China Covid: EU 'strongly' urges testing for travel
Despite the recommendation, it's not known if an EU-wide policy will be introduced - but individual states can set their own policy.
The advice from the IPCR is a change in tack from the body's disease prevention agency, which last week advised against the introduction of mandatory Covid tests.given the high rates of vaccination in Europe, and that variants circulating in China were already in the European Union. The World Health Organization on Wednesday said there was no evidence of new variants in China, despite the surge in cases. However, experts warned this could be due to a lack of testing and data.- in part due to what they said was a "too narrow" definition of a Covid death.The UK science data company Airfinity estimates there are more than two million Covid cases a day in China, and 14,700 deaths.
that travel restrictions on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate.
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