As Covid overwhelms Chinese hospitals and crematoriums, officials have insisted that the wave is 'under control' despite acknowledging that the true scale of infections is 'impossible' to track.
BEIJING - Travellers from China now face restrictions when entering more than a dozen countries as concern grows over its surge in Covid-19 cases, with Australia the latest to demand a negative test before arrival.
In recent days, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have also imposed either a negative Covid-19 test requirement or testing upon arrival for travellers from China. The World Health Organization has called the precautionary measures "understandable" in light of the lack of outbreak information provided by Beijing.
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