More Countries Impose Travel Restrictions On China Over Covid-19 Cases
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Additional countries have placed travel restrictions on Chinese travelers over increased wave of coronavirus in the country. China originated the Covid-19 pandemic that had brought the world to a standstill, leading to the death of millions of people and ravaging the global economy.
The United Kingdom, Spain, France, and Italy have announced that travellers entering the country from China would provide a negative COVID-19 test result before boarding her flights.
The ranking of the eruption of the pandemic in China and the disbelieves on official information about its surge made some countries like the United States, India, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to place their own new travel ordinances on Chinese travelers.
Other countries that have followed the same path were Malaysia, Australia, and the Philippines. It was verified that France has recently announced that Covid-19 tests have to be done less than two day before leaving for the country.
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Also, visitors shall be on direct flights from China and flights with stopovers, with random tests carried out on passengers on arrival. French leaders added that positive tests will be subject to review for new variants.
In the same measure, the United Kingdom admitted that travellers leaving China for Britain shall provide a prove of a negative COVID-19 test before boarding.
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Similarly, Spanish governments have on December 30, 2022, declared a new COVID-19 regulations for passengers coming to the country’s airports from China, saying that such travellers shall test negative for COVID-19 or provide a prove they were fully vaccinated against the disease.
Further, Spanish health minister Carolina Darias, in a news conference said “Spain would coordinate at a high level with other EU member states to adopt a common policy while pushing for a revision of the current conditions that need to be met by travellers seeking to obtain the EU’s so-called Digital COVID Certificate.”
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It was learned that the new measure came after the European Union’s Health Security Committee met recently to examine the bloc’s technique to contain the spread of the pandemic in the face of inflow of visitors from China after Beijing gave its travelers soft landing.
Italy had already ordered for tests on arrival for all travellers by air from China. It directed that such steps would be extended to EU, adding that they risked ineffectiveness if applied in a piecemeal fashion by only some countries within the bloc.
In a different development, EU health commission has organized officials from health ministries across the bloc which was headed by European Commission.
The EU said it is wrong to believe that an EU-wide introduction of mandatory COVID-19 screenings for travellers from China was currently “unjustified”.
Germany, in her reaction, noted that it was pursuing a cooperative system to scrutinize variants across her airports.