The Arrivals Hall of Hong Kong International Airport.
Photographer: Justin Chin / Bloomberg
Photographer: Justin Chin / Bloomberg
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Hong Kong will ban flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines from April 20 to April 14, the government said in a statement on Sunday.
A power outage arrangement is being triggered in each of the countries because there were five or more arrivals with the N501Y mutant coronavirus strain within seven days, the government said. Under the mechanism, the three countries will be designated as ‘extremely high risk’.
This comes after Hong Kong reported the first two cases of virus variants in the community over the weekend.
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