President Xi Jinping said Saturday the “light of hope is right in front of us” as China faces an explosion of Covid-19 cases after an abrupt lifting of restrictions.
BEIJING, China —
“Epidemic prevention and control is entering a new phase… Everyone is working resolutely, and the light of hope is right in front of us,” Xi said in a televised address for the New Year. Authorities have announced they will end mandatory quarantine on arrival for travellers entering China from January 8 and allow Chinese people to travel abroad, after three years of frustration.
Morocco, meanwhile, went a step further, announcing it was banning all incoming travellers from China, regardless of nationality, “in order to avoid a new wave of contaminations in Morocco and all its consequences”.The precautionary measures taken by several states are “understandable” in view of a lack of information provided on the outbreak by Beijing, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.
“These unilateral actions are at odds with all the experience and evidence gained over the past three years,” it said in a statement.
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