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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

UNCOVERED: Australian health minister suggests pre flight china tests designed to make beijing share more data on covid outbreak - Caught on Camera

Travellers walk with their luggage at Beijing Capital International Airport
Australia’s health minister Mark Butler says the requirement for travellers from China to have a negative Covid test is a ‘modest’ measure. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters

Australia’s health minister says he wants pre-flight Covid testing for travellers from China to be “temporary”, suggesting the requirement could be lifted if Beijing shares more information about its outbreak.

Mark Butler suggested on Thursday – the first day of the new testing regime – that the measure was put in place as part of an international push for China to provide real-time data on the genomic sequencing of Covid cases.

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