The Chinese language authorities on Sunday mentioned it could resume granting visas for Japanese residents. “Beginning right now, the Embassy and the Workplaces of the Consulates-Basic of the Folks’s Republic of China will resume issuing strange visas for Japanese residents,” an announcement posted on-line by the Chinese language Embassy in Tokyo mentioned.
China had stopped the issuing of strange visas for Japanese nationals from January 10. The ban was prompted by Tokyo saying it could require COVID-19 testing for travellers from mainland China.
Vacationers coming from China into Japan will want a destructive check within the 72 hours earlier than boarding their flight, with Chinese language guests topic to additional testing upon arrival.
China has labelled the COVID-19 testing coverage by Japan “discriminatory,” and mentioned it believes COVID measures ought to be “science-based.” But the Japanese authorities defended the transfer, as a result of excessive variety of infections in China and lack of transparency coming from Beijing.
China’s easing of COVID insurance policies elevate considerations in Japan, South Korea
China started lifting its zero-COVID insurance policies in December, with most border restrictions being eliminated on January 8. This prompted fears amongst China’s Asian neighbours comparable to Japan and South Korea {that a} surge of inbound Chinese language travellers would trigger an increase of infections of their international locations.
Japan and South Korea are common vacationer locations for mainland Chinese language.
China has not but introduced whether or not it’ll resume the issuing of visas for South Koreans. South Korea additionally applied comparable COVID-19 measures in direction of mainland China arrivals as Japan.
