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The central quarantine site at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in the Pudong New Area will be put into use soon, local officials said. The site, the biggest quarantine venue in Shanghai yet, is expected to have up to 15,000 beds and will be used for people with mild COVID-19 symptoms and asymptomatic infections. … Read more

A full Shanghai lockdown will be imposed on Pudong and Puxi in turn for a new round of citywide nucleic acid testing from Monday morning, the city government announced on Sunday night. From 5am on Monday, a lockdown will first be imposed on Pudong, Punan and adjacent areas (including the Pudong New Area, Fengxian, Jinshan … Read more

Shanghai authorities have announced that 1 PCR testing or 1 Antigen test will be required for residents in multiple communities from Saturday (March 26) to Monday (March 28). In addition, residents are urged to follow the guide and reduce outdoor time. Areas covered are as follows: District Lockdown & 1 PCR TestFrom Saturday 00:00 AM … Read more

Residents in Shanghai who have not had a PCR test since March 16 will have their health code turn yellow starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, according to the local administration. People with a yellow health code will be unable to access several websites and use a variety of services. Since March 16, the city … Read more

Following the article regarding “International Flights to Shanghai to be diverted”, China Eastern has listed 14 out of the 22 impacted routes. The list of the remaining 8 routes of diverted Shanghai flights is as follows: Air China (2 routes): Flight Initial Route New Route CA930 Tokyo——–>Shanghai Tokyo——–>Taiyan CA936 Frankfurt——–>Shanghai Frankfurt——–>Chongqing Juneyao Airlines (3 routes): … Read more

Ever since I published the article about International flights to Shanghai to be diverted, people have been asking several questions about this subject. Therefore, I compiled the following FAQ based on the feedback collected. Do we have a list of those international flights that will be diverted and where will they be diverted to? A … Read more

Following the article regarding “International Flights to Shanghai to be diverted”, China Eastern made an announcement (in Chinese) in which they listed the 14 impacted routes The list of flights is as follows: Flight Initial Route New Route MU588 New York——–>Shanghai New York——–>Fuzhou MU208 Toronto——–>Shanghai Toronto——–>Hangzhou MU772 Amsterdam——–>Shanghai Amsterdam——–>Chengdu MU570 Paris——–>Shanghai Paris——–>Taiyuan MU220 Frankfurt——–>Shanghai Frankfurt——–>Chengdu … Read more

In order to ease the pressure of epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai, the State Council decided to adjust some inbound international passenger flights to Shanghai from March 21 to May 1. 106 flights on 22 routes involving Air China, China Eastern, Shanghai Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Spring Airlines are impacted. Entry point for the … Read more

As a result of Air France suspending services to Ukraine, Russia as well as the overflight of Russian airspace until further notice, a new flight schedule to/from China was released and it is as follows: Route Flight Departure Date & Time (Local Time) Paris——–>Tianjin AF382 (*) Thursdays 8:30 PM Beijing——–>Paris AF383 (*) Saturdays 11:50 PM … Read more

The long-awaited schedule of UK-China Direct flights is finally out on Virgin Atlantic’s Official WeChat account: At the same time, Virgin Atlantic compiled the following travel information for your reference and strongly recommend that you pay attention to the travel policy updates between China and the UK, to prepare the necessary travel documents in advance … Read more