A screen showing Lufthansa flight LH 342 to Tianjin, China (the first post-lockdown flight departing Europe for China) is pictured at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. A first mass flight carrying Europeans to China following weeks of lockdown departed Germany's biggest hub Frankfurt late Friday, carrying around 200 workers and their families. - AFP
BEIJING: A Lufthansa plane carrying around 200 mainly German workers landed in China on Saturday (May 30), marking the first return of Europeans since the country suspended visas over the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pabdemic.
China drastically cut international flight routes in late March and imposed a entry ban on most foreigners -- including those with valid residence visas.
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