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The Chinese Embassy in Kenya says all flights from China won’t access the Kenyan airspace “until further notice”.
In a tweet on their official page on Friday, February 28, the Embassy said the decision to suspend the flights was arrived at due to a “decreasing volume of passenger flow from Guangzhou and Changsha to Nairobi”.
The announcement by the Chinese Embassy comes a few hours after High Court Judge James Makau issued orders barring Chinese planes from entering the country until a suit filed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) is heard and determined.
The LSK — in their petition — argued that the world is in a global health crisis, and other countries have resorted to taking precaution by blocking Chinese aircrafts from accessing their airports, and Kenya, according to the petitioner, shouldn’t be an exemption.
On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in Kenya — in a statement — stated that the China Southern Airlines Company Limited had reduced its flights from Guangzhou to Nairobi from three to only one flight per week until March 25, 2020.
