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There is a virus that spreads in the most populous country in the world at the worst possible moment: at the gates of the Chinese New Year, when

.

There are also many others who have already bought a ticket to visit their relatives abroad or who are going to take advantage of the holidays to take a great international trip through several countries.

This is happening at the end of December 2022, but the paragraph is taken from an article published by this newspaper in early 2020. There are several other

, when the coronavirus exploded in the city of Wuhan, with the situation that is now seen in many corners of China: hospitals collapsed, lack of medicines and the absence of credible numbers of infections and deaths due to the allergy to transparency that the Beijing regime has.

Even the response of some countries to the wave of Covid in China is reminiscent of what happened almost three years ago

: more controls at airports, the requirement of negative tests for travelers arriving from the Asian giant and quarantines for positive ones.

Recovering some of these measures is what they have already decided in the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, India and Italy.

In the latter, on a flight that landed at Milan airport on December 26, 52% of passengers tested positive.

direct witness

Consequences.

From the queue of a Chinese funeral home: "They are hiding the deaths from Covid"

• Drafting: LUCAS DE LA CAL (Shanghai)

From the queue of a Chinese funeral home: "They are hiding the deaths from Covid"

From the hospital.

One day locked up in a Shanghai fever clinic with dozens of elderly people with covid crowded into the corridors

• Writing: LUCAS DE LA CAL(Correspondent)Shanghai

One day locked up in a Shanghai fever clinic with dozens of elderly people with covid crowded into the corridors

China

,

has announced that its borders, after more than 1,000 days sealed

But now he's getting a taste of his own medicine.

The country that has spent three years restricting international flights, prohibiting the entry of tourists and forcing its nationals and foreigners with residence permits to do long quarantines, finds that other nations are now raising barriers to flights leaving China for fear that new variants of the virus will appear.

"

at the moment and if those variants are different in terms of their response to vaccination," Australian virologist Dominic Dwyer, one of the experts who participated in the trip that the WHO organized to Wuhan in early 2021 to investigate the origins of the pandemic.

The international response to the first large wave of uncontrolled infections in China has not been amusing in Beijing.

On Wednesday, Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, accused Western countries and the media of

In addition, he noted that

. "

It seems that Wang has forgotten all the times that he went to the press conference in Beijing to fan unscientific theories that the virus was released by the US military in Wuhan or that it reached China through frozen products and packages imported from other countries. countries.

The spokesman has asked that the measures that the countries are taking be "proportionate" and that "they do not affect the normal exchange between people."

Going back just a few months, it was the Chinese government that had issued the order

as part of the national Covid zero policy campaign.

Even many nationals with valid passports were thrown back when they were about to board if they tried to leave with a tourist visa.

Covid zero ended suddenly

and now Beijing demands that the rest of the world open its arms to Chinese travelers, who before the pandemic, in 2019, made 155 million trips, spending 250,000 million.

Or what is the same: 20% of all spending on international tourism, according to the World Tourism Organization.

Chinese media have reported that

such as

and

have skyrocketed since the lifting of strict border control restrictions was announced.

Although flight prices are still through the roof, 60% more on average for each ticket compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Japan

was the

as of December 30, in addition to requesting a negative PCR for all travelers coming from neighboring Asia.

The old test requirement will also be restored by the United States starting in January.

The

" data on the situation of the massive infections that are being reported.

"There is growing concern in the international community about Covid surges in China and the lack of transparent data, including viral genomic sequence data," they said.

A concern that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, already transferred to Beijing a few days ago.

"

on disease severity, hospital admissions and ICU support requirements," he requested.

On the verge of exactly three years since the Covid was first reported in Wuhan,

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