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The Places With New Covid Rules for China Travelers
- China reopening borders as cases surge across the country
- Over a dozen countries impose various rules or halt entry
China may be reopening, allowing its 1.4 billion people to come and go largely without restrictions, but just as it is, more and more countries are tightening measures for travelers from the world’s second-biggest economy, concerned the tsunami of virus cases there may spawn new Covid variants.
In early December, China did away with almost all domestic Covid restrictions in one fell swoop. That’s seen the virus run wild and unchecked through its population, with almost 37 million people possibly having been infected on a single day in late December.