People outside a shopping centre in Beijing, China. Picture: BLOOMBERG
The change, which still leaves China an outlier in a world that is rapidly learning to live with the virus, comes after Beijing and Shanghai said they had no new locally transmitted Covid-19 infections on Monday, for the first time since February.
“China is still way far from opening up,” he said, adding that the country still requires negative Covid-19 tests to enter — a measure many other countries dispensed with months ago. Testing requirements during the mandatory quarantine period were changed in the protocol. Travellers are now required only to give throat swabs, rather than nasal ones. The new guidelines, updated for the first time since May 2021, make no mention of any vaccination requirements for travellers.
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