china has reopened its borders to international visitors for the first time since the start of the pandemic. people entering the country will no longer need to quarantine but will need to provide proof of a negative covid test, and chinese citizens are once again allowed to go overseas. there have been emotional reunions at airports and the mainland s border with hong kong. this latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions coincides with the country s busiest travel season marking the lunar new year. our correspondent, martin yip, sent us this report. time to go home, finally. here at the hong kong checkpoint, travellers came streaming on again this sunday morning heading for the western province. this is in mainland china. the crowd is much smaller in size than before, but still lively after almost three years of covid restrictions. even though the risk of catching covid is still high. translation: i m pretty excited.
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will prevent you from catching covid, and that it will prevent you from spreading covid. the fact that this is even a question at this point whether or not to lift this dod mandate and that secretary austin is opposing it is just absolute madness. speak of the fact you ve got people like adam smith saying we won t even consider reinstating those kicked out under this crazy policy because people have to follow orders. it should be no question that this mandate should be lifted and those who are kicked out under this wrong-headed decision should be reinstated with back pay. brian: listen, you want to do this and lessen the symptoms and some of the other things if there is a shot out there that worked, the american shot, i get it. certain the chinese shot. but if you get the original shot, four variants in from that shot, it s totally ineffective. so what are you saying? listen to the numbers. army, 15,000 soldiers short. national guard, loss of 7500,
i ve done so many things right nothing comes to mind, because i can never admit a mistake. the b-roll at the top of the segment, a guy with a mask, behind a plastic divider, he s probably had covid a dozen times. i don t mind that we re suggesting that we bring the masks back, i don t like the mandate. that s my problem. newsom is in a tough spot, because if l.a. county officially brings back the mandate, what s he going to do? that s not going to look good for gavin newsom. if he s still following the science to mask mandates, that s bad. if 8-10 cdc workers are working from home, quarantining, quadruple boosted, they re supposed to know about being healthy, this isn t about catching covid, they just want to watch tv all day. geraldo, they said masking, and moved beyond covid.