HONG KONG, Jan. 14 (BNA) Hong Kong International Airport said on Friday it would ban passengers from more than 150 countries and territories from transiting in the city for a month, as it sought to stop transmission of the highly contagious Omicron infection from the coronavirus, the AP said.
Passengers who have stayed at more than 150 places deemed “high risk” in the past 21 days, including the United States and Britain, will be banned from transiting in Hong Kong from January 16 to February 15, according to a notice in the British newspaper The Guardian. an airport.
The ban comes as the city battles an omicron outbreak, with most cases traced back to two Cathay Pacific crew members who violated isolation rules and dined at restaurants and bars in the city before testing positive.
More than 50 local infections have been reported in the community since the end of 2021. Prior to that, Hong Kong had spent three months without any community transmission and was in talks with the mainland to resume quarantine-free travel with the rest of China.
Hong Kong last week imposed a two-week ban on flights from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Britain, India, Pakistan and the Philippines.
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