Hong Kong extends ban on flights from eight countries, including Pakistan

HONG KONG: Hong Kong extended a ban on incoming flights from eight countries, including Pakistan, and imposed one on Nepal until March 4, with the government citing concerns over a growing Covid-19 outbreak.

The other countries are the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, France, India and the Philippines.

Flights to Hong Kong are down 90 percent and hardly any are allowed to transit as the financial hub isolates itself from the world in the hope it can contain a coronavirus outbreak, even though new infections are overwhelmingly local transmissions.