The country last month announced it would reopen its borders for the first time since the onset of Covid-19 on 8 January, which will see the country end its mandatory quarantine policy.
However, many countries – including the UK, US, India, Japan and several EU nations – have announced plans to introduce testing requirements for arrivals from China owing to the country’s high rates of Covid-19 infection, and to guard against the import of new variants of the infection.
The European Commission is on Wednesday (4 January) expected to decide whether to introduce blanket measures for Chinese arrivals throughout the bloc.
