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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)


EU wants systematic COVID testing for passengers from China - DW - 01/03/2023.
A sudden influx of passengers from China coupled with Chinese government reticence to permit the World Health Organization to test for new variants has sparked various levels of concern among EU officials regarding the emergence of new forms of the potentially legal virus.
France, Spain and Italy are among the EU nations that have already imposed new testing requirements on passengers arriving from China prior to a coordinated approach from the EU. While Italy, hard hit at the start of the pandemic, was first to introduce testing, France requires masks be worn on flights from China and has asked French citizens to curb nonessential travel to the Asian nation.


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The new strain is everywhere by now. It sounds more like they're trying to point at China and focus on them, rather than being responsible and screening ALL passengers on all flights. If the EU thinks that the new Omicron variant is just going to be carried by ethnic Chinese and tourists from China, they haven't learned anything from the alpha strain at all. As usual, it's just more political posturing and passing of the buck.