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Newshour: 08/01/2023 13:06 GMT: China lifts international travel restrictions

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China lifts international travel restrictions

08/01/2023 13:06 GMT

08/01/2023 13:06 GMT: China lifts international travel restrictions

BBC World Service - Newshour, China lifts international travel restrictions

In spite of a huge surge in Covid-19 cases, restrictions on travellers are scrapped

In spite of a huge surge in Covid-19 cases, restrictions on travellers are scrapped.

International travellers have been arriving in China by land and by air after the country lifted its self-imposed isolation after more than 1000 days, when the Covid-19 pandemic was first detected. We ask are the restrictions being lifted too quickly?


Also in the programme: Russia's self-declared ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Orthodox Christmas comes to end but we'll hear from a place where the attacks never stopped; and life as a drag queen in conservative South Korea

Photo: A man greets a woman who landed with international flight on the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China Credit: Alex Plavevski/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

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