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Israel's Ministry of Health announced today that it will require mandatory rapid tests for COVID-19 for foreign nationals arriving from China due to the high rate of cases in the Asian country, reported AFP.

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Health Minister Arie Deri, who took office yesterday, today gathered senior representatives from the health sector to discuss the extremely high number of people infected with COVID-19 in China.

The department said in a statement that during the meeting "it was decided that foreign airlines will only accept passengers from China on their way to Israel against (negative) coronavirus tests."

Derry has asked the country's health authorities to also set up voluntary testing points for arrivals from China and recommended avoiding travel to that country.

China is going through a serious wave of COVID-19 cases after it abruptly rolled back most measures of its "zero-covid" policy at the beginning of the month.

Official Beijing has announced an end to mandatory quarantine on arrival, effective January 8, as well as a gradual resumption of overseas travel by Chinese citizens, which has alarmed many countries, including the United States.

Israel was one of the first countries to carry out mass vaccination against COVID-19.

He imposed mandatory testing for foreign nationals and even special exemptions for arrivals from some countries, before lifting almost all measures at the start of the year.

Spain will require a coronavirus test from those arriving from China

Earlier today, Spain announced it was introducing checks for those arriving on flights from China.

Before that, Italy was the first EU member state to introduce a requirement for negative coronavirus tests for travelers from China.

The US and Japan also took similar measures.

In a statement from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control yesterday, mandatory rapid tests for coronavirus in EU countries for arrivals from China were defined as "unjustified", notes BTA.

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