Japan is the latest country to tighten border controls for people who have visited mainland China, as the communist regime removes cross-border traveling restrictions despite a COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the country.
Starting from midnight on Dec. 30, travelers from mainland China are required to present a negative COVID test result upon arrival, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Dec. 27.
Visitors who test positive have to quarantine for seven days, Kishida told reporters. The government would also limit airlines increasing flights to China, he added.
Japan’s new measures came as mainland China emerged from the nearly 3-year-old zero-COVID policy that has roiled the world’s second-largest economy and fuelled the country’s biggest show of public discontent in decades….