Hong Kong authorities said today that at least 53 passengers on a flight arriving in Hong Kong from New Delhi, India, have been confirmed to be infected with the disease. Hong Kong has urgently banned passenger flights from India to Hong Kong because of a new wave of cases in the territory.
AFP reports that the passengers arrived in Hong Kong on April 4 on a flight operated by India’s Vistara Airlines. The flight can carry 188 passengers, but Hong Kong authorities have not announced the number of passengers it will carry.
The confirmed cases surfaced gradually during the quarantine period. The daily number of new confirmed cases in Hong Kong since the fourth wave of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was brought under control in January is usually less than the total number of confirmed cases on this flight.
After the first case of the N501Y variant was detected in the Hong Kong community, authorities imposed a two-week ban on all flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines in the early hours of the 20th, classifying the three countries as “extremely high-risk” countries.
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