Chief medical officer does not rule out future border restrictions but says community has high immunity to current variants
that from 5 January it will also require all travellers from China to provide a negative Covid test to before boarding a flight. Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan have also announced test requirements for entry.On Thursday the chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, said for now he was comfortable not introducing negative test requirements for arrivals from China because the main variant authorities believed was circulating in that country had already spread throughout Australia in July.
“The information we have out of China, at least at the moment, is the variant that’s circulating mostly and driving the rising cases in China is a variant that we’ve already seen in Australia… and it’s mostly started to become less of a problem here. He said China has a “very under-immune” population because of the zero-case policy pursued since the beginning of the pandemic. “This was always eventually going to happen that when they did move to a similar response to the rest of the world that they would be faced with a very largely non-immune population.”
Albanese later told ABC TV: “What we will do is take health advice, not just when it comes to China, when it comes to every country.
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