The Hong Kong authorities has banned passenger flights from India for 14 days beginning Tuesday over fears of the mutant coronavirus. In addition to India, the town administration has additionally barred flights from Pakistan and the Philippines. It additionally mentioned that passengers who’ve stayed in these three nations for greater than two hours in transit for a flight to Hong Kong can’t enter for 14 days.
A spokesman for Hong Kong authorities mentioned: “With confirmed cases involving the N501Y mutant strain detected for the first time in the community in Hong Kong, for prudence’s sake, the Government has applied the criteria of the newly implemented place-specific flight suspension mechanism retrospectively for 14 days on places where there had been imported cases confirmed by arrival tests that carried the N501Y mutant strain. India, Pakistan, and the Philippines all had seven-day cumulative number of relevant cases that reached the relevant criteria in the past 14 days, and the Government will therefore invoke the place-specific flight suspension mechanism for these three places.”
Earlier on Sunday, the administration banned Indian provider Vistara from flying there until May 2 after its flight from Mumbai on April 18 had three passengers who examined constructive upon arrival.