Italy has decided to introduce mandatory testing of all travelers from China, which is registering an “explosion” of COVID-19 cases, Italy’s health minister announced, AFP reports, News.ro reports.
“This measure is indispensable to guarantee the surveillance and individualization of possible variants of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) in order to protect the Italian population,” Italian Health Minister Orazio Scillacci said in a statement on Wednesday. .
The sudden end to China’s zero-covid policy this month has raised concerns in several countries, including the United States, which are considering imposing restrictions on Chinese travelers as China faces the world’s worst wave of infections, exacerbated by the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 .
Japan intends to resume mandatory PCR testing of travelers from mainland China from Friday.
Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory, has announced that it will conduct COVID-19 tests on travelers arriving from the mainland.
Source: Hot News
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