Hong Kong bans passenger flights from the UK to curb COVID-19

HONG KONG, June 28 (Reuters) – Hong Kong will ban all passenger flights from Britain from Thursday. To reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Delta, the government said on Monday.

The UK will be listed as very high risk. And those who stay in the country for more than two hours will not be able to board a passenger plane bound for Hong Kong.

This is the second time Hong Kong has banned people from entering Britain. After the ban, effective from December 2020 to May

The government said the ban was caused by “The epidemic situation in the UK and the delta virus epidemic This includes cases with the L452R mutant virus detected by tests from people arriving from the UK.”

Parents in Hong Kong with children In the UK the reaction was shocking. They complain that they paid a lot to comply with COVID-19 testing rules, but now their children are stuck.

Hong Kong has already banned travelers from Indonesia, India, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines.

China’s special administrative region has seen more than 11,900 cases and 211 deaths due to COVID-19. Most of the city’s cases over the past month have been brought in.

Reporting by Meg Shen; Edited by Toby Chopra

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