GENEVA — The World Health Organisation said a lack of data was making it challenging to help China manage the risks of a Covid-19 surge over the Chinese New Year holiday, as the world's second-largest economy reopens after three years of isolation.
The holiday, known before the pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people, comes amid an escalating diplomatic spat over Covid-19 curbs that saw Beijing introduce transit curbs for South Korean and Japanese nationals on Wednesday .
"We've been working with our China colleagues," said Abdi Rahman Mahamud, director of the WHO's alert & response coordination department, who said the country has a number of strategies around people travelling from high-risk to low-risk areas, as well as around testing and clinics.That was also an issue in working with China on how to mitigate the risks of travel ahead of the Chinese New Year, which officially runs from Jan 21, the WHO said.
In response, the Chinese embassies in Seoul and Tokyo said on Tuesday they had suspended issuing short-term visas for travellers to China, with the foreign ministry slamming the testing requirements as"discriminatory". "We won't be able to make short-term business trips, but such trips had dwindled during Covid anyway," said a South Korean chip industry source who declined to be identified."But if the situation lasts long, there will be an effect."Some of the governments that announced curbs on travellers from China cited concerns over Beijing's data transparency.
China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Health Commission did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Although international health experts have predicted at least 1 million Covid-related deaths this year, China has reported just over 5,000 since the pandemic began, a fraction of what other countries have reported as they reopened.State media said the Covid-19 wave was already past its peak in the provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan and Hainan, as well as in the large cities of Beijing and Chongqing - home to more than 500 million people combined.
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