Hong Kong will ban flights from India starting April 20 till May 3, the ban comes just hours after officials confirmed a second local Covid-19 case involving a mutated strain of the virus.
Hong Kong has also banned flights from Pakistan and the Philippines for 14 days starting April 20,
A circuit breaker arrangement is triggered for each of the countries as there had been five or more arrivals with the N501Y mutant coronavirus strain within seven days, the government said. Under the mechanism the three countries will be designated as “extremely high-risk.”
People already in quarantine in Hong Kong from those three nations will be ordered to take a further test on the 26th day after arriving in the city.