US Says Covid-19 Tests For China Travellers Scientific
The United States on Tuesday said that the requirement of COVID-19 tests for travellers from China was based on science and as a result of Beijing’s lack of transparency on increasing cases.
China earlier Tuesday denounced measures taken by a number of countries on its travellers as “unacceptable,” two days before air passengers, two years and older, would be needed to show a negative COVID test to enter the US.
“This is an approach that is based solely and exclusively on science,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
The measures have “very public health concerns that undergird them” due to “the surge of COVID-19 cases in the PRC and the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC,” Price added, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
Price further said that the US was set to share its COVID-19 vaccines with China, which had heavily promoted overseas its own jabs that international health experts said were less effective.
China has seen an increasing number of COVID illnesses since it suddenly ended a policy of zero cases following rare public protests over sweeping lockdowns.
