Shortly following the announcement of the end of the mandatory quarantine for those arriving in Chinese territory, defined by the Xi Jinping regime for January 8, millions of Chinese rushed to travel websites, with these companies registering ten times more bookings than than the previous year with the main destinations being Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and South Korea.
The announcement of the end of restrictions comes at a time when the covid-19 pandemic is not completely under control, with an estimated 250 million people in China being infected, with hospitals and crematoriums bursting at the seams and with many Chinese not having access to medicines such as paracetamol, which serve to reduce fever.
This situation is worrying countries around the world, especially the most desired countries for Chinese travel such as Japan, where the Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, assumed that there was “a growing concern” with the arrival of these tourists demanding a negative PCR test. who arrives from China. Other countries followed this trend, such as India or Malaysia.
The United States, on the other hand, regretted “the lack of transparent data” regarding this new outbreak of the pandemic, with the country also preparing to impose restrictions on all visitors from China.
In 2019, 150 million Chinese tourists traveled the world and the following year, the first year of the pandemic, only 20 million traveled abroad. Although it has been possible to travel from China for the last three years, travel was strongly discouraged by Beijing authorities who limited flight slots at airports and banned group tours abroad.
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