Global alarm grows over China’s COVID-19 surge

  BEIJING , China - The United States joined nations imposing Covid tests on travellers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases, but the EU's health agency said Thursday such measures weren't warranted in the bloc. The head of the World Health Organization, however, said the restrictions some countries were introducing were "understandable" given the lack of information out of Beijing. Hospitals across China have been overwhelmed by an explosion of infections following Beijing's decision to lift strict rules that had largely kept the virus at bay but tanked the economy and sparked widespread protests. China said this week it would ...

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