Cathay cabin crew have asked to wear face masks on all flights as China virus spreads.

Video, recorded on Wednesday (January 22), shows flight attendants on a Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong, wearing face masks.

The flight attendants union at Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd asked the airline to let cabin crew wear face masks on all flights over fears of catching the new flu-like coronavirus.

Hong Kong quarantined a 39-year-old man on Wednesday (January 22) after the city's first preliminary positive result in a test for the new coronavirus, authorities said.

As the first cases of Wuhan coronavirus were identified in Hong Kong, flight attendants of Cathay Pacific wear face masks on a plane landing in Hong Kong on 22 January 2020, after their trade unions obtained this right from the company. In Hong Kong, a much decried law taken under emergency regulations criminalizes the wearing of face masks, while this practice is considered as the main prevention against respiratory diseases since the emergence of SARS in 2003.