Global alarm grows over China's Covid surge

The United States announced that it would require negative Covid tests for all travellers from mainland China. - AP

BEIJING (AFP): The United States is the latest in a growing number of countries to impose restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing abruptly removed a major impediment to overseas travel despite surging Covid cases at home.

Hospitals across China have been overwhelmed by an explosion of Covid cases following Beijing's decision to lift strict rules that had largely kept the virus at bay but tanked its economy and sparked widespread protests.