The U. S. government The U. S. Air Force will require all air travelers from China to present a negative Covid-19 check before being admitted to the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, bringing up instances in China as the country lifts its strict pandemic. Mitigation regulations and China’s lack of transparency in reporting new infections.
Starting Jan. 5, travelers traveling from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau will have to present a negative PCR or antigen test to airline officials no more than two days before boarding a U. S. -bound plane, the CDC said.
Travelers to the U. S. U. S. travelers from Seoul, Toronto and Vancouver, hubs that cater to a large number of connecting flights from China, will also need to provide negative tests if they have been in China in the past 10 days.
The CDC said that “relief and case reports in [the People’s Republic of China],” as well as the “minimal sharing of viral genome series data,” threaten the ability of the U. S. to do so. The U. S. Department of Health and Prevention is required to track new coronavirus variants.
The new requirement comes amid a wave of covid-19 cases in China, which abandoned its strict lockdown policies in recent months and will lift its quarantine policy for incoming travelers on Jan. 8.
1 million. That’s the number of new covid-19 cases in China, according to an estimate by British fitness testing company Airfinity. While China reported only 3 new covid-19 deaths on Tuesday and one on Monday, Airfinity estimates the country faces more than 5000 deaths. depending on the day. Privately, Chinese health officials estimated that 37 million more people would have become inflamed on a single day last week, Bloomberg reported Friday, bringing up minutes from an internal meeting of China’s National Health Commission held last Wednesday, a figure that breaks the previous record of four million new instances consistent with the day set in January 2022.
The CDC’s announcement comes as other countries have also taken new precautions to prevent the spread of Covid-19 from China. Japan announced on Monday that it would also require negative tests for travelers from China, raising “large discrepancies” in reports of Covid-19 cases. Italy also requires testing for all travelers entering from China after locating that some of all travelers arriving in Milan from China on two recent flights tested positive for Covid-19, Italian fitness officials said Wednesday.
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