News / Covid panic and delays at Shanghai Airport as cargo workers test positive

24/11/2020

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 .

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