Hong Kong ditches flight suspensions in latest COVID-easing move

Business groups applaud decision, call for end to mandatory hotel quarantines

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Hong Kong's air traffic has plunged in the wake of the pandemic, while mandatory hotel quarantines for visitors have stifled demand for business travel. © Reuters

PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong business groups and the city's flagship airline, Cathay Pacific, on Thursday welcomed the authorities' move to ditch a temporary ban on flights if they were found to be carrying virus-infected passengers.

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