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China May Not Soon Relax Restrictions on Foreign Visitors: Times

CHINA PRESS
MNI (Singapore)

China may not relax restrictions on foreign visitors soon even as it prepares for the limited opening of its borders with Hong Kong, the Global Times reported citing an anonymous Beijing-based immunologist. A quarantine-free opening to foreign visitors in the short term would have an incalculable negative impact on China, and previous outbreaks abroad have repeatedly demonstrated that cold temperatures in winter tend to cause a strong rebound in the epidemic, the expert was cited as saying. China's "zero policy" will not be adjusted even after the resumption of quarantine-free travel between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, and Chinese experts have not yet discussed future adjustments in China's policy, the newspaper said citing an expert from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention who requested anonymity.

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