China lifts mandatory quarantine requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic for passengers arriving in the country from January 8, 2023. According to the AP agency, the relevant information was released by the Chinese National Health Commission..

Passengers arriving in the country now must undergo five days of quarantine at the hotel, and then another three days at home.. At the same time, earlier quarantine restrictions lasted up to three weeks..

The lifting of quarantine requirements is an important step for the full resumption of interaction with the rest of the world, which the government has seriously limited to prevent the spread of the virus..

These restrictions prevented most Chinese from traveling abroad, limited diplomatic exchanges, and drastically reduced the number of foreigners who came to work and study in China..

People coming to China will still need to test negative for the virus 48 hours before departure and passengers will be required to wear protective masks on board, health commission says in announcement.

At the same time, the issue of granting permission for Chinese citizens to leave the country is still open..

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In early December, after a wave of protests, China announced the lifting of some of its strictest restrictions against COVID-19..

In particular, patients with mild symptoms with COVID have been able to isolate at home, the need to present everywhere tests for COVID-19, made no more than 48 hours before presentation, has been eliminated, and quarantine zones are limited to floors and houses, and not entire areas and neighborhoods..

China's abrupt lifting of tough COVID-19 restrictions could lead to an explosion in cases and more than a million deaths by 2023, according to new projections from the American Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)..