People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday. theSun theSundaily travel health Covid19 China
People line up at a government office for entry and exit matters which provides services including making or renewing passports or permits to go to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, after China reopened borders, in Beijing, China January 9, 2023. REUTERSPIX: People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China dropped Covid border controls that had largely prevented its 1.4 billion residents from travelling for three years.
“She got married last year but had to postpone the wedding ceremony because we couldn’t go over to attend it. We’re very glad we can now go,“ Yang said, standing alongside his wife. But flights are scarce and several nations are demanding negative tests from visitors from China, seeking to contain an outbreak that is overwhelming many of China's hospitals and crematoriums. China, too, requires pre-departure negative Covid tests from travellers.
But the World Health Organization has said China is under-reporting the scale of the outbreak and international virus experts estimate more than one million people in the country could die from the disease this year. “The ending of the zero-Covid policy is ... going to have a major positive impact on domestic spending,“ Ralph Hamers, group chief executive officer at UBS, told the Swiss bank’s annual Greater China conference on Monday.“It’s a huge relief just to be able to go back to normal ...
In the near term, a spike in demand from travellers will be hampered by the limited number of flights to and from China, which are currently at a small fraction of pre-Covid levels.
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