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    The US and other countries have imposed Covid testing requirements for visitors from China as China plans to reopen its borders next week after three years. While China's daily reported Covid cases are around 5,000, analysts believe the actual number is closer to 1 million given overwhelmed hospitals and shortages of basic medicines. An epidemiologist says China's case numbers were expected to rise with the reopening due to a susceptible population without prior exposure.

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    The US and other countries have imposed Covid testing requirements for visitors from China as China plans to reopen its borders next week after three years. While China's daily reported Covid cases are around 5,000, analysts believe the actual number is closer to 1 million given overwhelmed hospitals and shortages of basic medicines. An epidemiologist says China's case numbers were expected to rise with the reopening due to a susceptible population without prior exposure.

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    Covid in China: US imposes Covid testing for visitors from China The US has become the latest country to
    impose Covid testing on visitors from China, after Beijing announced it would reopen borders next week.
    Italy, Japan, Taiwan and India also announced mandatory tests, but Australia and UK said there were no
    new rules for travellers from China. After three years of being closed to the world, China will let people
    travel more freely from 8 January.

    But the country's ongoing Covid surge has sparked wariness. China has officially reported about 5,000
    cases a day this week, but analysts say the numbers are vastly undercounted - and the daily case load is
    closer to a million. Hospitals in major cities are overwhelmed and residents are struggling to find basic
    medicines, according to reports.

    "The infection surge in China is on expected lines," Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, an Indian epidemiologist
    and health systems specialist told the BBC in a recent interview. "If you have a susceptible population
    that is not exposed to the virus, cases will rise. Nothing has changed for the rest of the world, including
    India."

    Wang Wenbin, China's foreign ministry spokesman, said on Wednesday that "Currently the
    development of China's epidemic situation is overall predictable and under control". He said China
    believed all countries' Covid responses should be "science-based and proportionate", and should "not
    affect normal people-to-people exchange". He accused some countries and media of "hyping up" the
    situation and "distorting China's Covid policy adjustments".

    China's decision to reopen its borders marks the end of the country's controversial zero-Covid policy,
    which President Xi Jinping had personally endorsed. Even as the rest of the world opened up and found
    ways to live with the virus, Beijing insisted on mass testing and sweeping, stringent lockdowns to bring
    cases down to zero. The economy took a hit and people grew both exhausted and angry - in November,
    the frustration spilled onto the streets in rare protests against Mr Xi and his government.

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