World : China suspends three inbound flights over COVID-19 cases

08:17 AM BEIJING, Dec 16 — China’s civil aviation regulator announced on Tuesday the suspension for one week of three inbound flights after several passengers tested positive for COVID-19 on recent flights, reports Xinhua news agency. A total of five passengers tested positive on Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa-Chengdu flight ET636 on Dec 3. Eight tested positive on Russia’s Ikar Airlines Moscow-Zhengzhou flight EO429 on the same day, while six tested positives on Swiss International Air Lines Zurich-Shanghai flight LX188 on Dec 7, said the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). bootstrap slideshow The suspension of the Ethiopian Airlines flight and…