BEIJING : China will scrap the quarantine requirement for international arrivals starting from January 8, 2023, the country\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement.<\/p>\n
NHC said passengers traveling to China need to take nucleic acid test within 48 hours before boarding their flights to China, adding that nucleic acid screenings and centralized isolation after arrival will be canceled, CGTN reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn light of the international epidemic situation and service capacity, the outbound travel of Chinese citizens will be resumed in an orderly manner,\u201d NHC said.<\/p>\n
In addition, NHC noted that China has renamed the novel coronavirus pneumonia as novel coronavirus infection.
\nChina will also downgrade management of the disease from Class A to Class B in accordance with the Law of the People\u2019s Republic of China on Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Disease, starting January 8, the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BEIJING : China will scrap the quarantine requirement for international arrivals starting from January 8, 2023, the country\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement. NHC said passengers traveling to China need to take nucleic acid test within 48 hours before boarding their flights to China, adding that nucleic acid screenings and centralized isolation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n