The World - News from May 3, 1987
Chinese health authorities began implementing new regulations to test foreigners coming to live in China for the AIDS virus and other contagious diseases. Tourists visiting China on a short-term basis are not to be tested under the new regulations. But foreigners who plan to live, work or study in China for a year or more must acquire a physician’s certificate before going there to show that they have taken a test and are free of the virus that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.
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