China is facing a COVID-19 surge—and that could mean complications for travel

“For the most part, we really don’t know what variants are circulating in China.”

concerns about a surge of COVID-19 infections in China, the potential risk of new variants emerging from its outbreak, in addition to a perceived reluctance by the Chinese government to share data with other countries among their reasons for implementing the testing policy.Chinese government officials are pushing back against these restrictions.

“Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge in countries around the world. However, reduced testing and case reporting in the PRC and minimal sharing of viral genomic sequence data could delay the identification of new variants of concern if they arise,”.

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