China may be reopening, allowing its 1.4 billion people to come and go largely without restrictions, but just as it is, more and more countries are tightening measures for travellers from the world’s second-biggest economy, concerned the tsunami of virus cases there may spawn new Covid variants.
In early December, China did away with almost all domestic Covid restrictions in one fell swoop. That has resulted in the virus running wild and unchecked through its population, with almost 37 million people possibly having been infected on a single day in late December.
