After Italy in Europe, the United States is in turn announcing that it will require a negative Covid test for travelers from China, due to the explosion in the number of cases in this country and the lack of information communicated by Beijing, a an American official announced on Wednesday.
According to information reported by CNN, affected travelers will be required to show a negative Covid-19 test result before boarding their flight.
From January 5, "all air travelers aged 2 and over coming from China will be required to take a test no more than two days before departure", regardless of their nationality or their vaccination status, this official said. sanitary.
The American media specifies that this test will apply to both passengers on direct flights and those traveling via stopovers including Seoul, Toronto and Vancouver.
The abrupt end this month of China's "zero Covid" policy has raised concern in several countries.
La Chaine is facing the largest wave of contamination in the world, amplified by the appearance of new variants.
France ensures that it is closely monitoring the situation, and could, in turn, react in the coming days.
At the end of the afternoon, the Élysée announced that Emmanuel Macron had "asked the government for appropriate measures to protect the French in this context, and to see both at national and European level".
The French government, ensures "to follow very carefully the evolution of the situation in China", and says it is "ready" Wednesday "to study all the useful measures".