Airline passengers leaving China, Hong Kong and Macau should present proof of a unfavourable COVID-19 check after they enter Canada beginning Thursday.
The Canadian authorities introduced final week that the travellers would wish a unfavourable check administered inside 48 hours of their departure as circumstances soar in China.
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Other international locations, together with the United States and several other European nations, imposed comparable guidelines regardless of protest from China.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson criticized the change in necessities this week, saying some international locations had been trying to govern COVID measures for political functions and it could take countermeasures.
Penny Tao, who arrived in Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong Wednesday, says she moved up her flight to keep away from testing forward of a busy Chinese New Year schedule later this month.
Jiayuan Jin, a University of B.C. scholar, might be among the many first arrivals beneath the brand new testing guidelines when her flight lands on Saturday, and says she helps the brand new technique, particularly as a result of testing cubicles are quite a few in China and outcomes can be found inside 10 hours.
