{"id":117316,"date":"2021-06-28T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=117316"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:00:08","slug":"hong-kong-to-ban-passenger-flights-from-uk-to-curb-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/hong-kong-to-ban-passenger-flights-from-uk-to-curb-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to ban passenger flights from UK to curb virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hong Kong said in a statement Monday that the U.K. has been classified as &quot;extremely high risk.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Under the classification, people who have stayed in the U.K. for more than two hours will be restricted from boarding passenger flights to Hong Kong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>It said in a statement Monday that the U.K. has been classified as &quot;extremely high risk&quot; because of the &quot;recent rebound of the epidemic situation in the U.K. and the widespread delta variant virus strain there.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Under the classification, people who have stayed in the U.K. for more than two hours will be restricted from boarding passenger flights to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time that the Hong Kong government has banned flights from the U.K., following a restriction imposed last December.<\/p>\n<p>The ban comes amid heightened tensions between the U.K. and China over semi-autonomous Hong Kong, which was a British colony until it was handed over to China in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. has criticized China for imposing a national security law on Hong Kong and tightening control over its media, saying Beijing is undermining the city&#x27;s autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>The flight ban was triggered by a policy put in place by the government to prevent coronavirus variants from spreading in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>A suspension of passenger flights is imposed if five or more passengers arriving from one place test positive on arrival for a particular coronavirus variant, or a relevant virus mutation within a seven-day period.<\/p>\n<p>A ban is is also triggered if 10 or more passengers from one place are confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus via any tests, including tests conducted during quarantine, within a seven-day period.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. flight ban comes as Hong Kong is looking to relax quarantine measures for most other countries, including the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Several other countries, including the Philippines and Indonesia, also face flight bans to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/28\/hong-kong-to-ban-passenger-flights-from-uk-to-curb-virus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong said in a statement Monday that the U.K. has been classified as &quot;extremely high risk.&quot; 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