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On Thursday, Hong Kong’s leader defended her strategy of temporarily blocking flight routes that bring in Coronavirus cases, despite warnings from a top airline industry official that the city had “gone off the map” as an aviation hub. The city’s airport, which was formerly one of the busiest in the world, has been virtually blocked off from the rest of the world throughout the pandemic as Hong Kong adheres to China’s rigorous zero COVID-19 policy. Any airline that brings in three or more infected passengers on a single flight is barred from flying that route for seven days under “circuit...