Beijing criticises ‘politically motivated’ testing rules for its tourists
A Chinese tourist checks her luggage as she waits for her Covid-19 test result in Incheon, South Korea, January 4 2023. Picture: KIM HONG-JI/REUTERS
China has rejected foreign scepticism of its statistics as politically motivated attempts to smear its achievements in fighting the virus. China, which has been largely shut off from the world since the pandemic began, will stop requiring inbound travellers to quarantine from January 8. But it will still demand that arriving passengers get tested before they begin their journeys.World Health Organization officials met Chinese scientists on Tuesday amid concern over the accuracy of China’s data on the spread and evolution of its outbreak.
There were chaotic scenes at Shanghai’s Zhongshan hospital where patients, many of them elderly, jostled for space on Tuesday in packed halls between makeshift beds where people used oxygen ventilators and got intravenous drips.
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