Covid tests to be scrapped for travelers from China, Hong Kong, Macau

The areas where people traveling from China being tested for Covid-19 on arrival at Incheon International Airport. Since late last month, the Korean government has been lifting regulations. [YONHAP]

Starting Saturday, people traveling from China, Hong Kong and Macau will no longer have to take a Covid-19 test before entering Korea.

The Korean quarantine authority announced Wednesday that the pre-departure test results required from anyone traveling from those three regions will be lifted.

“The Covid-19 situation in China has continued to remain stable since the Chinese New Year holidays,” said Lim Sook-young, director of the infectious disease crisis response bureau at the Central Disease Control Headquarters. “And there have been no new variants of concern.”

BY LEE HO-JEONG [lee.hojeong@joongang.co.kr]