Beijing time:2021-12-28 11:55
[NTD News December 28, 2021 Beijing time]The CCP virus variant Omicron is raging around the world. During the second Christmas period under the epidemic, thousands of international flights around the world were cancelled. Watch the report.
Due to the surge in Omicron coronavirus cases, according to statistics from the aviation information website FlightAware, on Monday (December 27) alone, more than 2,000 flights were cancelled worldwide. In the past Christmas weekend during the peak travel period, more than 4,000 flights were cancelled.
Among them, Chinese airlines canceled the most flights: China Eastern Airlines cancelled about 540 flights, which was more than a quarter of its scheduled departures, while Air China cancelled 267 flights, which was close to a quarter of its scheduled departures. one.
On Monday morning, 700 flights into and out of the United States were cancelled, and more than 3,000 flights were delayed.
Since Christmas Eve, more than 6,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide due to airline staff and crew members taking sick leave.
In the past week, the average daily number of new cases in the United States has risen by 45% to 179,000. So far, the CCP virus has caused more than 5.3 million deaths worldwide.
NTD reporter Ke Tingting reports from New York
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