HK sees seven cases, bans Nepal Airlines flights from Kathmandu

Hong Kong reported seven new imported Covid-19 cases on Thursday as the government temporarily banned Nepal Airlines flights from Kathmandu. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Centre for Health Protection said the new cases involved a man and a woman from Nepal, two women from Pakistan, two male sea crew members from India, and a woman from Indonesia. The city’s tally stood at 12,359. “Six of the cases involved mutant strains and the viral load of one case is insufficient for a mutation test,” the statement reads. The CHP added that 47 cases were reported from Oct 21 to Nov 3 and all of them were imported. The CHP also said that the two patients from Nepal were passengers of a Nepal Airlines flight from Kathmandu that arrived in Hong Kong on Nov 2. One of them also failed to comply with the requirements of the city’s anti-Covid-19 regulations. Because of this, the Department of Health prohibited the landing of Nepal Airlines passenger flights from Kathmandu from Nov 4 to 17.<br/>