Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, China has loosened restrictions recently to further optimize its response, with its policies on testing, quarantine and travel adjusted. For example, PCR tests are no longer required when entering most public venues, patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms ca...
China has imposed few restrictions on mobility and international arrivals since January 8 – the country downgraded COVID-19 management from Class A to Class B, which lifted quarantines and entry restrictions. How has China's COVID-19 policy optimization panned out so far? A...
China has resumed the 144-hour visa-free transit policy, which allows people from certain countries to enjoy six days of travel to select areas of the country without applying for a visa beforehand. With the policy finally reinstated after three years of COVID-19 restrictions, we explain who ...
and vaccination capacity steadily increasing, China in December last year announced 10 new measures to lift numerous COVID-19 restrictions. On Jan. 8, its management of COVID-19 was officially downgraded from Class A to Class B.
BEIJING--China’s prospects for 2024 look uncertain, as a year that opened free of COVID-19 lockdowns winds down without the dreamed of robust recovery for the world’s No. 2 economy. The wars in Gaza and Ukraine are straining China’s ties with the West. A U.S.-China leaders’ ...
GLOBALink | Special COVID restrictions for travelers from China unjustified: Polish minister Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-01-06 11:02:310:00 /0:00 Poland will not impose special COVID-19 restrictions on people coming from China, Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on ...
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson says some countries' COVID entry restrictions targeting China lack scientific basis and are unreasonable.
His comment came as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said on Monday that he certainly very much welcomes the easing of COVID-related restrictions in China, which is very much positive in terms of making sure that the supply chains...
China eases its COVID restrictions after nearly three years. Why now? Travelers arrive at Haikou Meilan International Airport, south China's Hainan Province, December 9, 2022. Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, China haslo...
In December 2022, China announced 10 new measures to lift numerous COVID-19 restrictions. On Jan. 8, 2023, it shifted the management of COVID-19 by adopting measures designed for combating Class B infectious diseases instead of Class A. China has shifted the focus of its COVID-19 response...