Hong Kong to finish obligatory resort quarantine for vacationers: What this implies | World News

Hong Kong’s chief introduced town would not require incoming vacationers to quarantine in designated resorts as town seeks to open up globally after practically two years.

Incoming vacationers can even not want a unfavorable PCR check inside 48 hours earlier than boarding a aircraft to Hong Kong, town's chief government John Lee mentioned Friday at a information convention. As a substitute, they might want to current a unfavorable outcome from a speedy antigen check, performed 24 hours earlier than their flight.

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The measures will come into impact Monday.

“Whereas we are able to management the pattern of the epidemic, we should permit the utmost room to permit connectivity with the world, in order that we are able to have financial momentum and to cut back inconvenience to arriving vacationers,” mentioned Lee, who additionally mentioned that authorities won't roll again the measures introduced Friday.

He mentioned that there have to be a “steadiness between dangers and financial development."