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A growing number of countries around the world are demanding visitors from China take COVID-19 tests days before it drops border controls and ushers in a much-anticipated return to travel for a population largely stuck at home for the past three years.  Starting Sunday, China will end mandatory quarantines for inbound travelers, the latest dismantling of its "zero Covid" regime that began last month after historic protests against a stifling series of mass lockdowns. But the abrupt changes have exposed many of China's 1.4 billion people to the virus for the first time, sparking a wave of infections that is overwhelming some hospitals, emptying pharmacy shelves of medicines and sparking international concern.  Greece, Germany, and Sweden joined more than a dozen countries on Thursday in demanding Covid testing from Chinese travelers, as the World Health Organization said China's official virus data was underreporting the true extent of its outbreak.  Chinese officials...