Originally Posted by
moondog
Why on earth would they shut down HK flights before flights from other countries? HK is definitely more important than NY or London for most companies here.
HK was reporting ~55k cases/day recently. HK has a population that is 44x less than that of the US. In other words, HK's per capita case rate was equivalent to ~2.4M cases/day in the US -- a milestone that the US has never actually reached. And pretty much all flights from the US were shut down during the big omicron wave in December/January. So if they haven't shut down HK flights, that suggests that something other than keeping SARS-CoV-2 out is motivating this policy.