{"id":1027064,"date":"2021-11-18T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027064"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:58:48","slug":"beijing-limits-domestic-flights-into-city-citing-coronavirus-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-limits-domestic-flights-into-city-citing-coronavirus-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Limits Domestic Flights into City Citing Coronavirus &#039;Risk&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeijing-limits-domestic-flights-into-city-citing-coronavirus-risk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The government of Beijing, China\u2019s national capital, announced Tuesday that it would cancel or limit flights into the city from other Chinese regions battling high daily rates of coronavirus for an indefinite amount of time, the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1239137.shtml\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlights to Beijing from the capitals of provincial-level regions that have middle- or high-risk areas for COVID-19 [coronavirus] will be limited to one per day with less than 75 percent occupancy,\u201d Beijing government officials said at a press conference on November 16.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFlights to Beijing from cities that have middle- or high-risk areas are all canceled for now,\u201d Ren Chaozhong, an official for the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said at the news conference.<\/p>\n<p>People who have recently traveled to Chinese regions that reported new coronavirus cases in the past 14 days \u201cor to counties with land ports\u201d are barred from entering Beijing beginning Wednesday, according to the city\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting from Tuesday at midnight, any person who enters or returns to Beijing must present a negative nucleic acid testing result taken within 48 hours and a green health code,\u201d Beijing government spokesman Xu Hejian told reporters at the November 16 news conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18804866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1338691795.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18804866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1338691795-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People stand in front of a sculpture celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Beijing Daxing International Airport on September 06, 2021 in Beijing, China. The 100th anniversary was celebrated on July 1. (Andrea Verdelli\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beijing is governed as a municipality directly by China\u2019s State Council, or chief administrative authority. The densely populated metropolis is home to nearly 21 million people, meaning it is extremely vulnerable to the nation\u2019s latest coronavirus epidemic, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/11\/coronavirus-china-marathon-olympics\/\">began<\/a>&nbsp;on October 17. Beijing designated two of its own districts as \u201cmiddle-risk areas\u201d for coronavirus as of November 16.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing health officials ordered surprise lockdowns for several housing compounds and other public spaces in the city\u2019s central districts of Chaoyang, Haidian, and Dongcheng on November 11 after allegedly detecting a handful of new coronavirus cases in the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive residential communities, a primary school and two office compounds were placed under snap lockdowns early Thursday, [November 11] with tens of thousands of residents barred from leaving and made to undergo mass testing,\u201d Agence France-Presse (AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/beijing-seals-off-mall-housing-compounds-after-virus-cases-found\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLive streams on local media of the areas under lockdown showed staff in hazmat suits piling up bags of food for residents stuck inside,\u201d the news agency observed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18804898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234600387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18804898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234600387-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People with face masks and protective gear stand by an exit at Beijings Capital international airport on August 10, 2021. ( JADE GAO\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also on November 11, the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/beijing-city-imposes-covid-restrictions-conferences-events-2021-11-11\/\">announced<\/a> restrictions on in-person conferences and events citing the city\u2019s rising coronavirus caseload.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConferences and events should be held via video whenever possible, and the size of offline events should be minimized,\u201d Pang Xinghuo, vice director at the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, told reporters at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing health officials said they did not document any new coronavirus infections in the city on November 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Beijing, China\u2019s national capital, announced Tuesday that it would cancel or limit flights into the city from other Chinese regions battling high daily rates of coronavirus for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}