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South Korea was among the most searched travel destinations for Chinese tourists after mainland officials eased lockdown measures and pivoted from their zero-Covid strategy.
And do away, rather, with quarantine for international travelers from the 8th of january. that has been today brought about some news from hong kong. where today, they said that they would do away with quite a few of their quarantine measures as well. the only real measure staying in place is that of masks being being instituted. pcr tests will not necessarily be done for inbound travelers as well. and neither then will they have a covid pass which has been a regular regulation of late. so market taking that. and seeing perhaps a sense of positivity from that. but whether that will be sustaine...
From Thursday, people arriving in the city — a special administrative region of China — will no longer have to do mandatory PCR tests.
Ivan? >> reporter: for the first time in months, the chinese government has announced a relaxation significantly of its strict zero covid policies and that's triggered some real excitement, for example, a surge in inquiries about plane tickets for internal travel and why is it so important? because look at some of the changes, for example, the government says that no longer will people need to be required to get negative pcr tests to go into public places like shopping malls, for example. previously a lot of cities required people to line up and get tests every 48 hours just to do things like ...
And most recently, unprecedented protests. cnn's ivan watson has more on the changes. ivan? >> reporter: for the first time in months, the chinese government has announced a relaxation, significant relaxation of its strict zero covid policies, and that's triggered some real excitement. for example, a surge in inquiries about plane tickets for internal travel, and why is this so important? because look at some of the changes. for example, the government says that no longer will people need to be required to get negative pcr tests to go into public places like shopping malls, for example. previo...