ISLAMABAD: Airlines in Pakistan resumed flights to and from China on Monday (Feb 3) after health authorities said they were confident they had systems in place to keep the coronavirus epidemic out of the country. "Flight operations with China have resumed," Zafar Mirza, a public health advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan, told reporters Monday. So far there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Pakistan, but four students living in Wuhan have been infected. There are currently more than two dozen weekly flights between Pakistan and China, civil aviation authority spokesman Abdul Sattar Khokhar said. Prime Minister Khan has visited China three times since taking office in 2018, and has repeatedly refused to criticise Beijing when asked about the country's treatment of its Muslim minorities.

Source: The Star February 03, 2020 14:23 UTC