China Covid Outbreak

• Canada is lifting COVID-19 testing rules for travellers from China

  The move comes nearly three weeks before the measures were set to expire and quickly follows the lifting of similar requirements by the United States.

  Health

  Mar 16, 2023
  
• U.S. to relax COVID-19 testing rules on travelers from China this week: sources

  Officials said the Biden administration made the decision as cases, hospitalizations and deaths are declining in China and the U.S. has gathered better information about the surge.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2023
  
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• Canada extends COVID-19 measures for travellers from China to early April

  Since Jan. 5, air travellers from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macau have been required to present a negative COVID-19 test before entering Canada.

  Health

  Feb 2, 2023
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• China slams ‘excessive’ COVID-19 curbs on travellers, threatens to respond

  A growing list of countries are requiring travellers from China to take a COVID-19 test prior to boarding their flight, as China battles a nationwide outbreak of the coronavirus.

  Health

  Jan 3, 2023
• Canada will require COVID-19 testing for flights from China as virus surges

  The measures follow similar implemented rules from other countries across the world, including the U.S. and Japan, as China grapples with a surge of the virus.

  Canada

  Dec 31, 2022
• U.S. to require COVID-19 tests for travelers from China as variant fears grow

  Beginning Jan. 5, all travelers to the U.S. from China will be required to get tested no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight.

  Health

  Dec 28, 2022
• China to resume issuing passports, visas for travel abroad despite COVID-19 surge

  Also Monday, the government downgraded the official seriousness of COVID-19 and removed it from a list of illnesses that require quarantine.

  Health

  Dec 28, 2022
• Beijing, Shanghai residents back to work as COVID outbreak continues in China

  Cities across China have been racing to add intensive-care units and fever clinics, facilities designed to prevent the wider spread of contagious disease in hospitals.

  Health

  Dec 26, 2022
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• COVID leaves China’s ICUs packed, crematoriums crowded: ‘There’s no beds here’

  As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed.

  World

  Dec 24, 2022
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• Beijing faces ‘explosive’ COVID outbreak as Shanghai begins mass testing

  While Shanghai has lifted its lockdown and begin mass testing, Chinese authorities say the country's capital Beijing is facing a COVID-19 outbreak related to a bar.

  World

  Jun 11, 2022