HONG KONG — Hong Kong will cut mandatory hotel quarantines for overseas arrivals from a week to three days, city leaders said on Monday.
A city in southern China is one of the few places in the world alongside mainland China to require quarantine to protect a traveler from spreading her COVID-19 to locals. I'm doing it. The policy, which takes effect on Friday, will be the shortest quarantine for Hong Kong arrivals since the pandemic began.
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Hong Kong leader John Lee said arriving travelers would be quarantined at a designated hotel for three days, followed by four days of medical observation, during which , said that movement is limited by use. of the health code system.
Lee said a new policy of just three days of quarantine was created after scientific evidence and data were analyzed to control risk factors.
"We must also balance the risks to Hong Kong's economic activity and social life," Li said.
"[The data] show that the risk factors for people who have completed three days of quarantine in a given hotel are really just the level of contagion risk in society," he said. said.
The change in COVID-19 policy comes despite an increase in the number of daily infections, with city health officials saying he could double to 8,000 in the coming weeks. I am warning you.
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During his week of quarantine and surveillance, the traveler regularly tested her for COVID-19. should be received and infected persons should be quarantined.
People with negative test results can use public transportation, visit shopping malls and markets, but can enter bars and amusement parks, visit nursing homes, schools, and certain medical services. You cannot visit the facility.
At most of the pandemic, Hong Kong has imposed some of the toughest her COVID-19 entry restrictions in the world. At one point, Hong Kong called for mandatory hotel quarantines for travelers for up to 21 days and a 'circuit breaker' mechanism that would ban certain airlines from flying into the city if there were too many COVID-19 cases. Did.
These measures have devastated the city's tourism industry and disrupted business travel in a city known as an international financial center and business hub.
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Pandemic Hundreds of thousands of residents have left Hong Kong since the outbreak began. Many businesses have also moved to countries like Singapore, where quarantine-free travel has resumed. Please contact
