US to consider new measures for travelers from China amid mainland COVID-19 surge | Washington Examiner
By: Washington Examiner
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The Biden administration is considering imposing new COVID-19 restrictions for people traveling from China after the country's government announced it would reopen its borders to international travelers for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
U.S. officials are looking at implementing similar testing requirements to the ones Japan has placed on travelers from China, citing concerns over COVID-19 reporting data released by the Chinese government amid a surge in cases on the mainland.
"There are mounting concerns in the international community on the ongoing COVID-19 surges in China and the lack of transparent data, including viral genomic sequence data, being reported from the PRC," according to a statement by officials that was obtained by CNBC.
On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that the country would require a negative COVID-19 test for travelers arriving from China starting Dec. 30. Taiwan will also require COVID-19 tests for travelers coming on direct flights from China and some on boats, per a notice from the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control.
It comes on the heels of China announcing Monday it would lift all COVID-19 quarantine requirements for incoming arrivals, including visitors and Chinese nationals. China has been relaxing its "zero COVID" policies over the past few weeks that had instituted mass testing campaigns and forced millions into strict lockdowns since the onset of the pandemic.
COVID-19 cases have risen in China in recent weeks, coinciding with the country's sudden departure from the policies, although Chinese health officials have stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data.
The leader of the World Health Organization has expressed concerns about the uncertainty surrounding the Chinese government's COVID-19 data.
"WHO is very concerned over the evolving situation in China with increasing reports of severe disease. In order to make a comprehensive risk assessment of the situation on the ground, WHO needs more detailed information on disease severity, hospital admissions, and requirements for ICU support," said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a press conference last week.
The lack of transparency has amplified worries about how China's COVID-19 surge might affect other countries as its borders reopen.
COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have already increased in recent weeks in America, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Sounds like a valid reason to keep Title 42 in place.
They are beyond reason.
Karine Jean-Pierre keeps telling us that the border isn’t open when everyone in the world, especially the thousands crossing each day, know that it's wide open!
Maybe Gov Abbot should send buses to her house next.
It's the only way to get the biased media to cover the absolute crisis at the border.
I'll bet Karine hasn't been to the border either.
With that level of ignorance, I'm betting she (and Biden) thinks it the Canadian border people are talking about.
She was not chosen for her intellect.
As long as the block was checked. Seems to be a trend with this administration.
I think Biden unintentionally made the case for the merit based system that served America so well when it was "great!"
How so?
By letting the nation see the consequences of picking people strictly based on race and gender
He and his handlers like to call it Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, but fail to base any criteria upon merit.
Why bother? If they really want to get into the US they will just do what everyone else is doing and travel to South America or Central America and take the express route through Mexico to the US. With the BP overloaded with those turning themselves in; they can follow those that have something to hide and cross a few miles away from the other illegal immigrant masses. If they are seen they will just be added to list of got aways. If not- then they will join the numbers of those illegals that are never accounted for that enter our country.
Maybe Canada should close off their border with the US to be safe. Otherwise they will risk illegals passing through our country to get to them.
What a pleasant thought!
Then where are all the hypocrite liberals going say they are moving to when they have to have another temper tantrum
I think they changed their minds after they took a good look at canadas immigration requirements to chnge nationalities ...
i checked them out years ago for the hunting , but they just didnt sit right with me then , and im sure they have changed a little bit .
These hypocrites had no intention of carrying it out. Took advantage of a chance to whine and cry to get attention.
They're already building a wall.
Illegal aliens from China are already using that route. They constitute one of the 150+ nations of illegal aliens entering each week.
How pathetic that it's only now that the Biden Administration is considering testing ONE group who legally enter while they've allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter without being tested.
Wasn't Trump criticized for restricting travel from certain countries at the start of the pandemic?
You're not supposed to remember how the left and Democrats cried and cried that it was "racist" to restrict movement from a specific area. The left don't like it when you call out their hyporcisy.
Oh ya, they called it "racist."
Pelosi immediately ran to Chinatown to hug some Chinese Americans.
"Pictured: Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown in Feb. 2020 - demonstrating she isn’t the sharpest chopstick in the box by telling people to go to restaurants right as covid-19 was hitting its first massive domestic outbreak."
Intelligible noise ... a.k.a. monosyllabic conspiracy theories understandable to the muddle of morons.
Yup, and they bought it and voted for Biden.
Biden called him a xenophobe for doing it in 2020.
Tedros, the mental midget PhD politician with a sketchy past, has stated the obvious.