By Contributor - December 22, 2020
Fears over a more infectious variant of Covid-19 have prompted authorities to cut key air links with Britain.
The skyline of London’s Canary Wharf district, as seen from Greenwich. (Photo: Fas Khan/Unsplash)
Hong Kong’s Health Secretary Sophia Chan announced yesterday that all flights to and from the United Kingdom were being suspended in response to the emergence of a more virulent strain of Covid-19 in London and southeast England, which British authorities say could be up to 70 percent more infectious. Chan also ordered recent returnees from the U.K. who are undergoing mandatory two-week quarantine inside a hotel to spend another seven days at home in self-isolation, until they test negative for the virus.