The Chinese authorities have announced today the suspension of the air link between Portugal and China, for a period of two weeks, after detecting seven cases of Covid-19, on May 14th, on a flight from Lisbon.
In a statement posted on its official website, the Civil Aviation Administration of China reported that the flight between Lisbon and the Chinese city of Xi'an, operated by Beijing Capital Airlines, will be suspended from May 31st.
"After the suspension period, the operation can be resumed, with the frequency of one flight per week", reads the same note.
The Asian country, where Covid-19 emerged in December 2019, was the first to contain the outbreak, which is why it has come to fear a resurgence due to cases from abroad, especially Chinese trying to return to the country.
Chinese authorities cut air connections to the outside in late March last year as the new coronavirus spread across the world. Beijing Capital Airlines resumed the flight between Portugal and China at the end of last August, 2020.
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