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As China announced, it conducted a COVID-19 PCR test on entrants from South Korea.
However, even though they boarded the same plane, Chinese nationals were excluded from the inspection.
Correspondent Jung Young-tae covered the scene in Wuhan, China.
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Yesterday (1st) afternoon at Wuhan International Airport in China.
When the plane departed from Incheon Airport arrived, Chinese passengers came out to the departure hall in about 30 minutes.
From inside the plane, through passport control, Chinese nationals were allowed to get off first, and then other foreigners were allowed to get off last.
[In-flight announcement: (China and Taiwan) Passport holders are getting off first.
After a while, guests of other nationalities are expected to do so as well.]
Most of the foreign passengers, excluding Chinese, were Korean.
Foreign nationals who got off the plane moved to a separate passage and received PCR tests one by one.
[Passenger from Incheon to Wuhan: My child wants to go to the bathroom, but I asked what to do.
The staff just gestured a few times and responded without saying anything.]
Passengers who have completed the test exit the departure hall regardless of the results, and if they are tested positive, they will be quarantined.
The situation was similar for all 10 flights from Korea that arrived in China yesterday.
At Wuhan Airport, as well as in Hangzhou and Nanjing, only foreign passengers, including Koreans, were tested for corona, excluding Chinese passengers.
[Passengers arriving from Incheon to Wuhan: I wasn't in a good mood.
I think I felt discriminated against when I entered the country together.
I wonder if it will be retaliatory...
.]
The Korean government is conducting corona tests for all entrants from China, regardless of nationality.
China's exclusion of its citizens from corona testing seems to have made it clearer that this measure is a retaliatory quarantine.
(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)