The CEO of Ethiopia\u2019s flag carrier, Ethiopian Airlines (ET) Tewolde Gebremariam on Wednesday said stopping flights to China is not a solution to fight novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the 5th Africa Aviation conference being held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Gebremariam said the novel coronavirus transmission won\u2019t be prevented by stopping direct flights to China.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlying direct to China doesn\u2019t mean we will stop novel coronavirus, because passengers from China can travel to African countries including Ethiopia through various other hubs. That\u2019s what the interconnected world means.\u201d CONTINUE READING<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethiopian Airlines has no plans to suspend service to China cgtn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ethiopian_Airlines_Wikimedia.jpg?fit=2824%2C1884&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1i8k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308036"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308090,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308036\/revisions\/308090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}