Washington: The United States announced Friday that suspending 44 Chinese passenger flights from America to the Asian giants in response to the strict movement by Beijing on the US protocol under the Covid-19 protocol.
China maintains tight control over border entries including deducted flights and “circuit breaker” policies where routes are stopped if there are too many infections brought to the flight.
China’s flight authority uses a circuit breaker policy to cancel American flights, delta and United Airlines when passengers testing negatively for Covid before taking off and then it is focused on China.
The US Transportation Department wrote in the order of Friday that “acts that disrupt delta operations, America and America as described above are detrimental to public interests and guarantee improvement actions proportional by the department.” “US operators, who follow all relevant Chinese regulations in connection with pre-departure protocols and flights, should not be punished if passengers, post arrivals, then test positive Covid-19,” he said.
Flight 44 is operated by Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines and are scheduled for departure between January 30 and March 29.
This step came less than three weeks before Beijing hosted the winter Olympics.
Chinese capital has suspended thousands of flights and increasing testing after the city recorded the case of its first community from the Omicron variant last weekend.
Chinese officials have pursued a strict “zero-covid” approach with strict border limits and targeted locking – strategies under pressure because some clusters have blazed throughout the country ahead of next month’s match.
Beijing said Biden’s administrative decisions to suspend flights to China as’ unreasonable, tensions between the US and China increased on suspension of flights, China called the Biden Administrative decision to suspend 44 flights to China from the United States who were very unreasonable.
“It doesn’t make sense to the US to suspend China Airlines flights on this land,” Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington told Sputnik.
“We urge the US to stop annoying and limit normal passenger flights operated by the Chinese airline,” Pengyu said.
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We suspended 44 passenger flights to China operated by Chinese operators
