From midnight, Australia joins a growing number of countries imposing new COVID-19 travel restrictions on people arriving from China, but experts say it is neither fair nor necessary.
abc.net.au/news/expert-warn-covid-19-testing-policy-discriminatory-to-china/101824884Families have been separated for almost three years due to COVID-19 restrictions in both China and Australia.Travellers from China to Australia will need to show evidence of a negative COVID-19 test prior to departureChina has provided little information and genomic sequencing data, Australian authorities say
There will be exemptions for children under 12 years old, airline crew and people with evidence of a COVID-19 infection in the past 30 days. "Targeting just one country doesn't really achieve anything because, as we know with Omicron, it just shoots all over the world because everybody travelled everywhere, and it'll just come in through a different entry point anyway."
"[China] have had a couple of data uploads from a variety of testing sites … which is really fantastic to see and really encouraging but obviously more needs to come on a regular basis," she said. Professor Russell said people in China could be deterred from taking a supervised test to travel overseas over fear of "discriminatory policies and trust"."I think that is certainly a possibility that there will be fear of punishment or being stuck in quarantine or not, well, obviously, not being able to travel," she said.
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