The United States joined nations imposing COVID tests on travellers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases, but the EU’s health agency said Thursday such measures weren’t warranted in the bloc. | AFP
In response, the United States and several other countries announced they would require negative Covid tests for all travellers from mainland China.
The US move came after Italy, Japan, India and Malaysia announced their own measures in a bid to avoid importing new variants from China.The European Union’s health agency said Thursday it believed the EU-wide introduction of mandatory Covid screenings for travellers from China was currently “unjustified”.
“In the absence of comprehensive information from China, it is understandable that countries around the world are acting in ways that they believe may protect their populations.” The lifting of mandatory quarantine sparked a surge in interest in overseas travel by Chinese citizens, who have been largely confined to their country since Beijing pulled up the drawbridge in March 2020.
But one 22-year-old man surnamed Hu denounced the introduced by some countries as unnecessary and “a bit discriminatory”.
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