Hong Kong bars flights from India till May 3
Saurabh.Sinha@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:19.04.2021
Hong Kong has barred passenger flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for 14 days from April 20 over Covid-19 fears. Passengers who have stayed in these places for more than two hours to board a transit flight to Hong Kong have also been barred for 14 days.
These three countries “will at the same time be specified as extremely high-risk (Covid) specified places… so as to restrict persons who have stayed in these places from boarding for Hong Kong,” a government statement said late on Sunday night.
Hong Kong has a “placespecific” mechanism under which if five or more passengers from a place test positive on flights from there — irrespective of airline — in a seven-day period, that place will have passenger flights barred to land in the country for 14 days.
Hong Kong and China do not have an air bubble with India.
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