Pakistan halts flight service to and from China with immediate effect
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday halted flights to and from China with immediate effect, a civil aviation official said, as the death toll from a virus outbreak spreading in China mounted and the World Health Organisation called it a global health emergency.
“We are suspending flights to China until Feb 2,” additional secretary of aviation Abdul Sattar Khokhar told *Reuters *by phone, adding the situation would be reviewed after that date. He declined to comment on the reason for the closure.
Some airlines, including British Airways, have suspended flights to China due to warnings of the coronavirus outbreak. Germany, Britain and other countries have issued warnings about travel to China.
Russia also sealed its remote far-eastern border with China as a precaution on Thursday.
Some countries have banned entry for travellers from Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus first surfaced.
