CSA suspends services to Pakistan in fear of coronavirus.

ISLAMABAD -- China Southern Airlines (CSA) has suspended its operation to Lahore till Jan 29 and to Islamabad till 28 due to the Chinese New Year.

A Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) official said the suspension of operations by the CSA had nothing to do with the new deadly virus as the flights were suspended due to passenger load on the eve of the Chinese New Year.

However, flight operations of the PIA will continue.

On the other hand, the CAA has intensified checking at all international airports across the country by introducing new screening measures to prevent and detect recently discovered coronavirus, which first emerged in China, from entering the country though air travellers.

A spokesman for the CAA said in a press release that the measures focussed on screening all passengers coming from China to Islamabad through 17 weekly flights for possible symptoms that the deadly virus caused.

At Islamabad International Airport (IIA), every passenger from a China flight will have to go through health counters set up by the CAA, at the airport's arrival level 2, where a doctor...