With the big Lunar New Year holidays late this month, the mainland is also set to open the border with Hong Kong on January 8, for the first time in three years.
tests from Chinese travelers, as the World Health Organization said China’s official virus data was under-reporting the true extent of its outbreak.defending the handling of the outbreak
The global aviation industry, battered by years of pandemic curbs, has also been critical of the decisions to impose testing on travelers from China. China will still require pre-departure testing for inbound travelers after January 8.“They should have taken a series of actions before opening up…and at the very least ensure that the pharmacies were well stocked,” a 70-year-old man who gave his surname as Zhao told Reuters in Shanghai.
International health experts believe Beijing’s narrow definition of COVID deaths does not reflect a true toll that could rise to more than a million fatalities this year. Meanwhile, both China’s blue-chip CSI300 Index .CSI300 and the Shanghai Composite Index .SSEC have gained more than 2% in the first trading week of the year.
Authorities expect 2.1 billion passenger trips, by road, rail, water and air, over the holiday, double last year’s 1.05 billion journeys during the same period.
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