Ethiopian Airlines’ flight to Shanghai Flight ET684 will be grounded for five weeks!
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China’s civil aviation regulator issued its harshest flight suspension order since the start of the pandemic to Ethiopian Airlines’ flight from Addis Ababa to Shanghai.
Flight ET684 will be grounded for five weeks from October 26 after over a dozen passengers tested positive for COVID-19 this month, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Tuesday.
Five passengers on the flight tested positive on arrival at the Pudong airport on October 6, while an additional 10 travelers on the same flight tested positive on October 13, said the CAAC. The infected passengers were quarantined upon arrival at the Pudong airport.
The operation of the flight was earlier suspended for a week from August 31 after six passengers tested positive for COVID-19.
According to CAAC policies, if the number of passengers testing positive reaches five, the airline’s flights will be suspended for a week. The suspension will last for four weeks if the number of passengers testing positive reaches 10.
If all inbound passengers on an airline test negative for the novel coronavirus for three weeks in a row, the operating airline will be allowed to increase its flights to two per week.
Over a dozen flights, including those with Aeroflot, China Eastern, Etihad, Juneyao and Sir Lanka, have been suspended since the mechanism was first introduced in June.
The city reported five new imported coronavirus cases on Monday, while two patients were discharged from hospital upon recovery, said the Shanghai Health Commission on Tuesday morning.
So far, of all the 753 imported cases, 678 have been discharged upon recovery and 75 are still hospitalised. Six imported suspected cases are undergoing test.
source:https://www.shine.cn
