The United States had 2,604 cancelled flights, more than half of the 4,529 cancelled worldwide, shortly after 4.30 pm, according to tracking website FlightAware.
China ended its final week of 2021 with its biggest tally of local coronavirus cases for any seven-day period since subduing the country's first epidemic nearly two years ago, despite some of the world's toughest Covid-19 measures. The city, under lockdown for ten days as of today, has reported 1,451 local symptomatic cases since 9 December, the highest tally for any Chinese city in 2021.
Since August, China has tried to get any outbreak under control within about two weeks, much shorter than the four to six weeks in earlier battles against sporadic flare-ups following the initial nationwide epidemic, according to the National Health Commission. Many people have been forbidden from leaving their residential compounds, but a city government official said yesterday curbs would be loosened in less risky compounds when the time was right.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed curbs such as limits on numbers allowed to gather, nightclub closures and social distancing measures in pubs. "Numbers in intensive care units are stable and not currently following the trajectory we saw this time last year during the Alpha wave," he wrote.
Bit cold in the US nice in Florida and Texas ....
Or maybe they banned unvaccinated pilots and all the vaccinated pilots are dead BloodCloth