The global airline association criticized on Wednesday decisions by governments to impose COVID-19 tests and other measures on travelers from China as ineffective 'knee-jerk' reactions.
Global passenger traffic, which was decimated by the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, is expected to have reached 70.6 percent of its pre-crisis level in 2022 -- less than previously forecast as China had maintained strict travel restrictions. FILE PHOTO
The measures have been imposed as China has been hit by a surge in infections after Beijing abandoned its strict containment measures last month. "Research undertaken around the arrival of the Omicron variant concluded that putting barriers in the way of travel made no difference to the peak spread of infections," Walsh said.
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