Koh Samui mayor Ramnet Jaikwang declared today that the island is imposing a 3 week entry ban for the Island, effective until the end of April 2020.
Keep on reading!Koh Samui locking down until the end of the month
Thailand suspends all incoming passenger flights to fight coronavirus
Effective midnight last night (Friday April 03 2020) and for 72 hours Thailand has announced that they are suspending all incoming passenger flights.
Anyone who arrives on a flight that took off before the ban came into force will be allowed to arrive, but will be quarantined for 14 days after arriving in Thailand.
They are also reporting that Phuket Airport will close for 3 weeks, from April 10 to April 30, but his is not yet confirmed.
Confirmed: Hong Kong to temporarily ban all tourists, including transit passengers effective Wednesday March 25
Listening to the ongoing press conference by Mrs Carrie Lam, it is now confirmed that Hong Kong will ban all tourist, including transit passengers, for 2 weeks. In addition, all residents returning to Hong Kong will have to home quarantine for 2 weeks, including travelers coming from Macau and Taiwan.
Rumor: Hong Kong to temporarily ban all tourists, including transit passengers!
According to South China Morning Post , Hong Kong is to ban all tourists, including transit passengers.
Keep on reading!Emirates changes their minds, will now keep a few destinations open
As I wrote about yesterday, Emirates announced that they are suspending all passenger flights effective March 25, 2020.
Emirates is now backtracking on this decision , and will now continue to operate flights to 13 destinations/countries.
Keep on reading!Emirates suspends all passenger flights effective March 25, 2020.
Update: the correct date should be March 25, nor March 23 as originally posted.
Emirates has put the following statement up on Twitter today:
Keep on reading!Cathay Pacific to reduce passenger capacity by 96% in April and May
Cathay has just release the following press statement on their website:
Keep on reading!Hong Kong Express cancels all flights until end of April 2020
Hong Kong Express, Hong Kongs low cost operator who was purchased last year by Cathay Pacific is the first Hong Kong based airline to halt operations amid the COVID19 outbreak.
Keep on reading!Update from AirAsia reference the Covid-19 outbreak.
AirAsia has sent out the following email to their costumers in reference to the Covid-19 outbreak:
Keep on reading!Hong Kong extends code red travel alert, all arrivals from foreign countries to be placed under home quarantine.
It might not come as a surprise to many, and now it has been confirmed. Effective Thursday, March 19th, all travellers arriving in Hong Kong from a foreign country will be placed under home quarantine.
In the last week there has been 50 new cases of COVID19 in Hong Kong, but only 7 of those were locally infected, the rest were imported cases.
The new restrictions will not apply to arrivals from mainland China, Macau or Taiwan.