Chinese travelers facing COVID-19 testing requirements from more countries amid outbreak - Fox News

China is dealing with an explosive outbreak of COVID-19 arsenic wellness officials unbend their draconian "zero-COVID" containment policy, prompting respective countries astir the satellite to mandate tests for Chinese travelers. 

The U.S. cited the surge successful infections arsenic good arsenic a "lack of capable and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic series data" from China's authorities successful announcing a investigating request past week. 

Passengers hole to committee a formation astatine the airdrome successful north-central China's Jiangxi province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Italy besides mandated tests for Chinese travelers past week aft much than fractional of each passengers connected arriving flights astatine Milan’s Malpensa airdrome tested affirmative for COVID-19. 

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The European Union volition clasp an Integrated Political Crisis Response gathering connected Wednesday to determine if introduction restrictions passim the 27-nation bloc should beryllium required. 

Travelers locomotion astatine a terminal hallway of the Beijing Capital International Airport successful Beijing, China, connected March 23, 2022. (REUTERS/Tingshu Wang)

Australia announced connected Monday that travelers from China, Hong Kong, and Macau volition person to acquisition pre-departure investigating for COVID-19. 

"This determination has been made to safeguard Australia from the hazard of imaginable caller emerging variants, and successful designation of the rapidly evolving concern successful China and uncertainty astir emerging viral variants," Australia's Department of Health explained. 

Residents enactment up extracurricular a pharmacy to bargain antigen investigating kits for coronavirus, successful Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China December 15, 2022.  (China Daily via REUTERS/File Photo)

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Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, and different countries person implemented akin restrictions connected arrivals from China. 

China's zero-COVID strategy kept millions of radical connected lockdown for weeks astatine a time, but the authorities abruptly started loosening that argumentation past period pursuing wide protests. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.