China orders overseas mail disinfection over Omicron fears

A worker swabs a man for a coronavirus test in northern China's Tianjin Municipality, on Jan. 15, 2022. - AP

BEIJING (AFP): China's postal service has ordered workers to disinfect international deliveries and urged the public to reduce orders from overseas after authorities claimed mail could be the source of recent coronavirus outbreaks.

China, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, has stuck to a strict policy of targeting zero Covid cases even as the rest of the world has reopened.