CHENGDU: Speculation is rising that China may cancel inbound flights from the UK amid the worsening COVID-19 situation there, after China’s Sichuan Airlines suspended flights on a UK-China route with a stopover in a third country from Wednesday.
Nonetheless, experts expressed confidence in China’s control of imported COVID-19 infections, saying the country is capable of handling any situation, with or without a travel ban.
Compared with the panic and anxiety at the beginning when COVID-19 swept the UK in March, the overseas Chinese community in the UK is responding with a calmer attitude, with many deciding to stay instead of making every effort to return home. Alice Sun, a Chinese working and living in London, told the Global Times on Wednesday that many people chose to stay, considering the infection risk on the trip and limited international flights.
“The COVID-19 resurgence has happened now and then this year … the way back home is not very smooth,” she said. “Although many Chinese are frustrated by not being able to return, they are now getting used to the new normal.”
– The Daily Mail-China Daily News exchange item
