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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Giselda Vagnoni and Philip Blenkinsop

Italy urges EU peers to test China arrivals for COVID, but many say 'no'

FILE PHOTO: Medical workers attend to patients at the intensive care unit of the emergency department at Beijing Chaoyang hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China December 27, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS

Italy on Thursday urged the rest of the European Union to follow its lead and test travellers from China for COVID, but others said they saw no need to do so for now or were waiting for a common stance across the largely border-less bloc.

The EU's health officials could not agree on one course of action when they held talks in the morning and said they would continue their talks later.

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