China reported 644,671 cases to pathogen database GISAID, a tiny proportion of the 250 million infections estimated by Chinese officials to have occurred…
The U.S., Japan, Italy, India and Taiwan have also announced tests for travellers from China following claims that the country is suffering as many as one million new infections a day following the ending of its zero COVID policy.
Anyone who takes a PCR test – such as people in hospitals or care homes – will be asked if they have recently travelled to China. The U.S. issued similar warnings when it announced its plans to require all travellers from China to have a negative test before arrival from January 5, three days before China’s lifting of travel restrictions take effect.
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, a government adviser who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, said that “trying to ban a virus” through travel curbs had “‘already been shown not to work very well.” Professor Pollard said that any new variant which did appear in China was likely to be best-adapted to spreading in the Chinese population.
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