US among several nations to defend requirement of virus tests for China passengers as Beijing threatens countermeasures
Health workers guide travellers arriving from China at a Covid-19 testing centre at Incheon international airport, near Seoul, South Korea.Health workers guide travellers arriving from China at a Covid-19 testing centre at Incheon international airport, near Seoul, South Korea.First published on Tue 3 Jan 2023 12.26 GMTand threatened countermeasures against countries involved.
“We believe that the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting China lack scientific basis, and some excessive practices are even more unacceptable,” foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a briefing. The measures have “very public health concerns that undergird them” due to “the surge of Covid-19 cases in the PRC and the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC,” Price said, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
“We are in our role, my government is in its role, protecting the French,” she told France-Info radio.
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