As China relaxes its requirements for quarantine for incoming travelers, several countries are likely to experience a surge in the number of Chinese tourists. The most populous nation in the world, which is still feeling the effects of the Covid rise, will celebrate the Lunar New Year this month, which will cause millions of people to travel around the nation, from megacities to the countryside.
In addition, many countries are extending their Covid limitations for Chinese travelers, and airlines have resisted supporting China’s goal of ending Covid Zero, a campaign to cut off its citizens from the rest of the world in the wake of Covid-19, starting in 2020.
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Under the guise of low Covid-death rates, China ended its Zero Covid programme. A different view is presented by satellite photographs that have been posted online.
Following China’s opening of its borders, a number of countries including the UN imposed stricter travel restrictions on Chinese citizens. The governments of the Netherlands and Portugal are among the most recent nations to demand Covid-negative for Chinese travelers upon arrival.
Even though there have been tales of packed funeral homes all across the country, the official data on Covid deaths in China has been kept at just over 5,000. Chinese network NTD claims that medical professionals have been instructed to refrain from citing Covid-19 as the primary cause of any deaths in the nation. According to the research, deaths brought on by diseases that were not medically treatable are not included in Covid.
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Prior to reopening its borders, China deleted the social media profiles of nearly 1,000 people who had criticized the Covid practices of the government. According to sources, China’s well-known Sina Weibo social media network announced that it had resolved 12,854 infractions and barred 1,120 accounts either temporarily or permanently.
In response to news of an increase in Covid cases in China, Germany has discouraged non-essential travel there. On Twitter, the nation’s foreign ministry stated: “We now advise against making unneeded travels to China. An overburdened healthcare system and a rise in Covid infections are to blame.”
This is despite the fact that the nation is trailing other members of the European Union in the post-pandemic revival of the airline industry. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that the data and information gathered up until December 2022 is “extremely accurate,” in response to what is perceived as broad criticism regarding statistics on Covid-19.
According to a remark from him in the official Global Times, the nation “has always endeavored to gather, analyze, and assess statistics.”
