U.S. Government to Impose COVID-19 Restrictions on Travelers From China, Will Media Call It Xenophobic?

The U.S. federal government announced that the U.S. will impose COVID-19 restrictions on travelers from China starting January 5th.

Travelers from China must submit a negative COVID-19 test.

Will the mainstream media label the Biden administration xenophobic like they did the Trump administration in 2020?

Reports from Italy said that 50% of all passengers on two flights coming to Milan from China had COVID-19.

NEW 🚨 Italy says 50% of all passengers on two flights coming to Milan from China had Covid

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 28, 2022

Via Bloomberg:

Italian health authorities will begin testing all arrivals from China for Covid after almost half of the passengers on two flights to Milan were found to have the virus.

They are also sequencing the Milan tests to see if there are new variants, the Health Ministry said in a statement. If a new strain is found, officials may impose stricter curbs on travel from the country.

According to reports, China has experienced a COVID-19 outbreak since its government abandoned draconian zero-COVID policies.

The reported outbreak has prompted many countries to consider imposing new entry restrictions.

Zero Hedge reported:

China’s National Health Commission announced on Dec. 26 that the country would end all quarantine requirements for inbound travelers from Jan. 8, 2023.

Travelers will need to obtain a negative PCR test within 48 hours of departure, it said. Currently, travelers entering China need to undergo five days of mandatory quarantine in an approved facility, followed by three days at home.

The health body added that outbound tourism, which plummeted to almost nothing during the pandemic, will resume in an “orderly” fashion.

It also removed the cap on the number of international flights to and from China.

As The Epoch Times noted, there’s speculation that the Chinese Communist Party opened its borders to spread the outbreak around the world.

Sean Lin, a virologist and former lab director at the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, said that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) opening up of the country is actually a strategy to get everyone infected not only within China, but around the world.

“When they can’t control the outbreak, they push it to the whole world. Just like when COVID first broke out in Wuhan, people who had been infected in Wuhan were allowed to travel around the world. The strategy is the same now as before,” he said.

COVID first broke out around the fall of 2019 in Wuhan, a city with 11 million residents in central China. Prior to the city’s lockdown on Jan. 23, 2020, more than 5 million had left the city without being screened for the virus, according to the then-mayor of Wuhan. During China’s initial lockdowns in January, the CCP had banned domestic travel, but left international travel open, meaning a large number of people carrying the virus were able to seed the disease all over the world.

Lin pointed to the regime’s lack of transparency amid the latest outbreak, a consistent behavior over the past three years during the pandemic.

“The CCP is not sharing data, and the international community doesn’t know how many different virus variants are spreading in China, and whether there are other compound infections,” he said.

“Under such circumstances, it is extremely irresponsible for the CCP to let the people out of the country which is a huge epidemic area. Put another way, it has a very treacherous purpose and is very malicious.”