Australia to require negative COVID tests for travelers from China

Stupid, I thought we were better than the rest of the sheep countries! One in all in! If they need them from China what about Japan with the highest case count in the world??

Stupid, I thought we were better than the rest of the sheep countries!

Indeed, so did I. Glad you said it.

But the good thing is, it's the wise thing to do. It buys time until experts such as the WHO etc can get a handle on the situation.

On the other hand, if China were to start to sincerely share real data, things would not have to be like this. Can't ignore those facts, painful as they are.

China is not the only country with restrictions on by far!

Fully vaccinated Japan departees are going to very soon be taking a negative test result to India for entry….

In the absence of comprehensive information from #China, it is understandable that countries around the world are acting in ways that they believe may protect their populations. #COVID19

says the WHO's director general on Twitter.

Well said.

The WHO is owned by China's CCP... so I doubt anything said by them.

Australia should implement a quarantine as well. Let's make sure Chinese New Years 2023 isn't going to be 2020 2.0.

3 years later and China still isn't being up front with the world.

It's too late, mate. The damage will be done by the 5th. I saw tens of thousands of Chinese tourists roaming throughout Sapporo this past week, many coughing and many happy to not be wearing masks. I do not doubt the same for Oz or the USA (which also is delaying its testing requirements until the 5th.) I'm sure tens of thousands of Chinese traveled down under without a test (or perhaps showing specious vaccination cards from Sinopharm or other next-to-useless vaccination.) Expect massive spikes in Japan and the USA and Australia to start next week with the tourist centers scoring first.

If there is to be any benefit from it, all these countries need to keep the requirement through the Lunar New Year a month from now.

Looks like the sheep win….

So what are the Australian authorities actually protecting Australians from….Covid or some other new virus out of China? Hate to break it to the sheep but Covid is out of the bag and Japan has the most cases in the world! If this was anything more than a purely political browning of the nose, then Australia would be implementing negative test requirements for all countries not just the CCP! I mean if you want to bring someone into the fold instead of alienating them wouldn’t you treat them like the rest instead of the specials?? But no let’s start a war instead…great….

SanjinosebleedToday  03:16 pm JST

Stupid, I thought we were better than the rest of the sheep countries! One in all in! If they need them from China what about Japan with the highest case count in the world??

Exactly.

And at the same time, isn't Australia basically fully vaccinated?

What's there to worry about?