mainland says that only a few thousand people are diagnosed a day, but this is not the case,” Eileen Cheung, 59, a retiree, said Tuesday while waiting in line to be inoculated., a public database based in Munich, said Tuesday that analysis of the latest genomic sequencing data from China showed that the variants in its outbreak “closely resemble” those already circulating around the world.
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