According to a press release issued by the Department of Health’s Centre for Health Protection today, Singapore Airlines budget carrier Scoot will receive a ban of bringing passengers into Hong Kong from Friday the 16th of April and for 2 weeks.
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Starting from April 14, the Government began implementing the tightened commercial passenger flight suspension mechanism to address the risk of importation of mutant strain of the virus from very high-risk places. The Government also announced the plan to shorten the quarantine period for fully vaccinated persons arriving from non-very high-risk overseas places on the basis of the “vaccine bubble”.
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Emirates has posted the following to their website:
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As per the latest authority directive in Hong Kong, customers holding tickets on flight EK 384 with final destination to Hong Kong from 13‑26 April 2021, will not be accepted for travel at their point of origin. However customers traveling to Bangkok as the final destination will be accepted for travel.
Affected customers should contact their travel agent or Emirates contact centre for rebooking options.
Flights from Hong Kong:
Customers booked to travel on flight EK 385 from Hong Kong during this period will be accepted for travel.
Emirates regrets any inconvenience caused. To receive update notifications, customers are requested to ensure their contact details are correct by visiting Manage Your Booking.
Yesterday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced the Hong Kong governments 3-step plan on lifting the restrictions on restaurants and bars in Hong Kong. The new measures are expected to come in force on April 29th, and then in stages after that.
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Local authorities in Hong Kong has announced that Singapore Airlines will be banned from bringing passenger in to Hong Kong for 2 weeks until April 16th, 2021.
The ban was places after one passenger who arrived in Hong Kong on Singapore Airlines flight SQ882 on Wednesday was confirmed to be infected by COVID-19, while 3 other passengers failed to comply with the requirements specified under the Prevention and Control of Disease (Regulation of Cross-boundary Conveyances and Travellers) Regulation, according to a press release issued by the Department of Healts on Friday afternoon.
The Hong Kong government has released the latest list of approved quarantine hotels for everyone arriving in Hong Kong who has to undergo mandatory quarantine.
The list features 30 hotels, and there is only one new hotel this cycle, the ‘Jen by Shangri-La’, the remaining 29 hotels were all part of the 2nd cycle hotels also.
The full list can be found here
Emirates resumed today daily Airbus A380 flights between Dubai and Hong Kong (via Bangkok.) This service was suspended probably about a year ago, not too long after the COVID-19 outbreak. Emirates is now the first operator to resume regular A380 flights to Hong Kong.
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