China plans to keep pandemic border restrictions in place for at least another year amid fears over the emergence of new variants and a calendar of sensitive events, Reuters quoted a Wall Street Journal report as saying.
The provisional timeline for reopening of the borders for the second half of 2022 was set during a meeting of China's cabinet in mid-May, the report added.
China sharply reduced transport links with other countries as the coronavirus, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, spread around the world last year.
