Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Mar 4
th, 2021 at 1:33pm:
No Voo ............... Not Young Joey ( Not Traveling to China )
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-anal-factbox-idUSKBN..." Early this week, Tokyo complained about the tests on some Japanese travellers to China, saying they had caused “great psychological pain”.
South Korean visitors can now submit stool samples instead of “Chinese authorities taking them directly”, Choi Young-Sam, a spokesman of the South Korean foreign ministry, said on Tuesday.
Last month, U.S. media outlet Vice cited a State Department official as saying U.S. diplomats had been subjected to the tests. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said that to his knowledge, such tests had not been required of U.S. diplomats in China.
In a statement to Reuters on Thursday, the ministry said the virus prevention and control measures China was taking were based on science.
Anal swab tests are not exclusive to foreign visitors. During China’s last major round of infections in January, some cities performed them on unspecified segments of the local population."