Covid tests to be scrapped for travelers from China, Hong Kong, Macau
Published: 08 Mar. 2023, 12:23
Updated: 09 Mar. 2023, 16:52
![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]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/03/09/d96bc32c-8798-441f-905e-0ae7009c8e4a.jpg)
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 [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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