China will not require a quarantine period for people entering the country, although a negative test will be required. A wave of Chinese residents are expected to return to the country on their way home, which also coincides with the Lunar New Year.
Euskaraz irakurri: ‘Zero covid’ politika atzean utzi eta mugak irekiko ditu gaur Txinak
China has reopened to the rest of the world today after almost three years of border closures by officially lowering the category of covid from level A to B, effectively closing the end of the ‘zero covid’ policy.
This change, from the level of maximum danger and whose containment requires the strictest measures, to one contemplating more lax control, will allow travelers entering the country from this Sunday to do so without the mandatory quarantine that has been in place since March. 2020 has been imposed.
This new situation comes just one day after the start of the 40-day period known as “chunyun” in Chinese, the world’s largest annual migration, which takes place each year during the Lunar New Yearwhich falls between January 21 and 27 in 2023 and is expected to return tens of thousands of overseas Chinese citizens to the country.
Not only those arriving in the country by air are benefiting from the paradigm shift in China’s anti-pandemic policies. The land border posts have also today witnessed the flow of people who have taken advantage of the end of quarantines to enter the Asian giant.
Concerns outside China
On the other hand, the explosion of Covid-19 cases in China, following the repeal of most of the restrictions imposed during the pandemic, has sparked global concern, prompting countries around the world to impose new controls. .
So, as China begins to ease its restrictions, a greater number of countries have joined in requesting negative tests for travelers from China in recent weeks.
In this sense, for example, from this week until February 15, Spain can refuse entry to third-country nationals arriving on direct flights from an airport in China if they do not present a digital EU COVID certificate or equivalent or negative diagnostic tests, based on public health reasons, according to a resolution on foreign air border restrictions from the Ministry of the Interior published this Wednesday in the Government Gazette (BOE).
Similarly, at an urgently convened meeting of the European Union’s Health Security Committee (HSC) in late December, EU member states agreed to maintain “active surveillance” in the face of the apparent explosion of coronavirus infections in China, demonstrating the commitment to contact to explore possible joint initiatives.
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Source: EITB
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