In China , the mandatory quarantine for foreign citizens arriving from abroad has been stopped.

Thus ends the three years of isolation in Beijing, at a time when, however, new outbreaks are being recorded in the country . Initially, the anti-contagion protocol provided for a three-week isolation period in specific " Covid hotels ". Last summer the duration was reduced to one week, then in November the further reduction to 5 days.

As of the stroke of midnight , after the government restriction was lifted, 387 passengers from Singapore and Toronto arrived in China, landing in Guangzhou and Shenzhen respectively. It is estimated that with the reopening of the border between Hong Kong and metropolitan China, at least 400,000 inhabitants of the city are about to travel in the coming weeks.

“I think this news is a good, human thing . It was a necessary step. I think that Covid has been “normalized” and with this obstacle removed, everything will now go smoothly », commented a woman, about to board a flight from Shanghai to abroad.

(Unioneonline/vf)