The Government is facing pressure to impose Covid tests on passengers arriving from China after Beijing announced it would reopen its borders next month.
China has recently reversed the anti-virus controls that kept it in isolation for nearly three years and announced plans to reissue passports and visas for overseas trips. The country had stopped issuing visas to foreigners and passports to its own people at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020.
However, the abrupt end of Beijing’s zero-Covid policy has sparked a reported surge in Covid cases and plans to reopen the borders for the New Year have raised concerns about the possible spread of the virus.
