China will drop a requirement for inbound travellers to take COVID-19 PCR tests starting from Jan 8, 2023, customs authorities said on Wednesday.
PCR checks for imported chilled and frozen foods will also be dropped, China's General Administration of Customs said.
China's management of COVID-19 is set to be downgraded to the less strict Category B from the top-level Category A from Jan. 8, the health authority said on Monday.
Seven dead, 82 missing in Indonesian landslide
Seven people have died and 82 are missing after a landslide hit in Indonesia's West Java province, Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Saturday, amid reports of heavy rain in the area.
Bombing at Pakistan wedding kills 7, police say
The death toll from a bombing at a wedding near the Afghan border rose to seven on Saturday, police said, as Pakistan struggles to deal with a rising wave of attacks.
Australian boy dies after shark attack in Sydney Harbour
An Australian boy has died in the hospital after being bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour, his family said on Saturday after a series of shark attacks along the country's east coast.
One dead as Ukraine's two largest cities under Russian attack
Russia has attacked Ukraine's two largest cities Kyiv and Kharkiv early on Saturday, officials said, with one person killed and at least 15 injured.
US withdraws from World Health Organisation
The US has officially left the World Health Organisation (WHO) after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the UN health agency's management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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