China’s COVID-Hit Shenzhen Suspends Direct Flights To Beijing

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China’s COVID-hit Shenzhen have suspended flights to Beijing until July 1. (Representational) Shenzhen, China: Direct flights from the southern city of Shenzhen to Beijing have been suspended until at least July 1, booking apps showed, ahead of celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party’s founding in the capital on that date. China’s most populous province Guangdong is battling a COVID-19 outbreak, with 170 confirmed local cases between May 21 and June 21. No new confirmed local cases were reported for June 22. Of the cases, eight were recorded in Shenzhen, while 146 were reported in the provincial capital Guangzhou, though directÂ...