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France urges EU peers to test Chinese travellers for COVID

France urges EU peers to test Chinese travellers for COVID

Published January 01,2023


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France on Sunday urged European Union friends to check Chinese travellers for COVID after Paris determined to take action amid an outbreak sweeping the nation.

Only Italy and Spain additionally require checks within the 27-nation, largely border-free EU and well being officers from throughout the bloc failed final week to agree on a joint course.

More talks will comply with this week.

From Sunday, France is requiring that travellers from China present a adverse COVID-19 check end result lower than 48 hours earlier than departure and can randomly check these arriving.

“France will push for this methodology to be applied across the EU,” Health Minister François Braun mentioned as he and Transport Minister Clement Beaune checked on the brand new procedures at Paris’ Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport.

Asked about the truth that a Chinese traveller with COVID might in the intervening time land in one other EU nation after which journey unchecked to France, Beaune mentioned: “This is why we must coordinate (across the EU), to be more efficient.”

Having saved its borders all however shut for 3 years, imposing a strict regime of lockdowns and relentless testing, Beijing abruptly reversed course towards dwelling with the virus on Dec. 7, and infections have unfold quickly in latest weeks.

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