Pandemic: The US is considering the possibility of imposing new measures on travelers from China

The US government is considering imposing new measures on travelers arriving in the country from China, amid concerns over Beijing’s “lack of transparent data” on the course of the novel coronavirus pandemic, US officials said. who were not named, to Reuters and Bloomberg news agencies on Tuesday.

Japan, India and Malaysia have already announced within the last 24 hours that they are taking new measures regarding travelers from China, due to the surge of infections in the Asian giant of 1.41 billion inhabitants.

Tokyo has announced that all travelers arriving from China will be required to be tested for SARS-CoV-2. Kuala Lumpur has announced that it will take new tracking and surveillance measures.

The concerns of the international community about the outbreaks of the pandemic in China and the complete “lack” of reliable, “transparent data” about them, including “data on the sequencing of the virus genome”, from the side of Beijing, have now become a “mountain”, they explained American officials.

Hospitals and funeral parlors have been overwhelmed in China since the authorities decided in early December to abruptly end the “zero COVID” policy — eradicating the virus and the disease it causes — following unprecedented protests against the draconian measures. the virus spreads virtually unchecked.

However, according to official statistics for the seven days to yesterday Monday, there was just one death due to complications of COVID-19. The concern of experts and citizens about the reliability of the data is intensified, as they have nothing to do with the experience of other countries, with much smaller populations, after they reopened their economies.

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