COVID-19: China hits back at travel restrictions, EU offers free vaccines amid surge in cases

Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning criticized growing international travel entry restrictions imposed on travellers from China, saying that the policies “lack scientific basis” and that Beijing was “firmly opposed to attempts to manipulate the epidemic prevention and control measures for political purposes.”

Amid a surge in COVID-19 infections following Beijing's relaxation of its "zero-COVID" policies, the European Union (EU) has offered free vaccines to China, EU Commission spokesperson Tim Mcphie said in a separate news conference.

Asked whether Beijing would accept the EU offer during a press conference in Beijing, Ning responded by sidestepping a direct reply, saying that China's vaccination rate and treatment capacity continued to rise and its supplies were "adequate."

China has so far insisted on using only Chinese-made vaccines — which are of the inactivated virus type and not based on the Western mRNA technology — for its own population. EU government representatives are expected to meet again on Wednesday to weigh a coordinated approach by the bloc to travellers from China.

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