China Southern Airlines to suspend Dhaka-Guangzhou flight over Covid-19 cases


REUTERS | Published: June 14, 2020 10:19:35 | Updated: June 16, 2020 10:34:15


A China Southern Airlines employee wears a surgical mask as a preventive measure in light of the coronavirus outbreak in China, while he attends a customer behind the counter at Benito Juarez international airport in Mexico City, Mexico, January 28, 2020. — Reuters

A China Southern Airlines flight from Dhaka to Guangzhou will be suspended for four weeks from June 22 due to concerns about Covid-19 infections, China’s aviation regulator said on Sunday.

Seventeen passengers on a June 11 flight from the Bangladeshi capital to the southern Chinese city tested positive for the coronavirus, meeting the conditions for a “circuit breaker” suspension of the service, the Civil Aviation Administration of China in a statement.

China reported 19 new confirmed cases involving travellers from overseas for June 13, with 17 of them arriving in Guangdong province.

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