The introduction of mandatory Covid-19 screening within the European Union for travelers arriving from China, which is experiencing an explosion in cases, is “unjustified”estimated this Thursday, December 29, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
With its management of the Covid, a politically and economically weakened China
EU countries “have relatively high levels of immunization and vaccination” and the “Variants circulating in China are already circulating in the EU”says the ECDC in a press release, explaining that such a measure is not necessary at the level of the European Union as a whole.
For the European agency, “potential infections” that can be imported are “rather weak” compared to the number of infections already circulating on a daily basis. Health systems “are now able to manage” disease, she added.
Italy, Japan, the United States have already imposed tests
The European Commission called a meeting on Thursday to ” discuss […] possible measures for a coordinated approach” of EU states in the face of the explosion of Covid cases in China.
Several countries including Italy or Japan, as well as the United States, have already decided to impose compulsory tests on all travelers coming from China.
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