A number of global airlines are still running passenger flights amid the coronavirus pandemic.
That's difficult to find out, but you can check at any airport's website to see how many planes are flying in and out at any given time.
When the BBC checked Heathrow Airport - heathrow.com/departures - on Monday morning, for instance, there were flights scheduled in the following hour or so to Dublin, Copenhagen, Bahrain, Manchester, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Madrid, Hamburg, Moscow, Barcelona, Doha, Berlin, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Valencia, Boston and Stockholm.
You can also see at-a-glance live data of how many flights are in the air at any one time through flight tracker website flightradar24.com. But many flights you see in the sky will be cargo planes. The amount of cargo handling via Heathrow Airport has doubled in recent days, it told the BBC.For example, two-fifths of the UK's pharmaceutical products such as medicines, vaccines and respirators are imported via Heathrow Airport.
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