The US recommended this Monday to its citizens to “reconsider traveling” to China due to “restrictions related to covid-19”, where confinements and movement restrictions were resumed.
The US advised its citizens on Monday to “reconsider traveling” to China due to “restrictions related to covid-19” following the confinement of entire cities has been dictated and strong measures have been implemented that limit mobility.
The State Department reported through a statement that the travel alert has gone from level 2, which the US uses to ask its citizens to “pay more attention”, to level 3, intended for situations of greater risk.
“You should not travel to Hong Kong (…) or to the Shanghai municipality due to restrictions related to covid-19, which include the risk of separation of parents and children,” the text points out.
Specifically, it explains that the “zero tolerance” regarding the coronavirus of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments “severely impacts travel and access to public services.”
Anyone who arrives in the country, he points out, must go through a minimum quarantine of 14 days, during which visitors cannot leave their rooms and have to take daily tests for covid-19.
If they test positive, they are transferred to government medical facilities where the “standards of care, accommodation, testing, or treatment.”os may differ considerably from US standards.”
“In some cases, children in Hong Kong and China who test positive have been separated from their parents and isolated until they meet local hospital requirements for discharge,” it adds.
China is going through a wave of outbreaks attributed to the omicron variant that is causing record numbers of unseen infections since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.
According to the latest figures from the National Health Commission of China, this Tuesday 1,272 new positives for coronavirus have been detected the day before -1,251 due to local contagion-, in addition to 23,387 asymptomatic cases.
The provinces or cities with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 994), Jilin (northeast, 171), Hainan (south, 21), and Guangzhou (south, 16).
