US demands Covid tests for visitors from China
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Jackie Lannard, and in the early hours of Thursday, |
| 0:08.4 | the 29th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.2 | The United States has become the latest country to impose |
| 0:14.0 | mandatory COVID tests on Chinese tourists. |
| 0:17.0 | After China announced it would reopen its borders next week. |
| 0:20.1 | Police Simbelivia have arrested the opposition leader, |
| 0:22.8 | Luis Fernando Camacho, at his stronghold |
| 0:25.4 | in the Eastern region of Santa Cruz, |
| 0:27.4 | and in his end of the year address, |
| 0:29.8 | President Zelensky has said Ukraine's defiance |
| 0:32.6 | of the Russian invasion has made it a leader of the free world. |
| 0:38.6 | Also in this podcast, our reporter in the Bangladesh capital, |
| 0:42.0 | Daka, on the opening of a new metro |
| 0:44.4 | in one of the world's most crowded cities. |
| 0:46.7 | I was dreaming for a metro. |
| 0:48.2 | Why not a metro in our country? |
| 0:50.0 | Now at least I can go some places within a fixed time. |
| 0:58.2 | The United States is to require arrivals from China |
| 1:01.5 | to show a negative COVID test from the 5th of January. |
| 1:05.4 | It's the latest country to tighten restrictions on Chinese visitors |
| 1:09.1 | because of the explosion of infections |
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