UK 'has no plans' to require Chinese visitors to provide Covid tests as US, Italy clamp down

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UK 'has no plans' to require Chinese visitors to provide Covid tests as US, Italy clamp down
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Italy found that half of those arriving from China are testing positive for Covid - but the UK Government said there are 'no plans' for fresh curbs

Covid is now spreading largely unchecked in the countryUS officials say “the lack of transparent data” from China had made it difficult to assess the true scale of Covid’s spread – with the nation reporting no new Covid-19 deaths last weekThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted the risk of dangerous new Covid variants arising from China, citing the nation’s “reduced testing and case reporting” and “minimal sharing of viral genomic sequence data could delay the identification of...

At present, there are no Covid-19 related travel rules for anyone entering the UK, with all checks scrapped inItaly became the first nation in Europe to impose fresh restrictions on Wednesday, ordering Covid-19 antigen swabs and virus sequencing for all travellers coming from China. Milan’s main airport, Malpensa, started testing passengers arriving from Beijing and Shanghai on Monday.

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