China to resume issuing passports, visas as COVID-19 curbs ease
China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years.
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China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years.
Few countries can be said to have truly responded adequately to the deadly threat of the coronavirus, and ours certainly isn’t near the top, with a poisonous fixation on individual liberty that shot even basic collective efforts to ward off the crisis.
Global concern grows that Beijing may be too slow to report new variants to the rest of world. Which, in turn, could lead to new outbreaks.
In China, most people have never been exposed to the coronavirus. China's vaccines rely on an older technology producing fewer antibodies than messenger RNA vaccines.
China has reduced testing and stopped reporting most mild COVID cases. China is among a few countries that managed to stop most domestic transmission of the virus in 2020, but it’s the last to end restrictions.