{"id":51454,"date":"2022-12-27T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T07:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/27\/rush-to-book-flights-as-china-eases-covid-rules-and-borders-set-to-open"},"modified":"2022-12-28T00:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T15:33:04","slug":"rush-to-book-flights-as-china-eases-covid-rules-and-borders-set-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51454","title":{"rendered":"Rush to book flights as China scraps Covid travel restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China to lift quarantine  requirement for inbound travellers and resume issuing visas for overseas travel from 8 January<\/p>\n<p>Chinese people have rushed to book overseas travel as authorities scrapped the last big plank of the country\u2019s zero-Covid policy despite reports of hospitals being overwhelmed nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/26\/china-starts-to-drop-quarantine-requirement-for-overseas-passengers\">health authorities announced<\/a> they would no longer require inbound travellers to go into quarantine, then on Tuesday the immigration authority said it would resume issuing visas for mainland residents to travel overseas from 8 January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/27\/rush-to-book-flights-as-china-eases-covid-rules-and-borders-set-to-open\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China to lift quarantine  requirement for inbound travellers and resume issuing visas for overseas travel from 8 JanuaryChinese people have rushed to book overseas travel as authorities scrapped the last big plank of the country\u2019s zero-Covid policy des&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51454\/revisions\/51474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}