<Anchor>

As Beijing City of China banned all international flights from yesterday (23rd) saying it would stop Corona 19 from entering, Korean Air decided to temporarily suspend the route. This is the reason why passengers will have to go through different cities, which will make passengers feel uncomfortable.

Correspondent Song Wook from Beijing.

<Reporter>

Korean Air will stop operating flights between Incheon and Beijing from the 28th to the 25th of the following month.

The decision was made by the Chinese government to quarantine all international flights to Beijing at other airports in China, and then to bring passengers with no suspected corona19 to Beijing.

[Shen Xiaohua / Deputy Director of China Civil Aviation Administration: From 23rd (Yesterday)), all international flights to Beijing must first pass through one of the 12 city airports in China. ]

Korean Air explained the background of the suspension, saying that passengers were inconvenient because they could wait more than 7 hours in Qingdao, a quarantine station.

Asiana Airlines via Dalian first canceled flights to Beijing on the 26th and 28th.

If both airlines cease operating, only the Chinese airlines Air China and Southern China will remain on the Seoul-Beijing route.

Since the outbreak of Corona 19, the number of flights operated by the Korea-China route has decreased by more than 90% from 1,200 flights per week to 100 times.

Meanwhile, except for one newly confirmed corona19 in China in the past five days, all cases have been counted as cases of overseas inflow.

However, there are 43,000 cases of asymptomatic infections that are not included in the official statistics of Chinese diagnosed patients, and cases of positive reactions after being discharged after being discharged from Hebei Province have been reported.