Passengers wait at Beijing Daxing International Airport on January 17, 2023. In the first quarter, the civil aviation situation continued to improve, with the scale of domestic air passenger traffic recovering to about 90 percent of the level before the epidemic, Li Yong, deputy director of the Aviation Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at a regular press conference on April 18, 2023. Photo: cnsphoto

 
Travelers entering China will not need to provide a COVID-19 nucleic acid test result starting from April 29, with only an antigen test result taken within 48 hours before boarding a flight suggested, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

According to ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, airlines will no longer check the results of nucleic acid tests from April 29 with the aim to further facilitate personnel exchanges moving in and out China.

Since China announced the downgrade of the management of COVID-19 from Class A to Class B from January 8, quarantine requirements were removed for people entering the country. Inbound travelers have still been required to present negative nucleic acid test results acquired within 48 hours before departure.

Mao said China will continue to optimize its policies based on epidemic situations to better guarantee the safe and orderly travel of both Chinese and foreign personnel.