China slashes COVID quarantine time for international travellers

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·BEIJING/SHANGHAI - China slashed the quarantine time for inbound travellers by half on Tuesday, in a major easing of COVID-19 curbs that have deterred cross-border travel and resulted in international flights running at just 2% of pre-pandemic levels.

In recent months, China has cautiously eased curbs on cross-border travellers, with health officials saying the shorter incubation period of the Omicron variant allows for an adjustment of quarantine time. "It will hopefully work towards increasing business exchanges and stemming the outflow of international talent, some of whom are coming up to having had three years of separation from family and friends overseas," the British Chamber of Commerce in China told Reuters.

The Walt Disney Co's Shanghai Disney Resort said on Tuesday that it would reopen the Disneyland theme park on June 30; it had been shut for more than three months. Earlier on Monday, the Beijing Daily apparently misquoted Cai as saying the city would maintain its COVID control effort for "the next five years".

 

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