Current China Entry policy
#1623
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: SF Bay Area
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Posts: 6,650
What vaccine? My friend in SH said she still can't get Pfizer, which is why she isn't interested in being vaccinated. If they're willing to throw every last tool they have at trying to stop this virus, why don't they throw the best vaccines at it too?
#1624
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,206
Sinopharm and Sinovac seem to do ok against death from Covid which is the main goal.
#1625
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SIN (with a bit of ZRH sprinkled in)
Posts: 9,448
I thought China only allowed for pax to take direct flights, though?
I'm really feeling sorry for those stranded in ZRH. At least there is a Non-Schengen transit hotel, albeit a basic one.
#1626
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SIN (with a bit of ZRH sprinkled in)
Posts: 9,448
If you can choose between some reasonable and zero protection, most people will take the reasonable protection. If your friend wants "the best or nothing", good luck to her. I won't have pity with people with her attitude.
#1627
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 221
Not sure about getting vaccinated, but my 92-year-old grandmother (who worked for Xinhua Bookstore) says they were withholding her retirement pensions and other social/government benefits if she didn't get tested.
#1629
Ambassador, Hong Kong and Macau
Join Date: May 2009
Location: HKG
Programs: Non-top tier Asia Miles member
Posts: 19,773
"China has recently pivoted to a more targeted approach to dealing with flareups as part of President Xi Jinping's dual goals of seeking to eliminate the virus while minimizing the economic and social impacts of the Covid Zero strategy. But the rapid rise in cases in Shanghai underscores the limitations of such measures in the face of highly transmissible omicron train...
...The financial hub reported about 3,500 infections Sunday, according to a CCTV report, overtaking Jilin as the nation's biggest Covid hot spot."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-for-march-26
...The financial hub reported about 3,500 infections Sunday, according to a CCTV report, overtaking Jilin as the nation's biggest Covid hot spot."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-for-march-26
#1630
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 615
China is acting unbelievably foolish in response to the Omnicron strain of the virus. In the end the CCP will lose against Omnicron and looking at news reports, it looks like Chinese people will suffer.
#1631
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 17
On FlightAware page for PVG arrival/departure flight status, there are many reductions in passenger flights
Last edited by joesk; Mar 29, 2022 at 6:35 am
#1632
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: PEK
Programs: A3*G, UA Gold EY Silver
Posts: 8,949
"Only 19.7 per cent of people aged over 80 in China have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster as of Mar 17, and just 50.7 per cent of that age group have completed their primary vaccinations"
My understanding is that initially, they were not letting older people use the Chinese vaccines, because they were not tested on the older population. This led to older people not wishing to be vaccinated.
#1633
Suspended
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: CA, FL, and China.
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Posts: 704
China also won’t let you switch vaccine. If you got one of the even more useless non approved ones even over a year ago, you can’t even switch to the slightly less useless sinovac or sinopharm vaccines. And I don’t think they’ve really even pushed for boosters regardless.
I suspect china’s population is about as vulnerable as you could possibly be to covid in 2022.
I suspect china’s population is about as vulnerable as you could possibly be to covid in 2022.
#1634
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: SF Bay Area
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Posts: 6,650
Well if that's the case, my friend has an even better reason to be a vaccine holdout. She's either going to get Pfizer in SH or she's going to leave the PRC to get Pfizer.
#1635
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: BOS, PVG
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Posts: 10,000
My friend booked April 7 PVG-SFO, and April 11 as backup. Let's see how things go.