Beijing. China has announced to lift the ban on travel amid the fast growing coronavirus cases. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has announced the removal of these restrictions from 8 January. However, experts have also issued a warning in this regard as all the hospitals in the country are badly overcrowded due to the high number of cases. Airlines companies are also worried about China’s decision to resume travel in such bad conditions. The Chinese Aviation Department has said that from January 8, it will stop designating high-risk domestic flights, as well as eliminate 75 percent of passenger capacity.
Chinese and foreign airlines will arrange scheduled passenger flights according to bilateral agreements. The Chinese government has canceled the quarantine requirements for incoming travelers from 8 January. There was only one death due to Kovid-19 in China this week, according to official figures, leading to doubts among health experts and local people about the government’s figures.
The situation of Kovid in China from bad to worse
China’s hospitals have five to six times more patients than normal. Most of them are elderly. Health experts believe that millions of cases are coming to the fore every day in China. At the same time, in 2023, at least one million deaths are being predicted in China. More than half of the passengers of a flight that reached Milan from China to Italy have been found infected with Kovid-19. After this, Italy has made RT-PCR test mandatory for passengers coming from China.
The world suspects China
The move to make Covid-19 testing mandatory for travelers coming from China in many countries is a clear reflection of the global concern that new variants may emerge during the outbreak of the virus and there may be a lack of information about it.
So far there is no information about any new form of the virus, but China has been accused of not coming forward and giving information about the virus that first came to light in late 2019. There are still apprehensions that China will not share information on any indication of emerging forms of the virus that could lead to an overwhelming number of infections in the world.
The impact of China’s decisions on the whole world
Miles Yu, director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute in Washington, said the global skepticism and resentment is directly related to China’s ruling Communist Party’s sudden decision to ease strict restrictions.
“You can’t fool around with a zero-Covid lockdown that has proven to be a failure … and then suddenly freeing millions of people in other countries to rush out of China,” Yu said in an email. was put at risk of infection.