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The world multiplies the controls of travelers from China before the fear of a new wave of contagions from COVID-19

Various European countries like France, Italy and Spain have restricted the arrival of travelers from China.  REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Various European countries like France, Italy and Spain have restricted the arrival of travelers from China. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

After United States, Japan, Canada and other European countries, Australia announced on Sunday that it will demand negative tests of COVID-19 for passengers from China for the repunte of infections in the Asian giant.

“Esta medida es una response a la ola significant de infección de covid-19 en China ya la possibility de apparition de variants de virus en este país”, he explained Australian Minister of Health, Mark Butler.

La demand de una prueba PCR negativa empezará a applicarse a partir del 5 de enero a cualquier pasajero llegado de China.

The government of Canada had announced an identical measure in response to the increase in COVID-19 in the People’s Republic of China and due to the few epidemiological data and genomic sequencing available on these cases.

Morocco fue más lejos y directamente prohibió la entrada en su territorio a todos los pasajeros procedencias de China a partir del 3 de enero.

People wait with passengers at a train station, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 1, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
People wait with passengers at a train station, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 1, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

Aunque varios países europeos como France, Italy and Spain have restricted the arrival of travelers from Chinatodos los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea deben reunirse el miercoles para discutrid una respuesta común, announced Suecia, que asume a partir de este domingo la presidency semestral del bloque.

“A falta de information completa de China, es comprehensibly que los paísos tomen las medidas que creen que protegarán a sus populations”, said the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Almost three years after the detection of the first cases of coronavirus in Wuhan (center), China dismantled its draconian “covid zero” health policy at the beginning of December.

Desde entonces, los hospitals se llenaron de pacientes, en su majojos ancianos, los crematorios se encuentra saturados y numerousa farmacias needen de medicamentos contra la fiebre.

El país informó el domingo de 5,100 nuevos contagios y un muerto por la enfermedad. However, los expertos consider que estas cifras no encajan con la realidad ante el fin de las pruebas para la detección de virus systémicas y la redefinición de las muertes por COVID.

A medical worker with a protective suit registers information for a patient at the entrance of the fever clinic of the Wuhan Central Hospital, in the middle of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, province of Hubei, China, el December 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
A medical worker with a protective suit registers information for a patient at the entrance of the fever clinic of the Wuhan Central Hospital, in the middle of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, province of Hubei, China, el December 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

“La prevention y el control de la epidemia han entrado en una nueva fase. Todavía estamos en un momento difícil”, but “the light of hope is before us”, said President Xi Jinping in a New Year’s televised speech.

Important crowds gathered to celebrate the end of the year in Shanghai and Wuhan, even though the internet was talking about quieter celebrations than the previous years.

The WHO announced on Friday that it had reunited with Chinese officials to tackle the outbreak of the epidemic and that they had asked to share “regular and real-time specific data on the epidemiological situation”.

A recent study of Chinese researchers publicado en la revista “Frontiers of Medicine” reveló que existía unas 30 subvariantes de Ómicron circulando en Shanghái desde hace meses.

In his New Year’s speech, the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, set aside tensions with Beijing and said that they were “dispuestos to provide the necessary assistance based on humanitarian concerns”.

A recent study of Chinese researchers published in the magazine
A recent study of Chinese researchers published in the magazine “Frontiers of Medicine” revealed that there were 30 micron subvariants circulating in Shanghai from the past month. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo

China, which during the major part of the pandemic adopted a strategy of “Covid zero” that imposed tough restrictions destined to eradicate the virus, alivió abruptamente esas medidas en diciembre. Las autoridades chinas dijeron anteriore que a partir del 8 de enero, los viajeros extranjeros ya no nejajaran ponerse en cuarentena al llegar a China, allanando el camino para que los residentes chinos viajen.

Hong Kong is also preparing to travel without quarantine to China, with plans to resume the operations of more border control points as of January 8, according to a publication on Facebook of Hong Kong’s chief secretary, Eric Chan.

Sin embargo, se mantendrá una cuota que limita el número de viajeros entre los dos lugares.

“Depending on the first phase of the situation, we will expand gradually the scale for a full reopening of the front“, said Chan.

(With information from AP and AFP)

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