BEIJING, Jan 11 ― Chinese state media defended today the retaliatory measures against South Korea and Japan over their Covid-19 travel curbs as “reasonable”, while...
BEIJING, Jan 11 ― Chinese state media defended today the retaliatory measures against South Korea and Japan over their Covid-19 travel curbs as “reasonable”, while Chinese tourists decried Seoul's “insulting” treatment on social media.
In a first, China's health authorities ― which have been reporting five or fewer deaths a day over the past month, numbers that are inconsistent with the long queues seen at funeral homes ― did not report Covid fatalities data yesterday. In response, the Chinese embassies in Seoul and Tokyo said yesterday they had suspended issuing short-term visas for travellers to China, with the foreign ministry slamming the testing requirements as “discriminatory.
Videos circulating online showed special lanes coordinated by soldiers in uniform for arrivals from China at the airport, with travellers given yellow lanyards with QR codes for processing test results. “Seoul should not be surprised by China's countermeasures,” it said in the article, which also criticised “very poor” quarantine conditions.
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