By Alasdair Pal
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia&nbsp;will drop the requirement for&nbsp;travellers&nbsp;arriving&nbsp;from&nbsp;China&nbsp;to test for&nbsp;COVID-19 before departure&nbsp;from&nbsp;midnight on March 11, the country's health minister said in a statement on Thursday.
The measures also apply to&nbsp;travellers&nbsp;from&nbsp;Hong Kong and Macau.
&ldquo;This is a sensible, measured decision based on decreasing&nbsp;COVID-19 case numbers in&nbsp;China, regular data updates&nbsp;from&nbsp;China&nbsp;on case numbers, and the fact that we have strengthened our capacity to detect and respond to emerging variants of concern within&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;of international origin,&rdquo; Health Minister Mark Butler said.
Several other countries that implemented similar measures such as the United States, South Korea and Japan have recently either repealed their arrangements or announced an intention to repeal them, he added.
(Reporting by Alasdair Pal in Sydney; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

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