Top Chinese airline halts UK flights over highly contagious Covid-19 mutation

China’s biggest airline, China Southern Airlines, has suspended its upcoming flights to and from London in response to a strain of Covid-19 that has been rapidly spreading.

China Southern Airlines will suspend its London flights – which it runs once a week – between December 24 and January 7 for “preventative reasons” to stop the UK’s mutated Covid-19 variant from reaching its shores.…

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