Hong Kong Bans Flights from 8 countries 8 Jan 2022
Jan 5, 2022, 10:54 am
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Hong Kong Bans Flights from 8 countries 8 Jan 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-ko...le-11641384074
Oh boy...
Hong Kong is banning passenger flights from eight countries, including the U.S., for two weeks, closing bars and banning evening dine-in after the city’s first community Omicron infections punctured one of the world’s strictest and most effective border controls.
“We’re facing a very dire situation, that’s why we have to take very decisive measures,” Mrs. Lam said Wednesday. “Our strategy is to be fast, harsh and precise—we are hoping the short-term pain will pay off.”
“We’re facing a very dire situation, that’s why we have to take very decisive measures,” Mrs. Lam said Wednesday. “Our strategy is to be fast, harsh and precise—we are hoping the short-term pain will pay off.”
Jan 5, 2022, 4:55 pm
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I was just about to post this as well... here's another article about the same: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/w...g-flights.html
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Jan 5, 2022, 5:03 pm
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Link (reuters)-->Hong Kong bans some inbound flights, tightens COVID-19 curbs
HONG KONG, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Hong Kong announced a two-week ban on incoming flights from eight countries, including the United States and Britain, and tightened restrictions on Wednesday as authorities feared a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections.
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Incoming flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Britain and the United States, including interchanges, would be banned from Jan. 8 to Jan 21, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told reporters.
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Incoming flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Britain and the United States, including interchanges, would be banned from Jan. 8 to Jan 21, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told reporters.
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Jan 5, 2022, 7:11 pm
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It is more than banning flights from 8 major countries. It is also banning pax from those countries. Anyone who has staid there in the past 21 days cannot enter HK, even on a transit flight.
Most HK residents and FDH cannot return, as these their major countries of origin.
Most HK residents and FDH cannot return, as these their major countries of origin.
Jan 9, 2022, 7:16 am
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https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/inbound-travel.html
"(9) All passenger flights from these places will be prohibited from landing in Hong Kong, and at the same time, persons who have stayed in these places for more than two hours in the 21-day Period will be restricted from boarding passenger flights for Hong Kong, so as to stop persons from the relevant places from travelling to Hong Kong via transit."
"(9) All passenger flights from these places will be prohibited from landing in Hong Kong, and at the same time, persons who have stayed in these places for more than two hours in the 21-day Period will be restricted from boarding passenger flights for Hong Kong, so as to stop persons from the relevant places from travelling to Hong Kong via transit."
Jan 9, 2022, 3:12 pm
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https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/inbound-travel.html
"(9) All passenger flights from these places will be prohibited from landing in Hong Kong, and at the same time, persons who have stayed in these places for more than two hours in the 21-day Period will be restricted from boarding passenger flights for Hong Kong, so as to stop persons from the relevant places from travelling to Hong Kong via transit."
"(9) All passenger flights from these places will be prohibited from landing in Hong Kong, and at the same time, persons who have stayed in these places for more than two hours in the 21-day Period will be restricted from boarding passenger flights for Hong Kong, so as to stop persons from the relevant places from travelling to Hong Kong via transit."