Coronavirus: Hong Kong suspends Air Canada flights from Vancouver for two weeks; city confirms nine imported cases


Hong Kong authorities confirmed nine imported Covid-19 cases on Friday, and suspended Air Canada passenger flights from Vancouver for two weeks.

The flight suspension, which will run from October 16 to 29, was announced the same day that provisional data released by the Hong Kong Tourism Board revealed the city’s inbound arrivals had plummeted by 98.2 per cent year on year, to 63,105, in the first nine months of 2021.

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