SEOUL — As China lifted controls on outbound travel Sunday, Asia braced for the impact of potentially millions of tourists from a country racked by a surge of COVID-19 arriving at their borders.
Some are already expressing serious concerns about the situation in China – and of potential new COVID strains that could be mutating within the vast Petri dish of the world’s largest population.
But Dr. Jerome Kim, director general of the Seoul-based International Vaccine Institute, has few words of praise for the Biden administration, either. Where once a U.S. government stepped up to confront the global HIV crisis, the U.