Hong Kong to lift ban on flights from nine countries, including PH in April


HONG KONG, China - Hong Kong will resume international flights from nine countries including the United States and Britain in April, city leader Carrie Lam said Monday.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)


"From April 1, Hong Kong government will remove flight bans on nine countries," she said, lifting restrictions that have been in place since early January, when the Omicron variant first emerged in the finance hub.

The United States, Britain, France and Australia were among the nine countries on the list.