{"id":51589,"date":"2022-12-31T19:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/31\/england-covid-test-travellers-from-china"},"modified":"2022-12-31T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T10:42:47","slug":"covid-test-for-travellers-from-china-could-have-been-avoided-says-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51589","title":{"rendered":"Covid test for travellers from China could have been avoided, says MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Brine said the restriction on people arriving from China to England was only required because Beijing was not \u2018upfront\u2019 about its data<\/p>\n<p>The requirement for travellers from China to England to provide a negative Covid test before departure could have been avoided if Beijing was \u201cupfront\u201d about its data, the chair of the Commons health committee has said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/30\/rishi-sunak-dithering-over-covid-testing-of-passengers-from-china\">Rishi Sunak announced a major U-turn<\/a> on Friday by imposing checks on travellers from China from 5 January, after criticism from a growing number of Conservative MPs over his \u201cdithering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/31\/england-covid-test-travellers-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Brine said the restriction on people arriving from China to England was only required because Beijing was not \u2018upfront\u2019 about its dataThe requirement for travellers from China to England to provide a negative Covid test before departure could hav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3506,"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":[50,1066,914,4,1158,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","category-travel","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\/51589","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\/3506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51589\/revisions\/51590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}