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Shanghai’s Pudong Airport reportedly descended into chaos on Sunday evening after two cargo handlers tested positive, and went into lockdown as nearly 18,000 other staff were tested.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled, according to Reuters, and videos were posted on social media of apparently frightened passengers attempting to flee the airport.

Now new Covid regulations are expected to lead to cargo delays.

According to local media, Chinese health officials claimed the cargo workers, employees of Fedex and UPS, were “cleaning a cargo container ...

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  • Rayhan ahmed

    November 24, 2020 at 8:27 pm

    Sir … we handle air China on the ramp at
    Heathrow and this is again a very disturbing
    Information … I don’t know if Menzies
    Ground handling has been notified at
    Heathrow and WFS who handle there cargo . Pallets , ulds , are a high risk factor were they
    Should disinfected including the cargo holds
    On there Boeing 777S and A330 operating into
    Heathrow or air China should hault there flights
    Into Heathrow by the authority of the EASA and
    The uk CAA . This will end up as a copy cat
    Image of the problems we were facing in
    Sept , Oct , nov , dec of 2019 were it was extremely worrying to work on any aircraft
    Coming from China .