China’s busiest airport grinds to a halt


Operations halted: A view of the empty Terminal One, which mostly caters to domestic flights, in Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport.

GUANGZHOU: China’s busiest airport, which handled 40 million passengers last year, has come to a standstill after several workers went down with Covid-19.

Areas around the Baiyun International Airport, as well as nearby residential neighbourhoods where most airport staff and airline workers live, have been placed under a lockdown.

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