Hong Kong’s Airport Authority said airlines would gradually resume flights starting from 6am on Thursday, with all three runways operating simultaneously.
“It is anticipated that flights will be scheduled until late into late night tomorrow, handling over 1,000 flights at the normal level,” it said, adding that it expected airport operations to be busy on Thursday and Friday.
Authorities said they were urgently repairing collapsed roads, trying to clear more than 1,000 fallen trees and respond to around 85 cases of flooding.
TAIWAN REVISES DOWN DEATH TOLL
Taiwan’s fire department on Thursday adjusted the typhoon’s death toll to 14, after putting it at 17 the previous day, saying some casualties had been counted twice.
The deaths happened after Ragasa brought heavy rain to the eastern Hualien county, causing a barrier lake in the mountains to overflow and unleash a wall of water onto the small town of Guangfu.
The fire department put the new number of missing at 33, a figure that had hit 152 on Wednesday, as the government searches for people reported out of contact.
Source: CNA
