In response, the United States and a number of other countries announced they would require negative Covid tests for all travellers from mainland China. The US move came after Italy, Japan, India and Malaysia announced their own measures in a bid to protect against importing new Covid variants from China. The European Commission is set to meet Thursday to discuss "possible measures for a coordinated approach" by EU states to the explosion of Covid cases in China. On the frontlines of China's Covid wave, hospitals are battling surging cases that have hit the elderly and vulnerable hardest. China's National Health Commission (NHC) last week said that it would no longer release an official daily Covid death toll.

Source: The Star December 29, 2022 17:02 UTC