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Germany Calls Its Citizens to Avoid Traveling to China


Sat 07 Jan 2023 | 05:50 PM
Israa Farhan

Germany’s Foreign Ministry recommended that German citizens abandon "for the time being all unnecessary trips" to China due to the Corona situation there.

On Saturday, the ministry wrote on Twitter, justifying the warning against travel, that the number of Corona cases in China has now reached its highest level since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

The Chinese health system is overburdened, which also affected the adequacy of care even in medical emergencies, according to the defense ministry.

The ministry added that Beijing will be classified, starting from the ninth of this month, as a risk area for virus variants, and compulsory testing will apply for those coming to Germany from China, starting from the day after tomorrow, Monday.

The European Union recommended that the member states of the Union conduct a test for (COVID-19) for arrivals from China, but the bloc failed to agree on imposing mandatory tests.