The Government will tighten the testing and isolation arrangements for air crew members, sea crew members of goods vessels entering Hong Kong for cargo operations and other exempted people from February 20.
It is considered necessary to further tighten the epidemic control measures on all inbound travellers comprehensively based on the latest COVID-19 prevention risk assessment.
Keep on reading!The Hong Kong Government has announced that effective midnight tonight they are putting around 150 buildings in the Yau Tsim Mong district under lockdown.
Last month Hong Kong Government decided to ban entry of anyone to Hong Kong who had been in the UK or South Africa in the last 21 days, and 2 days ago they announced that they are adding Brazil and Ireland to that list. This is in order to try to prevent any spread of a new, more virulent strain of the coronavirus. The ban remains in force until further notice.
The numbers for November 2020 seems to indicate an increase in traffic compared to previous months, although again way down compared to a year ago.
Emirates is again banned from bringing passengers to Hong Kong for two weeks from January 9th to 22nd. There are many reasons why airlines gets banned for 2 weeks into Hong Kong, and it is not yet confirmed what the specific reason is this time,
Emirates seems to still be operating their flights from Dubai via Bangkok to Hong Kong in this period as cargo only flights, but at least that means passengers leaving Hong Kong for Dubai will still be able to travel.
Cathay Pacific already last week canceled their flights from the UK to Hong Kong for 2 weeks due to the new strain of the Coronavirus, and Hong Kong Governments ban on anyone who have been in the UK for more than 2 hours in the last 3 weeks to enter Hong Kong.
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The social distancing measures currently in place will be maintained for another two weeks until January 20, Secretary for Food & Health Prof Sophia Chan said today.
Announcing the Government’s decision at a press briefing yesterday afternoon, Prof Chan noted the measures could not be relaxed given the global COVID-19 pandemic and local situation.
Keep on reading!After landing in Cebu the passengers bound for Angeles/Clark were allowed to remain onboards, whereas the passengers bound for Cebu disembarked. As soon as they were off the plane, a cleaning crew came on board, and did a (very quick) clean of the empty seats.
In my effort to catch up, it is now time for the October numbers to be shared as well. I do expect that those as well are severely down from last year, but I also believe there will be a slight increase from September again.
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As with all previous months this year, the numbers for Hong Kong air traffic is severely down from August 2019.
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