According to government officials, the US government is concerned about the situation in China and has questioned the data the country is reporting on the spread of the virus.
Japan requires travelers from China to be able to submit a negative corona test and Malaysia has also taken measures to prevent Covid-19 from entering the country in this way. The US is considering taking similar steps, the officials said.
Violent protests in China have pushed aside the strict zero-covid policy, which required entire cities to be isolated in case of infections. As a result, the number of infections in the country has increased enormously in recent weeks. According to an estimate by the Chinese authorities a few days ago, an average of 37 million corona cases are added every day. This makes the current Chinese corona outbreak the largest in the world. In the first 20 days of December, 248 million people were infected with the virus, which is 18 percent of the Chinese population.