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By Chris Cameron and Sharon LaFraniere
WASHINGTON — Biden’s management plans to end Friday the requirement that travelers from China provide negative covid-19 before entering the United States, according to a user familiar with the plan.
The plan to lift the restriction comes as a once-huge viral wave is fading in China, and after other countries announced their own easing of restrictions for other people traveling from China. Management aims to make its decision, the user said, and will continue to monitor flights from China and other countries to help detect new variants of the virus.
The restriction implemented two months ago, when the end of China’s “zero covid” policy led to a surge in covid cases in the country, destroying hospitals, morgues and crematoria.
U. S. officials are not allowed to do so. U. S. officials said at the time that the testing requirement was mandatory due to China’s lack of transparency regarding the outbreak. In the absence of credible data from Beijing, scientists necessarily had to guess the duration and severity of the outbreak that began in December. Social media reports and other unreliable data resources.
Public health officials were also concerned that the immediate emergence of the virus in China would create opportunities for it to evolve, creating new variants that would then reach other parts of the world. USA. U. S. Since then, officials have accumulated more data on the outbreak and variants circulating in China, the user said.
Some experts had questioned the effectiveness of the testing requirement, as the virus was already spreading in parts of the United States at the time, fed through an Omicron subvariant that spread faster than variants of the virus from China. winter for Covid cases.
China had denounced the United States and other countries for enforcing the restrictions, accusing them of politicizing the coronavirus pandemic. The cancellation of the testing requirement comes at a time of heightened tension between the United States and China after the Energy Department concluded, albeit with low trust and war of words with some other federal agencies, that an accidental lab leak likely caused the coronavirus pandemic.
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