A government spokesperson confirmed this to journalists in London on Tuesday.
Hong Kong will also be affected by the new regulations, details of which will be announced shortly.
“We have seen an increase in cases there and this decision was also made because there is a lack of comprehensive health data from China,” the spokesperson said.
He stressed that spot checks should also be carried out on inbound travelers from China. The main purpose of this is to detect new corona variants. However, according to current knowledge, the same variants circulated in China as in Great Britain. “So far there is no evidence of other variants in China (…)”, the spokesman continued.
Beijing had criticized the introduction of new testing rules as “discriminatory” after the first countries tightened their rules for travelers from China over fears of possible new virus variants.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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