China offers experimental COVID-19 vaccine to aviation sector employees: Report

China has reportedly offered dos of experimental coronavirus vaccines to aviation industry workers to prevent a possible resurgence of COVID-19 amid reopening of businesses. China has alrey started an emergency vaccination programme for high-risk groups including border inspectors and frontline medical workers.

Frontline workers at Chinese airlines, airports, China National Aviation Fuel Group and TravelSky Techlogy Limited will reportedly be immunised using experimental vaccine on a voluntary basis. According to reports, Civil Aviation ministration of China has asked companies to submit a list of employees willing to take vaccine which is still undergoing human trial.

decision to iculate aviation sector employees has reportedly been taken to prevent a possible second wave of coronavirus infections. China has allowed international flights to and from Beijing after nearly six months of gap when most of countries are witnessing a second wave of pandemic.

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Flights resumption

International flights from eight countries, including its “all-wear ally” Pakistan, will be allowed from Thursday. Or countries from where flights will be allowed are Thailand and Cambodia in Asia; Greece, Denmark, Austria and Sweden in Europe and Cana in rth America, as re has been less number of imported cases from se countries, according to Beijing.

All international flights bound for Beijing were being rerouted to or Chinese cities to prevent imported COVID-19 cases. first direct international flight to Beijing will be operated by Air China which will depart from Phm Penh, Cambodia’s capital, on September 3. inbound travellers will have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine. 

Beijing health department spokesperson Gao Xiaojun told a press conference that quarantined travellers under medical observations will have to take nucleic acid tests twice. Meanwhile, China’s National Health Commission anunced 11 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, ding that all were imported. total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China w stands at 85,066, while death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.

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(Representational Im: AP)