PIA flights bringing passengers from China after coronavirus screening.

KARACHI -- Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday said that the passengers traveling from China to Pakistan on PIA flights have to pass through a complete screening process for coronavirus before leaving the virus-hit country.

A spokesman of the national flag carrier said that it is operating two flights from China in a week including a direct flight from Beijing to Islamabad and the other one connecting Tokyo before landing at the federal capital's airport.

'We are facilitating over 300 passengers in each flight and each passenger is fully screened via infra-red rays for the deadly virus at the Beijing and Tokyo airports,' he said.

The spokesman said that the PIA officials were also supervising the screening process along with the handling agents at the foreign airports.

'The Chinese government is also not allowing any citizen to leave the Beijing airport before passing through the scanning process,' he said.

He said that...