Covid Rules Cause Four-Mile Traffic Jam for Tibet Tourists


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(Bloomberg) -- Hundreds of vehicles were stuck on a state highway in Tibet after the neighboring province of Yunnan denied entry to people traveling from the Covid hotspot, saying its quarantine system had reached capacity. Police in Tibet’s Markam county issued an urgent notice on Tuesday asking travelers to avoid leaving the region via a highway that leads to Yunnan, as well as another that goes to Sichuan. Quarantine rooms in areas across the provincial borders are full and people had become stranded on the road leading up to the checkpoint. The traffic jam started over the weekend after Deqin...