The long-awaited move will bring relief to residents and businesses clamouring for the Asian business hub to rejoin the rest of the world in resuming unhindered travel and living with the coronavirus.
Chief Executive John Lee said the current three days of hotel quarantine would be reduced to zero for those arriving from overseas and Taiwan. Since that wave, the number of local infections far outweighed those coming in from overseas but authorities still stuck with quarantine rules.The city is currently in a technical recession -- two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
But it is unlikely Hong Kong will suddenly see a flurry of new flights. Many global airlines have reduced routes or simply stopped flying there in the past two years. But as an international hub, it always struggled to keep the virus out indefinitely and could not resort to the kind of city-wide lockdowns used on the authoritarian mainland.
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