Following the discovery of five cases positive for covid-19 on an Air France flight between Paris-CDG and Tianjin near Beijing, the Chinese civil aviation authorities have suspended this route for 15 days.
In practice, this decision complies with the rules laid down by the government. The government temporarily bans all airlines carrying passengers testing positive for the coronavirus on a given airline.
Air France will no longer be operating its only weekly flight to Tianjin until early February. However, the airline is continuing to operate its two weekly flights to Shanghai..
For more than a fortnight now, China has been facing a reporting cases of covid-19. On average, it recorded a hundred or so new cases every day. As a precaution, the authorities have re-confined some districts of Beijing.
