A major international airport in southern China near Hong Kong canceled more than 400 flights on Friday after a staff member at a restaurant inside …
A major international airport in southern China near Hong Kong canceled more than 400 flights on Friday after a staff member at a restaurant inside the airport tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported. Canceled arriving and departing flights at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Guangdong province on June 18 “accounted for around 40 percent of the total number of flights at the airport,” the Global Times reported, citing data from the Chinese flight information platformVariFlight. The canceled flights included “cancellations on Friday and cancellations in advance.” “According to a notice issued by the Shenzhen airport epidemic prevention and control office obtained by the Global Times, a staff [member] at a restaurant in the airport tested positive for the virus, despite the person being vaccinated twice in January and February,” the newspaper reported. “The staff [member] previously tested negative on June 1, 7, 9 and 15.
