The health situation in China worries the whole world, which fears the resumption of the pandemic with new deadly variants.
Australian Health Minister Mark Butler justified his country’s decision: “This measure is a response to the significant wave of Covid-19 infections in China and the possibility of an appearance of variants of the virus in this country”.
The EU wants a common response
For their part, the Member States of the European Union wish to adopt a common response to the danger posed by a potential resurgence of Covid-19 infections.
EU countries will discuss on Wednesday 4 January a common response to travelers arriving from China, where the Covid-19 epidemic appears to be out of control, Sweden announced on Saturday 31 December 2022. – monthly presidency of the EU from 1 January.
“Sweden is seeking a common policy for the whole EU regarding the possible introduction of entry restrictions,” the Swedish government said in a statement.
Stockholm said it has decided to activate the IPCR, a tool that allows the EU Council to react quickly politically in crisis situations. “It is important to implement measures quickly,” the same source said.
WHO expresses concern
WHO announced on Friday that it has met with Chinese officials to worry about this Covid outbreak and has asked for reliable data on vaccination rates. Concern about the proliferation of strains of the virus. According to a recent study by Chinese researchers and published in the journal Frontiers of Medicine, 30 substrains of the Omicron variant have been circulating in Shanghai in recent months.
With the AFP
