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Australian health minister suggests pre-flight China tests designed to make Beijing share more data on Covid outbreak
Mark Butler signals measure could be lifted if China provides ‘real-time uploading’ of genomic sequencing of cases
Australia’s health minister says he wants pre-flight Covid testing for travellers from China to be “temporary”, suggesting the requirement could be lifted if Beijing shares more information about its outbreak.
Mark Butler suggested on Thursday – the first day of the new testing regime – that the measure was put in place as part of an international push for China to provide real-time data on the genomic sequencing of Covid cases.
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