Posted on 12/29/2022 12:13:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
The US, Japan, Taiwan and India also recently announced mandatory testing, as China deals with a Covid surge.
But the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said the surge was "not expected to impact" the EU.
In a statement, the ECDC said:
High levels of Covid in China are anticipated given the country's low immunity and recent relaxation of its rules
But higher immunity in the EU means a Covid surge in China is not expected to impact the bloc
The Covid-19 variants circulating in China are already circulating in the EU
Potential imported infections from China are "rather low" compared to the number of infections already occurring in the EU
And citizens in the bloc have relatively high vaccination and immunisation
Concerns were raised after Chinese authorities decided to let people travel more freely from 8 January, after almost three years of largely-closed borders.
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Didn’t a ton of Chinese just pop positive in Italy?
Last concert I went to.
The arena smelled funny…
These fools are either dangerously incompetent or just plain outrightly evil.
I vote evil.
It seems that every western govt is ruled by clinically insane and evil freaks now.
Try getting into a nursing home without being screened by being forced to take a worthless covid test.
“But higher immunity in the EU means a Covid surge in China is not expected to impact the bloc”
well, that depends, 1) we’re not sure for certain which mutants are running wild in China, 2) the EU is not 100% vaccinated, which increases the chances for additional mutants and increased elderly deaths 3) we’re not sure how many EU people are vaccinated with the updated Omnicron vaccine 4) or how effective the updated vaccines are against the latest versions of immunity-evading virus
until China comes clean, and/or Japan/India is able to sequence the virus spreading through China, it’s prudent to restrict travel from China
4)should be:
4) or how effective previously acquired immunity or the updated vaccines are against the latest versions of immunity-evading virus
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