EU nations set to impose Covid travel restrictions on passengers from China

The EU seems bent on taking some sort of joint action to ensure incoming passengers from China do not transmit any potential new variants to the continent

Passengers arriving from China wait in front of a Covid-19 testing area at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris (Aurelien Morissard/AP)

European Union nations are fine-tuning a coordinated response to China’s Covid-19 crisis and look set to impose travel restrictions that would upset both Beijing and the global airline industry.

China has vehemently rejected travel restrictions that some EU nations have started to introduce and has warned of “counter-measures” if such actions should be expanded in coming days.