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Hong Kong hopes to 'resolve' Covid flight-ban rule as cases ease

Travellers wearing face masks queue at the check-in counters of the Hong Kong International Airport amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in Hong Kong on Monday. (Reuters photo)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is looking to resolve a problem over a ban on airlines which bring in Covid-positive passengers as it eases travel curbs that have sealed off the city for two years, its leader said on Wednesday

The government said this week a ban on flights from nine countries - Canada, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Britain, the United States, France, Australia and the Philippines - would be lifted on April 1 but it was not clear if airlines would face a two-week ban if they bring in infected people, as is currently the case.

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