Hundreds of flights cancelled as Shanghai tackles COVID-19 outbreak


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On Tuesday, figures from data services firm VariFlight showed that more than 500 flights out of Pudong Airport had been called off - nearly half the day's scheduled flights. Almost half of scheduled inbound flights were also cancelled. More than 17,700 people had been swabbed by Monday morning in the drive to test airport cargo staff, state news agency Xinhua reported. Advertisement Nearly half of all scheduled flights were also cancelled at Tianjin international airport, a northern port city also testing around 2.6 million people to try and bring a local cluster under control. Tianjin reported five local cases on...