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Israel is also on the list: China threatens countermeasures following the Corona restrictions on its citizens Israel today

2023-01-03T14:04:45.185Z


The regime in Beijing is angry about the obligation to carry out tests for its citizens in several countries, including the USA • "Strongly opposes attempts to manipulate the Corona measures for political purposes" • Due to the state of morbidity, in China they stopped publishing the


The message is also addressed to Jerusalem:

China today (Tuesday) strongly attacked the obligation to carry out corona tests for its citizens from abroad. Except for the incoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu, similar measures were announced by the USA and other countries in Europe.

The regime in Beijing threatened countermeasures.

Israel announced last Friday that foreigners arriving from China will have to present a negative result for a corona test before entering Israel.

"We believe that the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting China have no scientific basis," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a daily briefing while calling the measures "excessive and unacceptable."

Also, the spokeswoman stated that "we strongly oppose attempts to manipulate the corona measures for political purposes".

The spokeswoman warned: "We will take countermeasures based on the principle of reciprocity."

The world does not ignore the crisis in the country.

Corona tests in China (archive), photo: GettyImages

In recent days, Canada, Australia, France and the USA have imposed restrictions on flights from China in the form of a PCR test requirement up to 48 days before departure to the destination country. On the other hand, in China they announced that as of January 8 those arriving from abroad will not be required to stay in isolation.

As you may recall, last month the Chinese authorities canceled the "zero tolerance" policy that characterized the conduct of the government led by President Xi Jinping since the outbreak of the epidemic about three years ago.

Despite the fear in light of the sharp increase in the number of infected during the last month and the fear of the collapse of the country's hospitals, in Beijing they had to order the easing of the policy.

Morbidity in China has increased significantly in recent weeks, when before it decided to take an unusual step to stop publishing the data, there was talk of tens of millions of infections per day.

Will China also respond to Israel?

Health Minister Deri and Prime Minister Netanyahu, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The easing of the policy came in response to protests in the Asian giant that began when a fire killed 10 people in a residential building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, in late November.

Local residents claim that the lockdown that the area was under at the time of the accident prevented people from leaving the burning building, something that the local authorities strongly denied.

The protests became a challenge to the regime that has not been seen in decades, which quickly became a political test for President Xi Jinping, who was recently elected to another term as leader of the People's Republic.

As mentioned, in addition to Israel, France, Italy, Canada, the USA, India, Japan and Malaysia have also announced that those arriving from China will have to present a negative result for corona tests and thus, in fact, those arriving from China will have to go through an additional process before entering those countries.

Morocco has announced that it is even stricter and prohibits the entry of passengers from China into its country.

It is now unclear whether other countries intend to join the restrictions on arrivals from China.

It is important to note that in some countries such as India for example, those coming from Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea are also restricted due to the high morbidity there as well.

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Source: israelhayom

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