Special COVID restrictions for travelers from China unjustified: Polish minister
Xinhua
2023/01/07

A worker disinfects a public space with ozone in Warsaw, Poland on April 10, 2021. (Str/Xinhua)

"We are dealing with the regular structure of the virus's genome that we have in Poland," Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said.

WARSAW, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Poland will not impose special COVID-19 restrictions on people coming from China, Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Thursday.

Niedzielski told a press conference that introducing such measures "does not seem justified."

There had been a decrease in the number of COVID-19 infections in the last two weeks, he said.

Employees produce antigen test kits for COVID-19 at a medical equipment company in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 4, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)

"Second, and this is actually decisive, neither the WHO (World Health Organization) nor any institution responsible for health at an international level has identified that we are dealing with some new mutation of the virus in China," he said.

"We are dealing with the regular structure of the virus's genome that we have in Poland," said the minister. 


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