Team News Riveting
China Thursday opened Beijing’s main international airport and allowed the international flights from a limited number of countries considered at low risk of coronavirus infection to operate.
The Passengers flying in from Cambodia, Greece, Denmark, Thailand, Pakistan, Austria, Canada and Sweden were confirmed negative in the coronavirus test before boarding.
The Chinese authorities said that passenger arrivals would be limited to roughly 500 per day during a trial period. They would undergo additional testing for the virus on arrival, followed by two weeks of quarantine.
The first flight under the arrangement, Air China Flight 746, arrived from Pnom Penh, Cambodia today morning.
Beginning in March, all international flights to Beijing had been redirected to a dozen other cities where passengers were tested and processed before being allowed to travel on to the Chinese capital.
China has gone weeks without new cases of local infection and the 11 new cases recorded Thursday were all imported.
Beijing’s last local outbreak in July was linked to a wholesale food market, and the city’s customs department announced Wednesday it would test all imported frozen foods, along with other goods arriving from countries considered to be at high risk.
