Hong Kong sees influx of Chinese visitors as borders reopen fully

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HONG KONG, Feb 6 — Tens of thousands of travellers commuted between mainland China and its special administrative region of Hong Kong on Monday, authorities said, the first time...

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HONG KONG, Feb 6 — Tens of thousands of travellers commuted between mainland China and its special administrative region of Hong Kong on Monday, authorities said, the first time in three years that all border checkpoints were reopened fully without Covid-19 restrictions.

Around 22,000 passengers used the Lo Wu station checkpoint by midday on Monday, Hong Kong’s MTR Corp said in a statement. Lo Wu was one of three of Hong Kong’s border checkpoints that had not yet reopened. Outside the Shenzhen checkpoint were hundreds of red lanterns and large red banners celebrating the resumption of travel between the two cities.“I am so happy that I am back to the motherland,” one said, while another said, “We are free”.

Hong Kong was largely sealed off behind closed borders for much of the past three years in a bid to ward off Covid, with mandatory quarantine of up to three weeks for people arriving as well as intensive testing and screening.

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