Germany and Luxembourg “advise against” trips to China
Luxembourg aligns with the German travel advisory and currently advises against non-essential travel to China due to covid-19.
Pandemic
Luxembourg aligns with the German travel advisory and currently advises against non-essential travel to China due to covid-19.
(MKa with AFP) – The German Foreign Ministry announced this Saturday “to advise against” non-essential travel to China, faced with a wave of covid contamination unprecedented for three years.
“We currently advise against non-essential travel to China. The reason is the spike in covid infections and the overburdened health system,” the ministry’s rapid response center said on Twitter. In the process, the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs was part of its alignment with this decision by means of a press release at the end of the day.
Thus, from Monday January 9 until at least Friday March 31, anyone arriving in the Grand Duchy after having spent the previous 14 days in China will be required to declare their presence to the health and may therefore be subject to random testing.
An unprecedented wave of contamination
China is facing an unprecedented wave of contamination for three years and the European Union has strongly encouraged its member states this week to impose screening carried out in China, before the flight, and encouraged the Twenty-Seven to complete this device with “random tests” on arrival on European soil. As a precaution, several countries including the United States, Japan, France and Germany have already decreed identical measures.
Despite the rebound in contamination, the Chinese authorities will end mandatory quarantines on arrival in China on Sunday and once again allowing Chinese people to travel abroad, after three years of frustration. Beijing on Tuesday condemned the imposition of covid tests by some countries, deeming them “unacceptable” and threatening “countermeasures”.
The World Health Organization (WHO) denounces for its part the controversial methods of Beijing to count the victims of the covid. Although Chinese hospitals are overwhelmed and crematoriums full, authorities are reporting very few covid-19 related deaths.