China’s COVID-19-Hit Shenzhen Suspends Direct Flights to Beijing

Travellers are seen at the Beijing Daxing International Airport on the first day of Labour Day holiday, in Beijing, China, on May 1, 2021. Tingshu Wang/File Photo/Reuters

SHENZHEN, China—Direct flights from the southern city of Shenzhen to Beijing have been suspended until at least July 1, booking apps showed, ahead of celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party’s founding in the capital on that date.

China’s most populous province Guangdong is battling a COVID-19 outbreak, with 170 confirmed local cases between May 21 and June 21. No new confirmed local cases were reported for June 22.