The Spanish consulate in Shanghai is calling on the city’s health authorities to clarify quarantine rules for inbound travellers after a number of people vaccinated for the coronavirus were subjected to several days of hospital tests on arrival.
“In the past few weeks, without any official message from the Chinese authorities, foreign citizens ... that have been vaccinated either with a Chinese or foreign vaccine ... are being put in hospital against their will for three or four days upon arrival in China,” the consulate said in a statement on Thursday.
The German Federal Foreign Office has also updated its travel advice to China, warning that the policy of hospital quarantine for vaccinated inbound arrivals was happening “almost without exception in Shanghai and takes place regardless of whether you have been vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved in Germany or with a Chinese vaccine”.
“People who have already been vaccinated should possibly check whether entry via other airports is an alternative,” the website said.
The Shanghai Health Commission did not respond to a request for comment.
