Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said it was not the time to lift a ban on flights from nine countries including the United States and Britain, with plans to reopen the city only after the government controls a deepening coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports.
The global financial hub has some of the most draconian restrictions in place to combat a surge in coronavirus cases that has seen the city suffer the most deaths globally per million people in the week to March 7, according to the Our World in Data publication.
Total infections have surged to about 600,000, including more than 2,800 deaths — most in the past two weeks.
