China’s COVID-19-Hit Shenzhen Suspends Direct Flights to Beijing

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China Reuters Jun 23, 2021 Share Facebook Twitter Copy Link Comments Passengers wait for a flight at Daxing Airport in Beijing, China, on Feb. 8, 2021. (Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images) 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...