The US, Italy, Japan and Malaysia have already started requiring negative tests for passengers coming from China. Thailand and Australia are also studying new restrictions.
Euskaraz irakurri: Zenbait herriadek test negatiboa eskatuko die Txinatik iritsitako bidaiariei
USA has been added this Wednesday to Italy and will ask passengers from China for a negative test of covid-19 or an antigen test in the two days before flying due to the relaxation of restrictions and the increase in cases positive in the Asian country.
The measure will apply from January 5 both to passengers who fly directly to the United States from China, Hong Kong or Macao and to passengers who fly through links with third countries, including Seoul, Toronto and Vancouver, as reported by CNN.
Faced with this situation, some countries, such as Italy and Japan or Malaysia, they have already begun to require covid-19 tests from Chinese citizens to enter their territories. In fact, the Italian Ministry of Health will test all passengers arriving from China.
For his part, the French president, Emmanuel Macronhas asked the Chinese government to take “appropriate measures to protect the French” both at the national and European levels in the face of the increase in positives in the country, as reported by France Info.
On the other hand, the government of thailand study offer vaccines against covid-19 free of charge to tourists arriving in the country, in a measure valued after the announcement of the opening of China, one of the key countries for Thai tourism.
The authorities australian They are also studying implementing restrictions on all passengers from China.
Source: Eitb
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