Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that Hong Kong wants to loosen Covid regulations like the obligatory hotel quarantine that have made travel challenging for almost three years.
According to Lee, who spoke to reporters at a weekly conference, the number of infections in the Asian financial center has decreased to around 6,000 per day, allowing for a reevaluation of the policies that have hampered the city’s competitiveness. The South China Morning Post said that the seven-day home health monitoring period will take the place of hotel quarantine, but that the change won’t be published until all the specifics are worked out.
Despite their adherence to a zero tolerance policy toward the virus, policymakers in mainland China appear to have given the preparations their OK. Huang Liuquan, deputy director of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, stated at a separate briefing in Beijing that China supports Hong Kong’s attempts to have close, wide communication with the rest of the world and sees no issue with changing its rules.
As a number of big profile international events are about to start in late October, Hong Kong residents have been hoping that travel restrictions, such as hotel quarantine rules and pre-flight PCR testing, will be loosened. Visitors that the city’s leaders hope to draw have said that if the limitations were too stringent, they wouldn’t visit.
Hong Kong will cut Hotel Quarantine, report says
Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that Hong Kong wants to loosen Covid regulations like the obligatory hotel quarantine that have made travel challenging for almost three years.
According to Lee, who spoke to reporters at a weekly conference, the number of infections in the Asian financial center has decreased to around 6,000 per day, allowing for a reevaluation of the policies that have hampered the city’s competitiveness. The South China Morning Post said that the seven-day home health monitoring period will take the place of hotel quarantine, but that the change won’t be published until all the specifics are worked out.
Despite their adherence to a zero tolerance policy toward the virus, policymakers in mainland China appear to have given the preparations their OK. Huang Liuquan, deputy director of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, stated at a separate briefing in Beijing that China supports Hong Kong’s attempts to have close, wide communication with the rest of the world and sees no issue with changing its rules.
As a number of big profile international events are about to start in late October, Hong Kong residents have been hoping that travel restrictions, such as hotel quarantine rules and pre-flight PCR testing, will be loosened. Visitors that the city’s leaders hope to draw have said that if the limitations were too stringent, they wouldn’t visit.