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As many countries around the world, including us, raised the quarantine threshold for people coming from China, China even hinted at the possibility of retaliatory measures, saying that it would take corresponding measures.

In response, the United States refuted that China had no reason to retaliate, saying it was based on scientific grounds.

The European Union also decided to hold an emergency meeting tonight (4th) in our time and discuss joint quarantine measures.

In addition to this, the World Health Organization has also demanded China's transparent information disclosure, but China is strongly opposing it, saying it is a hypocritical double standard.



Correspondent Jung Young-tae in Beijing pointed out the background.



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Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs continued to criticize today, saying, "Don't politicize the epidemic."



State-run media outlets also criticized entry restrictions from China as "a waste of time and resources and a hypocritical double standard."



There were also warnings that regulating Chinese tourists would not help the country's economy.



In particular, several countries are intensively refuting this, citing the need for tracking and monitoring whether or not a new mutation has occurred from China.



[Maoning/Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson: The coronavirus that is currently in vogue in China has already spread from all over the world.

A new virus can appear anywhere.]



Currently, at least 14 countries, including Korea and the United States, have strengthened quarantine regulations for entrants from China, and when the European Union also announced a joint response meeting, the intention was to prevent the spread of regulations in China. will be solved with



However, it is pointed out that this kind of Chinese reaction is against the negative.



In the case of a warning about the appearance of a new mutation that other countries are concerned about, China's highest authority on infectious diseases issued it first in the middle of last month.



[Zhong Nanshan/Scholar of China Fair (15th of last month): China has a large population.

Large-scale infections in a short period of time not only affect daily life, but can also lead to the appearance of new mutations.]



In addition, they oppose the measures of Korea and Japan to isolate confirmed cases for one week among entrants from China, but even if the PCR test result is negative, they are unconditionally 8 days China's regulations, which have been quarantined, have been stricter.



In addition, China protests, "Why only China discriminates?", but in the meantime, differential standards have been applied from time to time, such as the number and method of pre-entry inspections, because the corona situation in each country, including Korea, is different.



Nevertheless, as China has declared corresponding measures, it is expected that it will soon come up with separate measures for countries that restrict entry.



(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Kim Byung-jik)



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