Beginning on January 5th, all air passengers two years old and older will require negative result from test no more than two days before departure
The United States also is expanding its voluntary genomic sequencing program at airports, adding Seattle and Los Angeles to the program. That brings the total number of airports gathering information from positive tests to seven.
Beijing has faced international criticism that its official Covid data and its tally of deaths are inconsistent with the scale of its outbreak. Some global health experts have said the virus could infect as many as 1 million people per day, and international modelling groups have predicted China could experience 2 million deaths or more.
High infection rates in the United States early in the pandemic gave Beijing room to argue its model of strict Covid prevention measures had saved lives.
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