for travellers arriving from China, joining a growing list of countries adopting border curbs amid concern over infections after China abruptly ended its stringent “zero-Covid” policy.
President Yoon Suk-yeol has said South Korea’s quarantine and border measures should focus strictly on the safety of its citizens without political considerations. “So any developed country in the world would do that. That’s science, and we should only care about the safety and health of the people.”A tour worker, who gave only her last name, Chen, for reasons of privacy, said her first overseas trip in three years foundered when she arrived in South Korea on Friday and tested positive, contradicting the result she got before departure.
Chen said she did not find the measures “convincing” as the other passengers on her airplane, mostly South Koreans had been allowed to go home.Arriving South Korean citizens and long-term visa holders must undergo a PCR test at a community clinic or hospital within 24 hours and submit the result online, with those testing positive required to quarantine.
Ban all international travel from China. They created the virus - now let them deal with the consequences.