Italy Orders Covid Tests For China Arrivals, U.S. Weighs Rules

Italy has ordered Covid tests for all China visitors following a wave of transmission in the world’s most populous nation after the end of “zero-Covid” rules there this month.

“I have ordered mandatory Covid-19 antigenic swabs, and related virus sequencing, for all passengers coming from China and transiting through Italy,” Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said, according to a report by AFP. The measure was “essential to ensure the surveillance and identification of any variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population.”