China is unhappy and threatens “countermeasures”

China opposed the new requirements for testing on the Covid-19, introduced by some countries to travelers from China, saying that this measure “has no scientific grounds,” the Voice of America reports.

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The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Mao Ning said that China can introduce “countermeasures based on the principle of reciprocity.”

Against the background of a surge in the incidence of Covid-19 in China, government of other countries accused Beijing of the absence of transparency of its data on the spread of infection. American centers for monitoring and prevention of incidence (CDC) last week announced that air passengers from China should provide a negative result of the covid-19 test or proof of recovery before they can go aboard.