Dozens of countries are implementing tight controls at airports, partly to try and stop China’s massive surge in COVID\u002D19 infections from spreading globally,…
It’s not much to cheer about, but at least the newly dominant XBB.1.5 mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant doesn’t appear to be any deadlier than its predecessors. More importantly, while we’re not yet out of the woods, at least we’re allowing ourselves to admit that we can see the forest behind all those trees.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
That’s how Patty Hajdu, then the health minister, responded to a journalist’s question arising from U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings that the Beijing authorities were engaged in a massive cover-up of the COVID infection rate in China. The intelligence assessments were proved correct, and only days later Chinese authorities themselves admitted lowballing the COVID infection rate in Hubei province, where SARS-CoV-2 first emerged, by about 50 per cent.
Now that it has abandoned its failed “zero-COVID” policy after mass protests and civil disorder on a scale unseen since the countrywide democracy movement was crushed in the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square, the regime will be issuing tourist passports to all comers on Jan. 8.Article content Canada won’t be testing passengers on flights from China, opting instead to require travellers from China, Hong Kong and Macau to show that they tested negative for COVID-19 before their departure.Article content
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