China to keep COVID-19 border restrictions for another year - WSJ

FILE PHOTO: A police officer directs vehicles at a toll station of an expressway after travel restrictions to leave Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, were lifted, April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

China is planning to keep its pandemic border restrictions in place for at least another year over worries of emergence of new variants and a calendar of sensitive events, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter

The provisional timeline of the second half of 2022 was set during a mid-May meeting of the country's cabinet, or State Council, the WSJ reported citing a person familiar with the matter.

(Reporting by Ann Maria Shibu in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)