1.1k shares They apply to the flights departing from places with an infection rate of higher than 500 people per million, the official document says. This means that China-bound flights from the United States, Sweden, Lithuania, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Georgia fall under the category as of writing, according to data from John Hopkins University. Although such a directive may seem dramatic, it is by no means new. Chinese flight crews have been ordered to follow the advice since at least March when the CAAC released the third edition of the guideline to tackle growing global cases. Chinese flight crews have been ordered to follow the advice by authorities since at least March