South Korea shares eye-opening Covid statistics to defend new rules for travelers from China
"China's COVID-19 situation is still worsening …which has created the possibility of new variants to be detected," he said.
But South Korea and Japan — two top destinations for Chinese travelers — said they are not increasing flights in response to China's border reopening. South Korea also announced plans to limit short-term visas to travelers from China.that they would stop issuing visas to "Korean nationals" and "Japanese citizens.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a press briefing Wednesday that the United States is requiring that travelers from China take pre-departure tests because of the "spread" and "prevalence" of infections in China, "but also because of the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC."
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