The Philippines is planning to impose strict travel requirements on Chinese nationals visiting the country as COVID-19 cases in China surge one week before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is scheduled to go there on a state visit. READ:
The Philippines is planning to impose strict travel requirements on Chinese nationals visiting the country as COVID-19 cases in China surge one week before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is scheduled to go there on a state visit.This picture shows COVID-19 patients on gurneys at Tianjin First Center Hospital in Tianjin on December 28, 2022.
“We need to understand that we are currently living with the virus, so going to a place where the virus detection is high should not hamper us from doing our work,” Vergeire said in Filipino at a press conference.The surge in COVID-19 cases in China has been attributed to the Omicron subvariant BF.7.
He said the President should secure the real status of COVID-19 cases in China, which has not been forthcoming with its pandemic data. Philippine Airlines earlier announced that it is resuming flights between Manila and Xiamen, China by Jan. 13, 2023, almost three years after the service was halted due to COVID-related border restrictions.
Health authorities in the southeastern Jiangxi province also said infections would hit an apex in early January, adding that there could be other peaks as people travel next month for Lunar New Year celebrations, state media reported. China late Monday scrapped quarantine for inbound travelers from Jan. 8 onward, dismantling the last remaining piece of its stringent zero-COVID policy and ending some of the world’s harshest border restrictions.
Medical staff are “pretty much all” expected to continue working despite testing positive for the virus, one doctor said. The United States is “considering taking similar steps” to countries such as Japan and Malaysia, they added. “Hyping, smearing and political manipulation with ulterior motives can’t stand the test of facts,” Wang added, calling Western media reporting on China’s COVID surge “completely biased.”
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