European Union member states set the stage for coordinated controls on passengers arriving from China, including possible mandatory pre-travel testing, as the bloc works to ensure China’s sudden reversal of itsThe EU decision, which looks likely to be agreed on Wednesday, would see member states followin tightening controls on arrivals from China ahead of the lifting of travel controls by Beijing in the coming days.
The health spokesman for the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said Tuesday evening after the meeting that Brussels would recommend on Wednesday approving measures including mask wearing on flights from China, increased monitoring of wastewater for Covid on incoming flights, genomic surveillance at airports to check for new Covid variants and increased follow-up with travelers.
China has criticized what it called unacceptable and politically motivated Covid-related travel restrictions on its citizens andFor much of the past three years, China has imposed stringent Covid testing and quarantine requirements on foreign nationals traveling to the country, part of a larger bundle of measures to prevent Covid infections from being imported from abroad.
EU is contradicting itself