Passengers at Beijing Capital AirportBEJING, Mar 15 some international flights from Shanghai to other cities in the country due to a new outbreak of COVID-19, the Civil Aviation Authority of China said on Tuesday. Shanghai, like many other cities in China, has experienced a rapidly growing number of coronavirus infections in recent weeks, and in order to , in order to ease the burden on the city in the field of epidemic prevention and control, it was decided to redirect some international passenger flights between March 21 and May 1 to other cities.
China extended the ban on Aeroflot flights from Moscow to ShanghaiRoute adjustments will affect 106 flights to 22 destinations of five Chinese airlines, including Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Sh anghai Airlines and Spring Airlines. Flights will be transferred from Pudong International Airport to airports located in Chengdu, Dalian, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Kunming, Nanchang, Ningbo, Xiamen, Taiyuan, Chongqing and other cities. Throughout the pandemic, Shanghai authorities coped quite effectively with a large flow of people and goods entering the country from abroad, provided strict quarantine, and quickly dealt with them in the event of small local outbreaks. In total, 4.8 thousand cases of COVID-19 were detected in the city during the pandemic, 12 local cases, 9 imported and 133 asymptomatic cases were registered over the past day. Currently, 671 patients with coronavirus are being treated in city hospitals.
