Hong Kong bans Air India flights for fifth time after few passengers test COVID-19 positive
The earlier bans on the airline’s Delhi-Hong Kong flights had been from August 18 to August 31, September 20 to October 3 and October 17 to October 30, and on its Mumbai-Hong Kong flights throughout October 28-November 10.
Passengers from India can arrive in Hong Kong provided that they’ve a COVID-19 detrimental certificates from a test performed inside 72 hours previous to the journey, based on guidelines issued by the Hong Kong authorities in July.
Moreover, all worldwide passengers are required to bear a post-flight COVID-19 test on the Hong Kong airport.
Besides India, a pre-flight COVID-19 detrimental certificates is necessary for all passengers from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, the UK and the US, based on the Hong Kong authorities’s guidelines.
An airline working a flight to Hong Kong from these nations has to submit a type earlier than departure, stating that every one passengers onboard have COVID-19 detrimental certificates.
“A few passengers on a Delhi-Hong Kong flight of Air India earlier this week examined positive for COVID-19 post-arrival,” the senior authorities official famous.
“Consequently, the airline’s Delhi-Hong Kong flights have been banned till December 3,” the official added.
Scheduled worldwide passenger flights proceed to stay suspended in India since March 23 as a result of pandemic.
However, the Indian airways have been permitted to function particular worldwide flights below the Vande Bharat Mission since May this yr and below the bilateral air bubble pacts since July.
Under a bilateral air bubble pact, the airways of each nations can function worldwide flights with sure restrictions. India has fashioned such pacts with roughly 20 nations.
