BREAKING: US to impose mandatory COVID-19 tests for travellers from China aged two and over due to surge in infections. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
More than half of passengers on a flight from China to Italy have tested positive for COVID-19 - as China prepares to open up its borders despite a huge surge in infections.
On Wednesday evening the US became the fifth country to impose restrictions on Chinese travellers - as China prepares to issue ordinary passports and visas in a huge step away from COVID measures that have isolated the country for nearly three years. Travel services companies Trip.com and Qunar said international ticket bookings and searches for visa information on their websites rose five to eight times after the announcement. Top destinations included Japan, Thailand, South Korea, the United States, Britain and Australia.
Rules that confined millions of people to their homes kept China's infection rate low but fuelled public demonstrations and crushed economic growth. It also said it will resume issuing approval for tourists and businesspeople to visit Hong Kong, a Chinese territory with its own border controls.It said the government will"gradually resume" allowing in foreign visitors but gave no indication when full-scale tourist travel from abroad might be allowed.
The government has dropped or eased most quarantine, testing and other restrictions within China, joining authorities in other countries trying to live with the virus instead of stamping out transmission.
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