Int’l airlines resuming flights to China amid relaxed COVID-19 restrictions on aviation

International airlines are resuming flights to the Chinese mainland as China has eased its COVID-19 restrictions on aviation. On Wednesday, German airline Lufthansa resumed scheduled flights between Frankfurt and Shanghai for once a week, the first of its kind operated months after the outbreak of the pandemic. According to media reports, it expects to further restart the Austria- and Switzerland-China flights in the weeks and months ahead. In line with the improvement in the domestic coronavirus situation, China in early June loosened its aviation restrictions from the “Five Ones” policy introduced at the end of March in an effort against…